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"SEVERE WEATHER ALERT" for 19 Apr 04: Boston, MA. 83 degrees, with WSW winds at 22mph by 2pm.
"THOSE PLANNING ON SPENDING TIME OUTSIDE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A VERY WARM AND WINDY DAY... SINCE NOT LONG AGO TEMPERATURES WERE ONLY IN THE 40S. REMEMBER TO HYDRATE YOURSELF AND USE SUNSCREEN... IN ORDER TO AVOID DEHYDRATION AND HEAT RELATED DISORDERS."
[source: weather.com]
at least with the amazingly strong tail winds, all of the strewn-across-the-marathon-course cadavers will be blown face down so the public doesn't have to see their rolled-back eyeballs and salt-crusted faces. and to think that it was 30 degrees with 20mph headwinds when i ran it in 2000.
there will be many to the med tent today. given these temps, odds are better than average this year that something quite tragic could occur in these conditions. i hope it doesn't; i hope the level heads that got all the participants to boston in the first place continue to prevail.
but oh, to be the person who had the intent of going hells-bells today, dreaming of a sub-3 or sub-4 at boston and having to come to the decision of either keeping that dream or giving up that dream for the purposes of finishing the race. running to or from safety. going for the medal or going for broke.
i've been encountering this exact same decision almost every day recently, for there have been one-too-many negative turns that life has thrown at me. it's made me think about quitting my job, moving to some new place, starting a whole new life from scratch. however, if there's one conclusion that i've made throughout all of the past 2 months, it's this: don't go for broke when the heat is on. stay the course, steady and stable until better weather comes along. then think about shooting for a dream. survive, get your finisher's medal, look back and say "i lived through that." if you don't, you may wind up in the med tent, which i can attest as being a place that no person in their marathon wants to be.
weekend race report: Texas Round-Up 10K. Conservative 20:00 first 5K, finished 2nd in age with a 39:45, 18th overall out of 1200. Passed about 50 people in the last 5K by my subjective estimations. But that's what happens at a race with a 2pm start time in 80 degree sun. if anything, it shows improvement over my 3:37, failed-sub-3 marathon attempt last month with inadequate training and poor rest.
and if that's not an improvement, at least it's a proof-of-concept.
"THOSE PLANNING ON SPENDING TIME OUTSIDE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A VERY WARM AND WINDY DAY... SINCE NOT LONG AGO TEMPERATURES WERE ONLY IN THE 40S. REMEMBER TO HYDRATE YOURSELF AND USE SUNSCREEN... IN ORDER TO AVOID DEHYDRATION AND HEAT RELATED DISORDERS."
[source: weather.com]
at least with the amazingly strong tail winds, all of the strewn-across-the-marathon-course cadavers will be blown face down so the public doesn't have to see their rolled-back eyeballs and salt-crusted faces. and to think that it was 30 degrees with 20mph headwinds when i ran it in 2000.
there will be many to the med tent today. given these temps, odds are better than average this year that something quite tragic could occur in these conditions. i hope it doesn't; i hope the level heads that got all the participants to boston in the first place continue to prevail.
but oh, to be the person who had the intent of going hells-bells today, dreaming of a sub-3 or sub-4 at boston and having to come to the decision of either keeping that dream or giving up that dream for the purposes of finishing the race. running to or from safety. going for the medal or going for broke.
i've been encountering this exact same decision almost every day recently, for there have been one-too-many negative turns that life has thrown at me. it's made me think about quitting my job, moving to some new place, starting a whole new life from scratch. however, if there's one conclusion that i've made throughout all of the past 2 months, it's this: don't go for broke when the heat is on. stay the course, steady and stable until better weather comes along. then think about shooting for a dream. survive, get your finisher's medal, look back and say "i lived through that." if you don't, you may wind up in the med tent, which i can attest as being a place that no person in their marathon wants to be.
weekend race report: Texas Round-Up 10K. Conservative 20:00 first 5K, finished 2nd in age with a 39:45, 18th overall out of 1200. Passed about 50 people in the last 5K by my subjective estimations. But that's what happens at a race with a 2pm start time in 80 degree sun. if anything, it shows improvement over my 3:37, failed-sub-3 marathon attempt last month with inadequate training and poor rest.
and if that's not an improvement, at least it's a proof-of-concept.
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