Spring Running Thread

[Pax]

Go Oak!!! Wishing you all the best today.

[rocknrollgirl]

Go Oak!!! Wishing you all the best today.

She is doing great, through the 25k mark, still holding a great pace!!!

Go Oak!!

[Pax]

Looks like she finished! Way to go Oak!!

[OakLeaf]

Thanks all! I was very happy to finish, and re-qualified with a decent margin. Even if I'm still healthy next year I'm not sure I really want to run another spring marathon, it's a huge hassle with the move and all, but just qualifying is a milestone in itself. The Achilles is a little iffy right now but the other ankle held up fine, and I'm feeling much better after doing a yin yoga video. Thinking about going back downstairs for dessert.

[rocknrollgirl]

Congrats Oak. My two friends that ran said it was warm and windy , so great job. I hope the Achilles feels better soon. Do you move every winter?

[OakLeaf]

The weather was kind of a double-edged sword, and I'm pretty sure people who started in earlier waves would've had it a lot rougher than I did. It was very hot at the staging area in Hopkinton, but the wind turned within my first 5K and the temperature dropped by 10 degrees almost immediately, nearly 20 degrees by the time I finished. I definitely noticed the wind in places - actually more so than I did last year, even though the recorded wind speed was less - but since the wind brought the cool ocean temperature, I thought it was a net benefit. Having trained in heat definitely helped too.

Yep, we head south every winter. There are pros and cons, but not having to try to run on slush-narrowed roads in February is huge! Hope your other friends had good races, too.

[Pax]

Be glad you headed home when you did, it's actually warmer in the upper Midwest than it is here. It's been cool and tremendously windy here the last couple of weeks.