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August 30, 2005
Embracing Boston
Set the radio stations in my car to Boston stations.
Leave Boston. Get my butt outdoors. Research places to go. **And then go.** (Get Outdoors New England has some good suggestions-like the one immediately below.)
Go to Dave’s Mega Maze. Be honest, who hasn’t always wanted to do this?
Research good places to run. I got some suggestions but I am bad at maps and never took the next step of finding said places. DO NOT run the same run I do all the time.
Go “leaf peeping” in September or October. Betsy? You reading this?? That’s why I moved to Boston! I am so there this year!
I am trying to decide how I feel about apple picking. Wine tasting? These are possibilities but I've done them both elsewhere and I am not sure how exciting I still find them.
Learn how and go cross-country skiing. (They have an intro package I found last year that comes with equipment, instruction, and ski time for $35).
Run home from the rest of the T-stations.
Go to Salem. I have wanted to go for over a year but didn’t quite make it. There is a haunted/ghost walking tour.
Find new, fun, non-library places to study/read. Any suggestions?
I had on here “run races in new spots”…but basically anywhere I race will be new so that’s an easy one to accomplish.
Decorate my apartment. I never decorated last year. I hate that stuff. I need to just power through it so I am not embarrassed to have people over.
I am open to other fun suggestions. Anything else I am missing? I am going to bookmark this blogging post so that I can reference it often. I hopefully start on my list this week...and anyone is welcome to join me on my adventures!!
Posted by Audrey at August 30, 2005 02:55 PM
Comments
Two suggestions:
1.) 92.9 WBOS -- There are only two things that I miss about living in Boston: this radio station and the crepes (Mr. Crepe in Davis Square, Arrow Street Crepes near Harvard).
2.) My husband & I went apple picking/wine tasting at the same place -- Nashoba Valley Winery. We really enjoyed ourselves; it was probably the most beautiful day I've ever seen in Massachusetts and the apples smelled really good. Then we went home and made about 3 apple pies.
Posted by: B at August 30, 2005 08:09 PM
I meant to also say that stating as a fact that you can't qualify for Boston is downright crazy. It doesn't make any sense at all, unless ... I don't know ... you have a condition that's going to prohibit you from running longer than 14 miles before the race? I think maybe a more accurate statement is that you don't have it "in the bag" and you're going to have to work for it. (And who knows, maybe you do have it in the bag; you just can't say yet.) But I doubt you'll have a problem with the hard work part. If you think speed is your limitation then the marathon is likely the distance for you. It's a strength event, not a speed one.
My advice would be to just train like you're going to do it without judging yourself every run or every workout. Just do the work for a few weeks/months and then before you taper go out and run a few races to see where you stand. Even if the races don't go as you planned just adjust your race plan accordingly, but still run the race with that goal in the back of your mind, and if you get to mile 20 and you think you've got a shot at it, go for it! Just don't kill the dream before you start!
Posted by: jenandmats at August 31, 2005 10:12 AM
DEFINITELY go apple picking! It is so much fun. When I was at Bowdoin we did it once a year at the end of a run. The apples are so good too.
That is so cool that you were a running model! I feel that as a runner I am definitely full figured but I would still go be a model.
I hope you have fun in Boston. I am sure you will have fun when school starts and it seems like you really have the attitude that you want to enjoy it which is half the battle :)
Posted by: Barb at August 31, 2005 12:21 PM