Mission Accomplished: 3:19 & a Guiness

October 27, 2009

Yesterday I completed the Dublin Marathon. When you think about 26.2-miles – that’s how far you can travel in a car in 20min, a gazelle can run the 42k in about 30min, professional runners (at least men) can cover it just over 2-hours, and it takes me about 3-hours 19-minutes (give or take). Somewhere between twenty and twenty-two [...]

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Final Taper for the Dublin Marathon

October 19, 2009

Today marks 6-days until the Dublin Marathon. I’ve put in the 60-mile weeks and several 20+ mile runs. I’m pretty close to race weight. Of course, there are a few aches that will welcome a couple weeks vacation post-marathon and I need to avoid the seasonal bugs & swine flu over the next week, overall [...]

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