Boston or Marathon Into An Ironman / Half Iron Season
Despite our incredibly articulate advice, every year many of you will sign up for a marathon during your season build up. The most "costly" of these is Boston, given how it appears in April, but all marathons within the 9-month ramp up to your race will have an effect on your ability to train and recover.
If you are still planning on doing the marathon and need help adjusting your training, please check out the official Marathon page in the Wiki which include a Webinar and PDF with instructions for you!
ps if you need help adjusting your plan because of the above, please head over to the Micro Forum!
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Hi Patrick
Look forward to seeing you in Boston! btw - could EN create a Boston Marathon Group like we have for the IMs?
This is such an iconic race that many EN do or aim to do that it would be great to have a group to share ideas and strategies for it.
I particularly look forward to your input in that group about your own training for this race. Thanks and Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2014! G.
For the record, I started my Hacked-OS this week so I'd be able to make good choices about tapering the bike in the last couple of weeks.
My plan will be a hybrid custom marathon plan with bike maintenance intervals since Boston is an "A" race and my only other race isn't until mid August.
My goal is to beat my recent PR, that was in October on a tougher course.
@William I was also thinking about maybe starting the OS this week, so then it ends two weeks before Boston. But Coach R's season panning has me on the Marathon plan sometime in March, so I am doing as told.
Would be fun to have a Boston training group and see how people are hacking the OS.
Anyway, as I said, if it's cool with RnP to have a little group of us off in the corner, I'm game.
@ Williams, Steve and Anu - thanks for responding and already sharing some of your plans ... i hope EN finds that there is enough interest to create a group or subgroup for the BM ... if not, maybe we can use this forum to share ideas/plans but it certainly could be better if we could have a BM dedicated group.
As for me, Rich has me on a 1/2 M training plan until early March like Anu. I am doing the advanced balanced plan which includes one day of bike and one day of swim and specific runs. I have replaced one of the weekend runs for a tempo bike. But, plan to get to the two weekend runs in 2 wks. As William, I also like to get in a few long runs (planning 2-4 runs in the 20 to 22 range).
Look forward to the ongoing sharing and potentially the BM group.
@ Patrick - are you in for a BM group? Thanks!
Great week to all!
I'm also doing Boston...my first Boston and 13th marathon. I'm still trying to figure out how to hack the plans to keep my bike fitness during marathon training and treating it as an "A" race. After the Nov Outseason, Rich has me doing the swim camp, then the run focus plan then the last 7 weeks of the marathon plan.
A separate group would be nice.
Derrek
Hi everyone. I joined EN this week and have Boston on my schedule in 2014. I ran the event last year, but didn't have a good training cycle and I paid for it on race day. In fact, it took me until about mid June to recover from the wear and tear of that cycle.
I've been more of a higher volume runner during my marathon builds. I joined EN to get more of a balance in my training since I've added a couple of HIMs and my first IM to my schedule. I'd welcome some kind of Boston training group here on EN as a way to learn how people manage their training.
BTW, the race is in 100 days.
OK, Boston is a B/C race for me. My primary goal is tribal solidarity. I'm still refining my time goal for the race. The biggest factor to consider is my desire to do VERY well @ Ironman CDA, which is 10 weeks later. Here's my thinking:
I am staying in Milford so will not have access to the pre-busing drop off. What is the chance that someone here can drop a bag for me or are staying at/near the finish and can hold my dry clothes there?
@ Steve - I'm willing to give it a try. The big deal, is getting the bag to me. My hotel is a block southeast of the Commons. Let me know if you don;t get a better offer.
Yeah, I had minute of angst about all this. The phrase "clear, plastic bag" kept recurring - the same phrase is in the instruction for the USAT Nationals this summer in Milwaukee, where there will be 4500 athletes. It has that Homeland Security ring to it, an valiant attempt to insure no one plants a bomb, I assume.
I'm assuming it will be chilly in the morning, so I;'ll be wearing some throwaway pajama bottoms and long sleeved shirt I've got lying around. It's about a 1-2 hour wait at the staging area before the race, hopefully it'll be sunny.
Getting a bag to you shouldn't be too big a deal. I plan to be in town on Saturday for bib pick-up and wander the expo for the free samples, so making a stop by your hotel would be easy. If you are out and about, I'm sure the front desk can hold it for your return.
I'll PM you about details after we get info on the drop bags and Wave/coral assignments, hopefully this week.
Steve
I'm planning to arrive Saturday afternoon, so a Sunday breakfast would work for me.
Derrek
Team - Coach Patrick here, channeling through your Race Director (Brenda Ross)
Time to start thinking about Boston Marathon weekend. It's a big event this year for many reasons, and while we all run for our own causes, 2014 sees us united for something much bigger than just fitness. I hope that we can connect while you are in my "hood" as it were.
I have created an online space for you to enter your name + email (example: Patrick McCrann patrick.mccrann@gmail.com) and pick the times you think would work best for you. I will strive to pick a reasonably priced location close to the Hynes Convention Center / Marathon Expo will be.
Here is the form: http://doodle.com/8xav2ymmbqin7763
You MUST enter your email address to be contacted about the final time selection,etc -- this poll will close on 3/31/2014.
Best of luck in your final weeks and I hope to see you in Boston.
Patrick
ps -- significant others and fellow runners are welcome to attend, please just note them separately so I can keep track of numbers, thanks.
BAA email this am indicates individuals will not be allowed to drop off bags for anyone beside him/herself. So gutting someone else to drop off for you is apparently not an option.
Thought some of you might be interested in this tour of the course. Even though I was born in Boston (Salem, actually), and have run the race x 2, my wife, sister, and bro-in-law are insisting that we take this 3 hour bus trip. We'll be going Saturday afternoon @ 2 PM.
http://marathontours.com/index.cfm/.../pid/10947
Bummer..... I was afraid of something like that.....
I emailed BAA to ask if there were any other options available for folks like me who are not staying in town... I doubt it though.....
Check it out here: http://www.goldenadventures.com/upcoming_bostonmarathon2014.php
Thanks for the tip Scott. I've switched my res from Milford to Boston using GA, otherwise it would have been way too expensive.
Scott, any options for a one night stay? Thanks,
Derrek