Hello World.

This weekend a possible Plan B developed.  For those who don’t know, my Plan A is to qualify for the Boston Marathon this December while running the St. Jude Marathon.  This would require me to run a 3:20:59 marathon or better which is an average of 7:40 per mile for the entire 26.2 miles!

Now normally I am not a Plan B type of person.  I have Plan A and that better work.  And similar to a square peg in a round hole, if it doesn’t work at first then I get a bigger hammer.  Plan A is the plan.  Period.  So why am I considering a Plan B with 18 weeks to go before the race?  Two reasons.

First, I have had a less than stellar week of running.  I may or may not talk about it on my Timbeaux site.  I am still pretty aggravated about it, but it is what it is.  And I can’t go back and do it again anyway.  But it did open my eyes to the difficulty of what I am trying to accomplish.

Second, my wife, Christine (Hardcore) may be doing another marathon.  And any race of that length I like to share the experience with her.  It is always much more fun to look back at a race and laugh (or cry) about something we both saw on the course or experienced.

So the possible Plan B is the Mardi Gras Marathon in New Orleans.  It is about 3 months after the St. Jude marathon, so I will have plenty of time to recover, regroup, and ramp up my training for another attempt at Boston.  The biggest question now is whether it is a Boston qualifying race or not.  Still working on that one.

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