MEC 7 42.2km Marathon, October 22nd 2016 !
There you go, I committed to run my first Marathon before I turn 40 and I did it !! Somehow I got in my head a 3:10:00 as my goal and made it! with a finish time of 3:07:58 I am now an official Boston Marathon Qualifier !!! 10 weeks ago when I decided to sign up for this Marathon I ramped up my training and started to put in more distance and intensity. I hooked up with Ryan Twa and he kindly invited me to run with his team, some weird workouts, but since I am not to picky with that, they all fit my needs ! We also live close to each other, so commuting to and from work was something that worked out ok for both #@#@#$ One of the training days (the longest I ran) was a 27km with an average pace of 4:40min/km. Early morning 7.30AM on a snowy day ! sloshy and cold brrrr The weekend prior to my race I decided to take it easy, and rested well on Saturday, however did a stupid dirt bike ride of 4 hours on Sunday that beat me up pretty bad.... my ...