New Bedford Half-Marathon (Read 579 times)

I'm 90% sure I'll be there. I've run it the last 2 years, it's a great race even though it's usually cold and windy as hell down there in March.

I just LOVE running into a nice stiff cold breeze.

Well - this is pretty much the reason why I signed up. The lure of a cold stiff breeze blowing on my face was just too tempting...I just had to do it.... Truth be told -- your words of wisdom back when we were discussing the Hampton Marathon, and looking at the race web site where what pushed me over the edge.....today, I figured that if I went ahead and signed up that I have 6 weeks to prepare......so I decided that was enough time to gain a little strength in my longer runs....... Looking forward to it - this is the first 1/2 that I will have run in probably 15 years or so.......

I'm thinking about it as well. I have done it in the past as a pace run for Boston Training. Still trying to figure out if I'm retired from the 13.1 - 26.2 races and just stick with the 5k-10k's.

I'm registered. Using it as a training race for my first marathon on 5/24.

Not according to your signature. We'll have to ask Eric to dip into the PayPal funds for a traveling RA banner, at least for Boston area races. It will make it easier to get everybody into the group picture.

Fixed. Maybe I can get one of those cool RunningAhead.com rear window stickers that Eric has. I can put it right under my Starfleet Academy one.

I'm registered. Using it as a training race for my first marathon on 5/24.

I have decided to run the Bay State marathon in Oct 2009, and am using this as an indication of where my training stands 7 months prior to the Marathon... If you plug my last 5k time into the VDOT Calculator in http://runbayou.com (which is based on the Jack Daniels training system), it calculates that my HALF Marathon time is estimated/projected at 2:01:19. I'm hoping that 5 weeks of good training (35 to 40 MPW), a little luck (and hopefully we get a nice running day), and I can shave a couple minutes off that time and squeak in at 1:59:59 or just a little quicker...... Least that's my plan........If anyone wants to take a peek at my running log, I'm open to any training suggestions that anyone may have for me for the next 5 or 6 weeks. I'm not worried about completing 13.1, my concern is doing it in 1:59:59 or faster.