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@xulf , I'm registered for Boston 2026, too!! Game on.
My nephew, Paul B, is planning to pursue a cancer-related charity entry so that he can join me. (He was the one that ran with me on the July 4 5K.)
Hush you. It's a magic elixir that refreshes and revives. Pretty sure it's growing my hair back, too!
Realistically, you might be looking at a month of healing. Damaged hammies are no joke.
That’s ungood. Florida IM is on Nov 1. It will be more important to be healthy than to push an injury.Realistically, you might be looking at a month of healing. Damaged hammies are no joke.
You know as well as anyone, only way it's going to heal up is resting it which, if you have a race beginning November, might work out. You're going to taper the last two weeks anyhow. Your level of fitness should be about as good as it's going to be so how do you kinda maintain that without 1. causing more damage and 2. maintaining fitness as best as possible.
Yeah, we also have a century ride September 20 and a duathlon September 27. I can miss those if necessary.
What were the circumstances of the injury? I've been hopeful that the 10k crowd is reasonably well-protected from random bad old man injuries by virtue of our fitness, but I'd be lying if it's not in the back of my mind when I go to play pickleball or something like that.
I’ve been increasing my running and putting in over 12 hours weekly between the disciplines. Tuesday night was a strong brick - 26 mile ride, 2 mile run. Wednesday morning was intervals. I had just finished my third 4 minute interval, which included a down hill portion. I felt a niggle in my right hip, thought “that’s new, I’ll rest in a few miles” maybe ten steps later my right leg gave out and I found myself doing an involuntary push-up. I stopped the Garmin, stood up and thought about continuing but the hammy felt off. So I walked a few steps and realized quickly that I was not running more.
The projection websites are saying you need 5+ minutes. Hopefully they are wrong and you find a way to squeak into Boston in April. Rooting for you to join us!Yeah. I have a 3:05 buffer for Boston 3:11:55 vs 3:15:00). I'd need <3:10 for Chicago 26 now.Some of the time qualifiers are the same as Boston. The thing about Chicago is there is no buffer to contend with. If you meet the time, you are in. Boston isn't like that.I just registered for Boston and decided to check on Chicago's registration page for 2026. After changing the qualifying times...making them harder by 10 minutes for automatic qualifiers in 2025...they have made it an additional 5 minutes harder for 2026.
I had an auto qualifying time for 2024 at a younger age bracket but went with the Columbus Marathon to try and qualify for Boston. Now, I will have to go back into the lottery unless I pull off a miracle in my October race.
Chicago now has harder qualifications than Boston.
