Spring Running Thread

[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.

[OakLeaf]

We actually left for Boston before the hot weather hit at home, hopefully the rain will be done by the time we get back, and it should be more spring-like. With the rain and then drier weather, it should be good mushroom hunting this weekend!

This year the Marathon was commemorating the 50th anniversary of women running, and I thought it was extra fitting that it's the 50th anniversary of Bobbi Gibb's bandit run and not Kathrine Switzer's sneaky registration the following year. At first I thought it was odd to commemorate a bandit, then I realized it just shows the continued importance of civil disobedience in establishing the rights of marginalized people.