Sri Bodkhe

Race Notes: Hungover from night before, too much DFH IPA. Would have been at least 3 or 4 minutes quicker on a warm day and hilly course.

Race Notes: Paced more like a 10 miler, but happy with the outcome as my calves still weren't quite 100% from the marathon.

Race Notes: BQ!!!!! First marathon finish with only fluids as I had trained that way, hated the gels. I had a faint hope of qualifying for Boston (BQ) at MHRM as my foot had improved significantly after dropping out of DeMar. BQ is a compromise as my original goal of qualifying (to bypass lottery) for NYCM went out the window (need 3:10 for my AG). I started well @ Mohawk for the first 5 miles then got progressively slower till mile 20, clocking 7:59, 7:58 for mile 19 and 20. Since I was going *nowhere*, I stopped to look at my GPS and stopped planning my mile splits for a specific time goal. Just then, something kicked in and I started running well for the first time since the beginning of the race! Passing bunch of runners only helped me to keep up my new found *speed*. I passed *a lot* of runners while not being passed by anyone else over the last 10K+. In the end I clocked 7:18 for mile 26 and 6:37 for the last 0.34 mile (not good at tangents) and pleasantly surprised to see myself BQing (qualifying for Boston Marathon in 2010 & 11).

Race Notes: BQ!!!!! I had a faint hope of qualifying for Boston (BQ) at MHRM as my foot had improved significantly after dropping out of DeMar. BQ is a compromise as my original goal of qualifying (to bypass lottery) for NYCM went out the window (need 3:10 for my AG). I started well @ Mohawk for the first 5 miles then got progressively slower till mile 20, clocking 7:59, 7:58 for mile 19 and 20. Compared to the last year I was 2 minutes behind at mile 20, not a good sign. Since I was going *nowhere*, I stopped to look at my GPS and stopped planning my mile splits for a specific time goal. Just then, something kicked in and I started running well for the first time since the beginning of the race! Passing bunch of runners only helped me to keep up my new found *speed*. I passed *a lot* of runners while not being passed by anyone else over the last 10K+. In the end I clocked 7:18 for mile 26 and 6:37 for the last 0.34 mile (not good at tangents) and pleasantly surprised to see myself BQing (qualifying for Boston Marathon in 2010 & 11), just barely in 3:20:34 net time (required 3:20:59 or less for 40-44 AG).

Race Notes: Good effort on very sore legs. Started out slow as I was still beat up from DeMar dropout and the subsequent high intensity workouts. Glad to come close to the last years time after starting out slow on very painful legs. This workout helped to run last 10K of the marathon much faster a week later.