This is my first blog, and it is about what I do when I am not being a dad, a husband, or a working guy. I run.
I am 42 years old, a happy father of a four year boy, well married for the last 14 years, and the greenhouse manager for a perennial farm. I can claim to have been a runner for the last 27 years, but I have really only been running seriously for the last seven years.
Being a runner clears my head, and gives me something focus on that does not involve any responsibilities to anyone else but myself. I have been running road races since 1996, and ran my first marathon in 1999. One marathon a year was my original goal, but marathon #2 did not happen until October 2003 at the Hartford Marathon. I qualified for Boston at Hartford and ran Boston this past April. The temperature soared to 86 F that day, but I ran well any way finishing in 3:20 (chip time).
Now I am in a routine that has me running two marathons a year. This past October I returned to Hartford and made attempt at a 3:00 marathon. I was on track until mile 18, then things got ugly. My legs abandoned me at the end, but I managed to stay in the race and finished in 3:09:01. This was a few seconds faster than the previous years run, and is now my new PR.
I am presently training for my fifth marathon, and my second Boston . I plan on using this Blog to record my thoughts on running, and some account of the runs themselves. I can report that this week is not looking too promising from a training perspective. It is Wednesday night and I have not run since Sunday morning. Tomorow I will be at the Y running no where fast on a tread mill.
Life is fun. We will see if reading and writing about life is fun also.
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