32 Days - Pep Talk

Wednesday, March 18th - 32 Days to Marathon Monday

Temp: 20 degrees, wind chill about 5

Distance: One hour, indoor cross training and strength training!

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With a forecast for rain and snow for yet another long run, I'm getting to the end of my training in crappy weather rope. It was a good thing we had a Dana-Farber team meeting, and a pep talk from Coach Jack Fultz. All the motivation I really need to keep going is to have dinner at the cafe at Dana-Farber, and to just look around and listen to what people are talking about. It's not pretty, and it's not fair, much less fair than an extra-long winter.

Coach Jack's pep talks are always inspiring and funny. He told us about the year he won the Boston Marathon, 1976, and how there was 2-3 inches of snow on the ground a few weeks before the marathon and then it was 100 degrees that day, and how he "forgot" to pick up his bib number so when he crossed the finish line first noone knew who he was. And then he forgot to pick it up the next year too when he came in second. In the middle of the talk he said that he just got a text from the weather channel, and they said that they're expecting weather on marathon Monday. Love it, such a good point. It'll be what it is, and we'll still run, rain, sun, snow...

I like this quote of the day: "The will to win is worthless, without the will to prepare." Thane Yost

Holy crap we're already talking about marathon weekend, less than 5 weeks!

Coach Jack's pep talk and training tips for the last 5 weeks