I was definitely a marathon groupie all weekend long. It started Friday night with a visit to the Expo and Meb Keflezighi's talk on his recently released book, Meb for Mortals. Saturday opened with another visit to Old South Church for Chris MacDougall's talk on his new book, Natural Born Heroes and ended with a second trip to the Expo and site seeing on Boylston street. I love marathon weekend especially when the weather is so nice out. The city is filled with such happy, fit people!

Below are a few of the pictures from the weekend.

Tonight at run club we paid tribute to those injured in the events at the 2013 Boston Marathon.  We started out with our usual 5k fun run and ended with a candle light vigil and moment of silence for those injured and lost.

It was simple and meaningful.  Being a runner in Boston it is especially meaningful this week as we look forward to this year's marathon.  The memories from 2 years ago have touch us all in some way.  I was glad to be a part of this small beautiful tribute. 

We Run Together.  Boston Strong.

I unintentionally turned last week into a sort of rest week.  

The original plan was to make it a cut back week and run about 7 miles or so.  With all the activity and sleeping in (shh) I only managed to complete 2 runs of 2 miles each.  No matter... I will make it up this week.

Holy Week is the time of the year we Christians remember Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection to glory.  It is marked by services of remembrance and joyful gatherings of family and food!

Here are a few pics from my run last Saturday. 

Gorgeous. Peaceful. Fun.

 

Found myself off the beaten path.

Wandering how I'm going to get out. :)

Frozen Reservoir

Happy trails!

Running on the snow is really growing on me.  It is an adventure with every step.  At first I was skeptical about going out on such an unsure surface after my recent injury but so far it hasn't been so bad.  Running on the snow may even be helping me.  How, you ask?  Well...

1. You have to go slow!   
Now that I'm running again, it is so tempting to do too much too soon-- to go too fast... take on too many miles.  Running in this crazy weather has forced me to slow down and has kept me on my training "plan".  For example, I went out the other day and it was 14 degrees with -1 wind chill.  I was scheduled to do 1 mile and believe me nothing could have tempted me to go farther in that craziness!  I was feeling good so if the weather was nicer, I don't know that I would have stopped at just 1 mile.  Good thing the weather was horrible. :)