Comments on: Qualification Odyssey

By: Zero to Boston – The Other Shoe Drops

Zero to Boston – The Other Shoe Drops — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:20:48 +0000

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By: Viper

Viper — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:34:17 +0000

“If I told you how many senior citizens have passed me in the upper miles of marathons, I’d be too depressed to write.”

Reminds me of the guy who looked like he was 101 years old and dressed in a Super Man outfit who passed me at mile 19 in Akron last year.

Congrats again. Boston’s less than a month away. Good luck!

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:18:09 +0000

Congrats on BQing. I liked your report on Myrtle. I whole-heartedly agree. About the best thing you can say is that it’s flat. Otherwise, I was duly unimpressed.

By: russ # 191

russ # 191 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:08:33 +0000

Congrats, Maniac!
My experience is not so good, I missed BQ by under 2 minutes, then developed a problem with my foot and haven’t been able to train much, and may never be able to.
My wife BQ’ed without really training at all, then developed a stress fracture. Buh.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:12:08 +0000

great, great report. the perfect diversion from actual work, only by the end i had gotten a little teary eyed with joy for you and had to make it look like i got an eyelash in my eye or something.

“Three years, seven months, ten days, twenty-two hours, fifteen minutes, and several seconds.”

can’t tell you how encouraging this is as i am coming up on exactly two years in my quest. but during this time, i entered a new age group which added 5 more minutes onto my qualifying time. maybe the 4th time will be the charm.

congratulations again! – suzanne

By: Bob Sanders

Bob Sanders — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:10:23 +0000

Congrats Dean! I’m very happy for you.

Remember, Always speed up before giving in to slowing down.

BobS

By: Don Pattison

Don Pattison — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:54:36 +0000

I love your breakdown of the miles. I didn’t have a Ms Pink to follow in New Orleans last year but I did have a Ms Black. It took my mind off pretty much everything. It was cool that your family was there to watch too.

By: Brian the Red

Brian the Red — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:56:33 +0000

“some unwitting member of Red Sox Nation”

Hey, I resemble that remark.

I’ll give you $16.50 for it right now, if you run the Boston Marathon in it the price drops to under $15.

By: Paul Comar

Paul Comar — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:34:49 +0000

Now you just are a runnin’ fool, aren’t you? Shaving an hour+ between marathon 1&2. And 4 marathons over the last 4 months topped w/Black Mountain? Ouch! Weather gods blessed us at Myrtle, but I also suffered most (and doubted a BQ) at mile 19, wind and some ups and downs as I recall. Or simply expecting the turn inland that seemed like it shoulda come earlier? Don’t feel bad about mile 7 or euphoric about your mile 8 6:52 pace. I logged a 56 second difference between the two (8:57 vs 8:03) – marker was WAY off. I had the ‘official’ marathonguide wrist band – for 8:33 splits, and logged quite a few of them thank you very much, averaging 8:35 to qualify. Hey-I’m Old! “I’m Going to Boston” (in’09) -Paul

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:26:21 +0000

Not yet he didn’t.

- Dean

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:15:00 +0000

Oh, you ran the marathon? Didn’t some 101 year old man do that?

By: Marlene

Marlene — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:35:14 +0000

I loved reading every word!

Man, I feel so silly for posting my “splits (can I even use that term when I’m such an amateur? lol) on my “report”…

Anyway, you inspire me!