I know it is a weird number to have in my mind but that is the date of my marathon - Baystate marathon in Lowell, MA. I haven't run a marathon in 3 years and the last one was a miserable Boston marathon - 95 degrees, no shade, and I was puking by mile 9 because I drank too much gatorade before the race. So, needless to say I am a little (read a LOT) nervous. I cant seem to calm my nerves at all. I try to keep looking at my training log and know that I have done the work to get here and have a good race, but I just keep remembering the miserable experience I had last time. But at 1,544 miles already this year (which by the way is more miles than I think I ran in the last 2.5 years total) and a bunch of 18 and 20 milers that all went relatively well I feel like I should be able to have a good race. My personal best marathon is 4:31 which was actually at my very first marathon ever about 6 years ago. After that, each marathon brought its own problems (ITB issues, stomach issues, oh yeah and then there was the one I ran right after a 2.4 mile swim and a 112 mile bike ) Time goals: Should be able to get pretty easily - 4:00 A good day - 3:40 A great day - 3:30 My BQ time would need to be 3:15 - no shot at that so not even considering trying for it. Temperature wise it should be good. The race starts at 8:30 AM and while it has beeen sub-40 degrees when I ran the last few mornings at 6:00, it should probably warm up to about 50 by race start. Sorry, just trying to vent some of my nerves out. Thanks for reading. Jeff

Hey, good luck, Jeff! LOL - I'm sure you won't repeat the mistake you made last time! Marathon training and streaking = one tough dude! Keep up the good work!

Good luck Jeff!!!

Jeff you are doing great and you'll do fine and dandy this time you won't make the mistakes you made years before in fact i bet you are feeling stronger now you are doing this streaking business