Boston Marathon
As much as I love trail racing and the ultra marathon distances, I’ve always felt like I had unfinished business with the road marathon. I just never could put it all together and run a time I was happy with. So in May of last year I ran “one last marathon” near the Koepke’s home town in Minnesota. The plan was to run a 2:49 and then retire from road marathons forever, but once again, I had a few mishaps, some unseasonable warmth, and ran 2:54. So I signed up for Boston 2018 to get my 2:49 at the legendary race, and retire with a bang. However, as chronicled within the race reports on this blog, my training took a nosedive somewhere around last fall and hasn’t recovered. I thought I’d come back from New Zealand in February and get back to my dedicated ways, so as to have a decent Boston, but somehow I trained even less! So the 3:10 finishing time I churned out today (halfs of 1:30, 1:40) was definitely no worse than I deserved. Happy to see my family at mile 14! The weather was h