Running Notes by HJL

The temperature and wind forecast looks promising, 48F, no rain, and 7MPH wind at 6am, and 61F forecast for noon. Looks like we may have a little fog tomorrow. I drove the course this afternoon to refresh my memory and help prepare for tomorrow’s run. There was an interesting combination of thick fog at ground level and blue skies a few hundred feet above, with wisps of fog curling around the boundary between air coming from the ocean and warmer air coming from the adjacent coastal land.

There’s a huge storm on the East Coast this weekend with flood warnings from New York to Maine. I just looked to see what the word is on tomorrow’s Boston Marathon.

From the Boston Athletic Association:

FORECAST:
The most up-to-date weather forecast calls for a predicted Spring storm on Monday, including heavy rains (potentially 3 to 5 inches), with the start temperatures in the mid to upper 30’s. Wind will likely be East (in the face of the participants for most of the race) in the 20 to 25 mile per hour range, with gusts to as much as 50 miles per hour. This will produce a wind chill index of 25 to 30-degrees Fahrenheit.

Ugh.

Update 04-19-2007 17:35 PDT - Robert Cheruiyot won for the second year in a row, in 2:14:13. At the other end of the field, Jacob Seilheimer finished (unofficially) last, in roughly 9:40. I’m impressed that he actually finished, he apparently started training in January, mostly on a stationary cycle, and weighs around 350 pounds.

I’m splitting off the running related posts from the main blog. I’d like to post a bit more frequently, and am hesitant to inflict a lot of day to day running minutiae on the non-runners.

I’m not sure if I’m going to move the previous posts over to here. At the moment, you can see last year’s running posts here.