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Vancouver Marathon: Complete

May 6, 2009
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Well I did it. 42.2 km (26.2 miles) successfully completed in 4:27:57. But as you can tell from the photo, it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. I spent the days leading up to the marathon worrying about my cold and how it would affect my ability to complete the distance. I focused on [...]

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Distracted

April 21, 2009

My mind is definitely on the impending Marathon these days. I’m finding it hard to focus on my projects to get anything meaningful done. I’m also pushing up against my 1 year time limit on a couple of web courses so I’m trying to plow through those final assignments in the next week. Being sick [...]

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32km

April 11, 2009

The 20 miler is an important distance in marathon training. It’s the furthest you go with any sane training program. This weekend was my first 20 miler (32km) and my peak run during my training for the Vancouver Marathon. As a treat I decided to mix up my route. Here’s my play-by-play.

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Marathon Lead-Up

April 10, 2009

Last year I started running. My first race was the Vancouver Sun Run 10k. I came in under an hour and was pleased so I decided to see how far I could take this. I signed up for my first half-marathon. All last summer I trained hard. I even ran the Nike+ 10k race in [...]

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