rhinobrink in Brisbane is doing 41 things including…

qualify for the Boston Marathon

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Times needed to reach Boston cutoff 19 months ago

Just had a think about this – to see if it’s too hard. I don’t think it is. My intention is to set the time in 2009.

3hr 10mins is current cutoff for my age group (http://www.bostonmarathon.org/BostonMarathon/Qualifying.asp).

McMillan running calculator (http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/cgi-bin/calculations.pl) says this time reverts to a 11:10 for 3km – I’m about 20 – 30 seconds off there. 40:29 for 10km – I’m about 2 minutes off there. And 1:30 for a half marathon – I’m just over 2 minutes off there.

I’m not saying it’s going to be easy, but I can at least see that my PBs are not too far from the mark. I just need to get fit again soon and work hard on marathon training.

Plus, Boston Athletics add 5 minutes to the 35-39 age group qualifying time. So it may get slightly easier for me in four years time if I remain fit and well. ;-)



3:09:59 19 months ago

This is a great goal. It will be extremely hard for a runner of my standard, but I think I can do it.

Think this will be a 2009 goal for me



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