The New York Road Runners sent me the official news the other day:
Dear …,
Thank you for applying to the ING New York City Marathon 2008. We’re sorry to inform you that…
The email goes on to politely say that I should contact various charitable organizations who — for a few thousand dollars — would be glad [...]
I recently came across this article relating to the USA Track & Field regulation against wearing headphones in sanctioned events. Here’s the opening paragraph:
At the peak of the marathon season, with one of the year’s biggest races set for Sunday in New York, a worry has emerged among some runners, and it has nothing to [...]
The following images were shamelessly pilfered from the runpix.com website which does visualizations of marathon races. Frankly, being a data wienie — or more specifically a heart rate data wienie, these guys and gals do really cool stuff. Check it!
The view above shows the runners who finished in the 30 seconds before and after my [...]
Just a quick post on yesterdays run. Results are as follows:
Chip Time: 3:31:29
Clock Time: 3:33:57
Overall place: 1373/20667
Gender place: 1194/12610
Division place: 234/2263
Age Grade: 59.3%
I don’t really understand the age grade number. There’s a blurb on what it means, but the only interesting aspect of it is 60% is the minimum level for a “local level” performance. [...]
I was reading the book “PRE” by Tom Jordan on the flight into Washington DC last night and ventured upon a short commentary by Mary Decker. If the name isn’t familiar, she’s known as Mary Slaney these days. Of course having spent a little bit of time on the track in the early 80’s, it [...]
Here’s a quick marathon update. I don’t have split data or anything at this point, but I should have that on Thursday or so. Here are the short term important bits:
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My favorite description of a marathon is, twenty miles of hope and six miles of truth. When you run a marathon as a personal endeavour, rather then as an elite with a chance of [...]
One of my long term goals is to qualify for and run the Boston Marathon. My BQ time is currently 3:15. Well, actually.. 3:14:59.9 but who’s counting. [...]
