One Week To Boston

One week and counting! I'm excited and confident I can do Boston regardless of my nagging calf strain. I did a 7.5 and a 6 km run on the weekend and felt ok, so am confident my leg is getting better and I'll make it through Boston -- hopefully well ahead of Katie Holmes!

We fly to Boston on Thursday and are staying at the Continental Hotel. It is brand new, very nice, and about 2 km from the finish line. On Friday I'll get my number and race package, and on Saturday I hope to take a bus tour of the course. Sunday will be full rest and relaxation, perhaps even a facial, and Monday is show time. The longterm weather forecast looks promising, with weather in the 50s or so.

Bouvier will be staying home, he's not a fan of flying. The one time Bouvier did fly, which was coming out to Vancouver, the plane had an aborted take off in Toronto so I think it was a rather traumatic experience for the little Bouvier. He'll be well cared for at home at 6 Cedars - pictured here:

Two Weeks To Boston

Well, in just two weeks from tomorrow I'll be off and running the streets of Boston in the world's most famous foot race. There will be 25,000 of us at the starting line. I'll be in a pen with all the other people who ran my qualifying time of 3:46. It'll make for an interesting experience starting with hundreds of others who are the exact same pace of runners.

After much effort, I've selected my Boston outfit. Here is the Bouvier showing it:

I went for the colour blue to refelct the fact I'm a bit blue because I pulled my calf muscle two weeks ago and will be able to do little or no running the month prior to the big race. I'll be doing some test running today to see if it has recovered yet. It's probably not the worst race to go into a bit injured since "no one runs a PB at Boston" anyways, and it's probably the race you can get through completely on adrenaline.