Weeks 14 and 15

Ok so 1 new years resolution already down, but I will do my best to try and keep up with the training and fundraising as the marathon grown nearer.

The past 2 weeks I have had training runs of 9,7,7,10,5,5,7 and 16 miles for at total of 68 miles. I did not end up running the Boston Prep as scheduling conflicts with the boys basketball teams arose, but it was nice to get the 16 mile run in with the DFMC team out of the Longwood Athletic Club in Wayland. It was a nice rolling course on a pretty nice day for January.

One thing that my son Colin thought was pretty cool was if you go to the DFMC website and check out the picture montage there is a picture of Colin, Hunter and me just after we crossed the finish line of last years marathon.

Donations have come from the Sartell family, Nancy McAuliff and Wayne Fisher. Thank you to all that donated so far.

The Karen's Team Fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday April 10th at the Billerica Elks. For those of you that attended last year you know what a great time it was. Please check back for more information.

Weeks 10,11,12,and 13

I'm back to blogging and training. The last few weeks have been rather crazy around the household and both the blogging and training have slipped a bit. But with the new year comes a renewed commitment to both.
As I have talked about in the past life somtimes gets in the way of this whole marathon fundraising thing and did it ever the last few weeks. My wife had another successful surgery and has recovered nicely. My sons have had us running all over for their High School and travel basketball practices and games and the holidays came and went with me gaining about 10 lbs. If I had been keeping up with the training it probably wouldn't have happened.
So due to life I fell back on my training and only had weeks of 17, 19 and 5 miles. I was not happy but you have to do what you have to do. So with the new year I jumped off to a good week this week with runs of 7, 5, 9, 5, and 12 miles for a total of 38 for the week, hopefully I can keep reasonably close to this pace for the remainder of the trianing period.
The last run of 12 miles was with the DFMC team out on parts of the marathon course, it was cold but it was actually an enjoyable run as I got meet back up with some of the people I had become friendly with through last years experience.
Still looking for a partner for the Boston Prep in 2 weeks I don't believe it has sold out yet.
Donations have been coming in. I have recieved donations from, Todd Evans, Nicole Parker and Steve Olivieri. Thanks to all that have donated so far.

Week 9

Training runs of 4,9,5,7 and 5 miles this week for a total of 30 miles for the week. Training stats are as follows, from Saturday August 1 through Sunday December 13: Total Distance 311 miles, total Time Running 42:58:54, Average Pace 8:18 min/mile. We will be having the first team training run next Saturday, it should be good to catch up with members from last years team and meet some of the people that are running for the first time. Still looking for a partner for the Boston Prep, if interested please let me know.

Donations for the week came from the Hogdon Family, thank you everyone for the generous donations.

Week 8

The weather for training was great up until Saturday afternoon. I had training runs of 5,9,9 and 5 miles for a total of 28 miles this week. I signed up for the Boston Prep in Derry NH in January and am looking for some company that day so anyone that is interested please let me nknow.

No donations this week.

Week 7

Not much to update this week. Only ran 13 miles for the week and there were no donations. I did have a great Thanksgiving spent with my wife Karen and sons Hunter and Colin. We went to the annual Billerica vs. Chelmsford football game with Billerica prevailing 17-0, and then went to my brother and sister in laws and had a wonderful meal.

My DFMC fundraiser will be held on Saturday April 10, 2010 at the Billierca Elks, anyone that attended last year knows what a great time we had so please check back for updates.

Week 6

Training is going great so far. With training runs of 8, 8, 5 and 5 miles this weeks total was 26 miles. This year as opposed to last year the training started much earlier and so far I have logged approximately 250 miles where as last year at this time I had around 40 miles behind me, so I'm feeling pretty good about that. Also the last 5 mile training run was run with my son Hunter he actually was kind to his old man and stayed with me for about 4 miles, when I tried to out kick him at the end he said "we'll have none of that " and left me to finish the last mile by myself. It was fun, which if you know me at all, the words fun and training have never before been used while marathon training.

Donations this week were received from Mr. and Mr Gerry Celano, The Graham Family, my Brother and Sisters from Medford Firefighters Local 1032, and Vinny Fratura from Hoff's Bakery in Medford, Ma. Hoff's has some of the best pastry, pies and cakes around, if you need any for holidays I recommend Hoff's for all your pastry needs. Thank you all for your generous donations.

WEEK 5

Training runs of 8, 8 and 5.5 miles for the week for a total of 21.5 miles logged. The weather has been great for training. Not looking forward to the winter months when it can get treacherous out there.

I received donations from Mike and Gloria Craven and anonymous this week. Thank You very much for the donations.