It’s not likely
to be pretty, but I’m in. The Brooklyn Marathon 2015 http://bit.ly/1VXZSx7. That’s Sunday, Nov. 15.
And no I haven’t put in enough miles (but I’ve got 60 days to rectify that
somewhat.) I tried a less demanding “cruising” training program last year in
preparation for the Nova Scotia Marathon in July. It didn’t work for a terrific
time – my slowest since I got back on the marathon kick five and a half years
ago with the Pittsburgh Marathon. But I finished, and damn it that’s what I’m
going for this year. In Brooklyn, my own backyard.
Training is going
much better than I expected – considering the hamstring pull that flared up during
our July trip to Paris and Marseille – so the marathon plan is back on in
earnest.
Brooklyn 2015
takes me around my regular jogging route, the round interior pathways of
Prospect Park, but instead of, say, going around two times, I’ll be going six times,
as well as other shorter laps that’ll get us up to a Boston Marathon-qualifying
26.2 miles.
As for being
Boston strong … Well, as of Oct. 5 I’ll be sixty, so that’ll help some – I need
to get a finish time of 3:55. We’ll just have to see. As to the New York City
Marathon, I would need to hit a time of 3:34. Which is just not going to
happen. (My PB is 3:33:52 at 2010 Steamtown Marathon of Scranton, Pa., when I'd recently turned 55.)
So, yeah, here
goes nothing. My ninth marathon, sixth since Pittsburgh in May 2010.
And if you’re in the ’hood on Nov. 15, c’mon out to the park. When you’re
running around in circles, chances are you’ll see me. More often than perhaps
you’ll like.
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