Thank you! This is probably my favorite weekend of the year. Training has been rough this go around and I had to improvise with a butt load of cross training. I know I won't be hitting last year's time, but I am going to give all I have. The weather looks less than ideal. Rain, cold, and wind. This is how it was in 2015 and it was miserable. Crowds will still be out, but a little thinner. I was on BAA website last night and saw this:
http://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/participant-information/road-to-boston.aspx
Can anyone spot me in the pic? I know it's hard when you don't know someone IRL!
ATTQOTD: I stopped listening to music when running a couple of years ago. I wasn't allowed to have it for the Chicago Marathon, so learned how to run without it. I have been spending a lot of time in the gym the last few months and do listen to music. I need ANYTHING to drown out the sounds of the gym. Take today for instance...I didn't bother digging out the headphones for a quick elliptical before and after spin. There was a woman behind me that kept blowing her nose like a circus clown. Over and over...Then I hate listening to people carry on conversations about the stupidest stuff. Or you will have the people who talk on their phone. No, if you can make a phone call, you aren't working out hard enough.
I do like to watch mindless TV while on gym equipment. I watch is using closed caption at the gym. It can't be anything I need to follow closely, just something I can look at occasionally to take my mind off of working out.
And rootbeer? Blech.