Neal Mcmahon ran the Boston Marathon and finished with a time of 3:15:54.
Beautiful day in Boston and slightly disappointed I didn’t take better advantage of the excellent conditions. Not my best or worst marathon. I was a bit too leisurely in the first half of the race and found myself having to make up to much time to get close to a PR. My last 10K was my fastest and felt good at the end. In hindsight, just need my earlier splits to be a touch faster. But that’s how it goes sometimes. Final stats were 81st out of 1513 for my age group. And beat my bib number of 13577 with a 10,525 overall finish. Already looking forward to next year, when in all probability I’ll be racing with my son who should get in with a 7:14 cushion from his 2:52 in Houston. A father/son Boston is a big bucket list item for me.
El Jones ran a 5k Tune-up Race and finished this distance in the time of 22:11.
This race is a fund raiser for scholarships to a local catholic boys high school in honor of a fallen well loved police officer. It has a strong police presence and participation. I always love the mounted officers and honor guard.
I love this race! I hate this course! And it was short this year! The first 2 miles are downhill but the third has steep .10 mile hill with COBBLESTONES! 😳 Was extremely happy with my time. I’m getting closer to where I want to be!
Timothy Doyle ran the London Marathon and finished this race in the time of 4:02:25.
Warm day in London. Better time than projected, not quite sub 4. Very happy. Thanks RunnersConnect coaches and team!
George Papageorgiou ran the Alexander the Great Marathon with a finishing time of 4:01:41. This was a massive personal record by 25 minutes!
My second ever Marathon race attempt but the first one with proper preparation. I enjoyed the first half of the race but could not maintain the pace and struggled in the last miles. Overall, certainly a worthwhile experience.
Bradley Lauderdale ran the Oshkosh Half Marathon and completed this race event in the time of 2:06:58.
My goal Garmin pace for this race was 9:30, which I achieved except I had a 1 minute Porta Potty stop. This is about 4 minutes faster than the same race a year ago. That was encouraging but the time is not exciting. My fall HMs are faster (2:04:08 last year), mostly because of better preparation all summer compared to Wisconsin early spring, but also this spring course is half on a slightly loose dirt trail and has 4 bridge overpasses. The fall race is all road and just one overpass.
Training over the past two months went well, no injuries, and only a few weather and schedule related missed runs. Near the end of this race I had no pain, I was not feeling out of breath, but I couldn’t make my legs go faster than the 9:30 pace – I felt that if I tried I’d be more likely to stumble than run faster. I had an easy recovery, little soreness the next day and a good recovery run the day after that.
Adam Fung ran the Boston Marathon and finished this race event in the time of 3:22:12.
Had a decent race. I started at a disciplined pace/effort and ran a pretty even race. I didn’t slow down appreciably on the Newton hills and finished w/o completely emptying the tank. I’m pretty satisfied with the even effort and that was probably the best I’ve executed an even effort compared to just holding on as long as I can and trying to limit losses at later miles in prior marathons.
I had to stop briefly twice in the first 5 miles to re-tie my shoes as they were too tight and hurting my feet but otherwise, the first 11 or so miles were pretty smooth. I took water at aid stations to supplement the sports drink + electrolytes I had in my 2 650 mL flasks. My stomach was a little unsettled when drinking water from the cups so that affected my ability to fuel and hydrate as I normally would. Luckily, the weather was good so I wasn’t loosing a lot of water. Left calf cramped and right Achilles was bothering me in the chute after the finish line but no injuries or slow-downs due to physical pain during the race.
Mike Corker ran the Gt Yarmouth 5 Mile, finishing this distance in the time of 40:30.
Course: Flat seafront, Two laps of 4k with 2k into wind (30+ mph) and 2k with wind behind. My warm up was poor and too short being a couple of km less than usual. This led to a high HR for the first half of the race and the first 2k into the wind was especially hard. Lesson learned!. The second half was easier than the first being 5 seconds faster and slightly lower HR, with a strong finish at 3:46/km. A big field of 664 finishers compared to a more normal 250 to 300 on a narrow course led to a lot of overtaking in the first 1 to 2 k
Positive points: 1st of 5 in 75+ category, over 6 minutes in front of the second. Endurance is not a problem as I had a strong finish, the second 4k was faster than the first and the Garmin “”Performance Condition”” shows me getting stronger as the race progressed. The taper worked well again.
Negatives: My PB here in 2024 was 105 seconds faster (13 seconds/ km) in similar conditions. I have not been hitting the training paces and I have been feeling my performance slipping since last October’s HM. I can cope with the volume of the training but high intensity efforts need more recovery than previously and strength work has been taking a back seat because of that.
