Grandma's Marathon 2008

June 21, 2008:

The third warm Grandma’s in a row. That shouldn’t matter in the competitive sense, of course - we all run in the same weather. But just once I’d love to run Grandma’s with a 50-degree tailwind instead of a 70-degree headwind and unrelenting sun. Maybe with global warming, Grandma’s will have to move the date back into May.

Enough weather - I had a good marathon. No injuries going in and no injuries coming out. YAY! I hoped for a Boston-qualifying 4:15 finish and instead wound up with 4:42:13. But I feel good afterward and there will be even better days. Maybe best of all, Sushine and Sweet Pea both finished it too! More tomorrow. Probably.




Don & Sweet Pea at the start line waiting for the gun.