Sunday we headed down to Boston to pace and support John O'Connor during his Quad Boston run. I got in two 13 mile runs in a 10 hour period between 10:45pm and 8:45am during John's middle two marathons. His motivation and determination was truly inspiring to witness and I was honored to play a small part in helping him achieve his goal.
More on those runs later. For the sake of record keeping here's what I got up to recently on the running front.
Wednesday I ran from work for a little more than one lap of Back Cove. I was feeling good enough to go fairly quick but not for very long, still getting caught up from Sunday night's all-nighter.
time: 33:01
distance: 4.44 miles
pace: 7:26 (7:12 fastest mile)
Thursday I went out for the basic two lap run from work at as easier pace.
time: 57:25
distance: 7.47 miles
pace: 7:41
This weekend I plan to do a short (8 mile) easy (9:30 pace) run at Pineland on Saturday and then run my ass off at the Muddy Moose Trail Race on Sunday. I've heard a report that despite the recent rain we got here on the coast of Maine that the trails in Wolfeboro, NH are pretty dry. This comes as a bit of a dissapointment since the main reason for doing this race is the mud, but I guess it means we all should be logging faster times. The one thing that scares me is the potential for hot weather. I haven't run in temps above 52 degrees inthe past 5 months and it looks like it will be in the high 70's on Sunday. Better than the high of 81 that I saw a few days ago...
We've got a good team of Trail Monsters going to the race this weekend which should be a lot of fun.
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hey ian, easier to get you at trail monsters than on your e-mail! What do you think about August as a time to visit? There's a lot of things we have to work round in Sept and Oct.
I hope Gnarls is still running well and that you have fun at the Muddy Moose.
We're heading off west for a week or so. Should be good if the weather behaves itself.
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