Two more weeks until Boston! What happened to March and how can it be April already? The past three months since I started working part-time as a substitute aide in the special education classrooms have gone by in a blur of working and training. I think I’m ready for Boston but it doesn’t feel like I’m ready because I’ve squeezed in my training around a very erratic, unpredictable work schedule (if I leave my phone on overnight I will often get a call at 5:30 a.m. to work at 8:30 a.m. that same day). Training has been a priority, just not top priority and that seems to be allowing the taper crazies to get to me a little more this time around (Boston will be full marathon number 7 for me).
Last week was spring break and I took the week to focus on a very important part of my training — altitude training! I’m kidding — my family likes to ski so we went to the mountains in Whistler, British Columbia.

Apparently I’m not the only one who likes to joke. I saw this sign on my run through Stanley Park in Vancouver.
I skied for four days and got in some pretty serious workouts trying to keep up with my kids (ages 13, 11 and 7), all of whom are better skiers than I am. This was one of my favorite trails, a traverse along the Whistler Peak:

Swapped a gorgeous ski trail for a running trail that day!
I made sure to get some running in though too. Check out the moon above Whistler just as the sun was rising over the Valley Trail:

Five miles at an 8:15 pace along the Valley Trail. The cold morning encouraged me to run at a brisk pace!
I also ran 10 miles on the Seawall Trail in Vancouver.

What a treat to do a long run as a tourist in beautiful Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. I saw many other runners that Saturday morning and I wondered how many of them would also be going to Boston in a couple of weeks!
Now I’m back home and back to reality. I started a second part-time job grading online California state assessment tests. Good thing the training schedule is lighter in these last couple of weeks before Boston! One six-miler for my long run this weekend and before I know it, I’ll be back in Beantown. (I lived there for two years when Mike went to business school at MIT Sloan. It’s where my 13-year-old was born, and where my 11-year-old took her first steps when we went back for a visit 10 years ago!)
Do you like to ski? Have you ever been to Boston? Where should I go to eat when I’m there? We have our old favorites and are definitely planning to go for brunch in the South End (Aquitaine. [ETA — closed for renovations! We now have reservations at Gaslight.]) and Italian in the North End (not sure which restaurant yet. [ETA: Rabia’s!]).
Looks like you got some BEAUTIFUL runs in while in Vancouver (both on and off the slope!). We love that area and would love to return some day! Best of luck in beantown! We’re going to get there someday:-)
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Thanks! It’s a little surreal at this point and I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I’ve been to Boston. Vancouver was great — I could easily see living there (well, just outside of the big city in the rest of gorgeous BC).
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