March 2013 – Prior Family Sports

Boston Marathon Weekend Planning

I’ll use this post as a repository for marathon weekend info and will keep updating and editing as we figure out logistics.Â Useful links at bottom. We still have room for guests (4 guest rooms + living room) over the weekend so if more folks want to come sooner all the better. All invited.

Thursday Bernards travel to CT
Friday Bernards travel to Danielle’s

Saturday

?	Bernards arrive in Newton
12:00pm	Could visit Race Expo for number pickup?
6:00pm	Â Brianna, Allen, Karen, Jack, Lisa attend runner/patient-family dinner at Allston Plant with Genzyme Management (CEO, Head of Rare Diseases, ALF Plant Manager)
	Brianna, Karen, Allen sleep over

Sunday

12:00	Steve, Rebecca, Ava arrive
1:30pm	Depart for Museum of Science
2:30	tickets confirmed: Duck tour with Bernards, Cheshire Priors, Danielle and family (80min, departs Museum of Science), Could visit museum of science after or Marathon Expo after (or just go rest up)
	Steve, Rebecca, Ava,Brianna, Karen, Allen sleep over.

Monday

6:40am	Jack heads to Allston Breakfast, Bernards sleep in. Jack gets dropped-off or we just retrieve car later?
7:45am	Jack travels to Hopkington State Park in genzyme van to catch shuttle to village. Brianna, Allen, Karen take shuttle to Wellesley gathering place to watch race.
9:00am	Jack arrives at Hopkington High School area (athlete’s village)
9:00am	Jack arrives at Hopkington High School area (athlete’s village)
9:00am	Jack arrives at Hopkington High School area (athlete’s village)
9:00am?	Bernards head to 309 Washington St. Wellesley? Gram and Gampy head to Newton See map below for blockade avoidance
10:02	Wheelchairs pass Genzyme location in Wellesley
10:05	Jack exits Athlete’s village for start line
10:18	Wheelchairs pass Newton location
10:46am	Jack cross start line (estimate for wave 3 corral 6)
10:49	Lead Women pass Wellesley Genzyme location
11:08	Lead Men pass Wellesley Genzyme location
11:18	Lead Women pass Newton location
11:35	Lead Men pass Newton location
12:59pm	Jack reaches 14.7mi gathering Wellesley (Genzyme/patient gathering at 131 Washington Street, Wellesley on church front lawn — info below)
1:15pm	Somebody takes Bernards from Wellesley to Newton after Jack passes? Nanny and Papa?
1:41pm	Jack reaches 19.25mi (comm ave and Walnut by house) -I’ll run on the house side of road and look for folks past Walnut in our usual area.
	all bets are off on Jack’s pace
2:40pm	Jack might finish
3:00pm	Jack meets somebody for ride home in family meeting area (map). The “official garage of the BAA” is 100 Claredon.
3:40pm	Jack gets back to Newton
?pm	Nanny, Papa, Pat, Karen, Brianna head to Woodbury	Cheshire Prior’s head home	Allen heads to visit Colin
	Gram, Gampy sleepover — Cheshire Priors?

This map predicts when runners will arrive at each mile of course. My start time is likely 10:46.

Tuesday
Jack likely takes day off. Jared on vacation

Wednesday
Track meet vs. Walpole

Thursday
Bernards head to Ohio

Following the Runner

“AT&T ATHLETE ALERT – Register for the marathonâ€™s AT&T Athlete Alerts by texting* RUNNER to 345678. On race day,you will receive an alert as your runner reaches the 10K, 13.1-mile, 30K, and the finish line!” Comparing these times to forecast below will help gauge how ahead/behind plan I am.

My number is 23930. There will be ways to check my progress using web and cell phone texts. I might wear a gps tracker. Realistically, a good target is 4:09. Â The best time I can hope for is 4:00, so I will try to pace myself in early miles to not get ahead of that (as that strategy never works). Â Â So using the table below, which assumes I’ll cross the starting line at 10:46am, 6 min into wave 3.

Spectators can get to starting line by parking at Hopkington State Park (164 Cedar St, Hopkinton)Â and taking shuttle to/from start line. – map below).

Click here to download pacing map below that project where I’ll be as a function of clock time. It assume I cross line at 10:46. You should be able to fine-tune estimates using texted splits at 5K, 10K, etc. to see if I’m ahead or behind pace. Here is an online course map you can zoom in on to see road options.

Route:

Getting to 1/2 way point
Genzyme supporters and patient families will gather at half way point in front yard of Unitarian church at 309 Washington Street, Wellesley. To avoid getting trapped in a lot by marathon I’d recommend parking in neighborhood off clark street or in neighborhood to right just after route 9 goes under route 16.

