Boston 2010 here I come!

I ran the Fredericton Marathon yesterday and I managed to get my target time of 3:15 and qualify for the Boston marathon!! I'm pretty excited about going next year.

I'm just glad that all this training was not wasted. The weather was a bit chilly, and we got rained on a couple of times, but the course has to be one of the best we have around here. I was feeling great till the last 4 kilometres and it was a mental battle after that. I wasn't sore anywhere in general, more of a fatigue thing where you're body is running low on energy.

I'm feeling quite sore today and limping around the house for the next few days is expected.

Andrea did a great job as my 'support' crew handing out bananas and watermelon.

Dean ran and got another PB of 3:05, and Steve ran his 1st marathon and qualified for Boston as well with a time of 3:27. Steve's older, so he's lucky enough that he doesn't need the same time as Dean or I do. He needed to be under 3:30, while Dean I needed to be under 3:15.

I managed to come in 12th out of almost 200 marathoners and 2nd for my age group. Of course Dean was 1st for our age group the bugger. Always 2nd to Dean... :-)