Cape Breton Wednesday, May 28 2008 

Running johngevans 12:00 am

Memorial Day always finds me in the most beautiful place on the planet, Cape Breton NS. I’m usually running the Cabot Trail Relay with the Maine-iacs (one of four teams based in Central Maine), but once again I was injured and couldn’t run. See Ouch for the reason… Once again the Maine-iacs dominated the event and won easily, but the Maine Road Hags (yes that is their team name) did pretty well, too.

After the last relay leg got underway, I took off for Halifax to visit some friends of mine, some fellow New Jersey ex-patriots. I have to say, I love living in Boston, but Halifax is enticing.

 

Boston Marathon 2008 Sunday, Apr 27 2008 

Running , johngevans 5:01 pm

Hmmph. I guess that was… ok… I was shooting for a sub 3:20 so as to qualify again for next year, but instead I came in at 3:27:00 on the nose. Looks like I’ll have to find a nice flat fall marathon. Maybe Berlin…

This was my 10th Boston, and the crowd was great, the best I’ve ever seen. The weather was a little bit on the warm side, though. The cloud cover vanished just before the race got underway, and as a result I ended up with a serious sunburn by the time the day was over.