Getting to 57 Grove Hill Ave
The normal route to our house is the closedÂ marathon course. Â The only way “across the course” from the south is under it at Route 128. To get to our house on the day of the marathon you need to come down Route 90 to the Newton exit 17 on the Mass Pike, and then go up Washington St. to Walnut Street. They will usually blockade Walnut before you get to Prospect Ave. Either ask to go around or just take right on Hull and Left on Beaumont, and then Right on Prospect to get around them.

Useful Links:

RunningForRareDiseases.org

Donations

http://auction.runningforrarediseases.org/Â

Spectator Guide

Shuttle Parking in Hopkinton State Park:

duck

18 Miler

Lisa left her car at the Route 128 Amtrak station in Westwood before travelling to NYC on Friday. Rather than tie up two people for 2 hours retrieving it along with another hour to drop me off in Hopkinton for a long run on course, I instead ran to Westwood to get it.

It was 14.5 miles to Westwood and then I added an extra 3.5mi back and forth on access road near train station to get to 18 miles in under 3 hours. My GPS watch has a nice feature I hadn’t tried previously where a planned route can be downloaded into it. It shows simple course line on one of its screens and buzzes if you go off course (handy a couple of times). I ran this 14 minutes faster than my first slushy 18 miler on Comm Ave hills a month ago.

Last two miles hurt a lot…slowed down by 1min/mile at constant heart rate…and still have 8.2mi more to go after that…

My training history from September til now and plan til 4/15:

Jared competes in New Balance Indoor Nationals

Jared concluded his indoor season by competing at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York City.

Jared combined with Ryan Lucken, Ben Porter, and Dan Swain to run a season’s best 1:32.46 in the 4x200m relay, the 5th fastest time in Massachusetts and 11th in New England this year and a milesplit elite-level performance (results). The team placed 10th in the emerging elite division and ranks 104th (out of 10,000 teams) in the US.

Team splits: Ryan 22.66, Ben 23.07, Jared 23.37, Dan 23.29

Ryan’s lead off leg was impressive with the flat start. The equivalent of roughly 22.0 for a running start leg.

Here is the professional New Balance / Armory video of the race:

Here is mom’s version:

In the Freshman 60m dash, Jared improved on his 32nd seed to place 22nd (7.65, 7.099 55m split), but with over 3 weeks since his last 55m race, didn’t get the start he was looking for. The starter was a bit erratic (as commentators mention), but that’s something to adapt to when racing outside of Reggie.
Results

Mom’s version:

Jared also served as alternate for the Newton North Sprint Medley. He ran on the MA #1 team that qualified the North to compete in the national meet. The team raced to an All-American 6th place.

Kayla rocks the ECAC Championships with a 3rd place Personal Best 17′ 8.25″

Kayla came into the final meet of her indoor season — Saturday’s Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III Championships — seeded a distant 18th in the long jump.

The ECAC Division III consists of 186 member schools, so that’s a pretty good accomplishment in itself. But then as Kayla’s coach said to us yesterday, there is a reason why they actually run track meets rather than just hand out medals based on the seed performances.

Kayla walked out of the New Balance Armory with the bronze medal around her neck and Ithaca College walked out with the 2013 ECAC DIII Team title (results, Ithaca press release, family photos, team photos, jump sequences)

Kayla opened her long jump competition with a indoor PR-matching 17’5.25″ jump and then followed it with a strong 17’4.25″ jump that would prove important. She finished 2nd in the 1st flight of 11 jumpers, but with 13 better jumpers remaining to jump in the 2nd flight to fill out the 9-woman final, she figured her day was likely over and headed to the stands to visit with the family.

The 2nd flight under-performed vs. their PRs, and after they were finished jumping, Kayla had made the finals (3 more jumps) and stood in a 3-way tie for 4th place, with her strong 2nd jump giving her the lead among them on the tie-breaker.

I have never seen such a tight field. Look at the performances of the top 9 jumpers going into the final 3 jumps:

5.46 5.39 5.32 5.31 5.31 5.31 5.30 5.30 5.30

Only 3/4″ separated places 3-9, and ALL the jumpers in the final had a better personal best than Kayla, so she could easily fall back out of the points to 9th if others improved and she didn’t.

In 4th round one of the three 5.30 jumpers popped off a 5.51 for the lead, and pushed Kayla back to 5th. Kayla responded on her 5th jump with an indoor/outdoor PR 5.39m (17′ 8.25″) that moved her up past the 4th place 5.32 to 3rd place tie, with her 2nd jump again winning the tie breaker. That jump is over a foot better than her 16’8″ high school indoor PR.

Kayla’s 6 points made her Ithaca’s 4th highest point contributor toward the team title, only exceeded by NCAA-championship-bound seniors Jenn Randall, Amanda Rissmeyer, and Emilia Scheemaker. Kayla’s performance ranks her 43rd in the NCAA division III qualifying list, with the top 16 (18’1.75″) qualifying.

Kayla also competed in the triple jump on Friday, delivering her 2nd best career performance with a 35′ jump for 14th place.

VIDEO OF KAYLA’S 17’8.25″ PR jump for 3rd: