Posted by David Ranta on September 11, 2013 at 9:20pm
Where to begin? Qualified for Boston 2012 and 2013 during two marathons in 2011. Then in December 2011 I contracted kidney disease. After 5 months of bed rest and 14 months of immune suppression meds I'm almost back to normal. I couldn't run Boston in 2012 as the fatigue was to much to overcome. I was back in training for 2013, but a month before the race I suffered a blood clot in my lung. My Doc ordered me to stop running. We went to Boston to watch the marathon, and the unthinkable happened. Boston was a great weekend and something bad happened. If I had run in 2013 I would probably not have finished it, due to the course closure. Running on immune suppression meds slowed me down by 3 min per mile.I'm off all meds now with the exception of the blood thinners, and I'm feeling stronger with each run.My Cool Impossible is to qualify for Boston in 2014 and to run Boston in 2015. Here's where the Cool Impossible comes into play. My Goal time is 2:50 which is 11 minutes slower than my PB from 1984. I'm 55 now. You do the math to figure my age then. In 2011 I ran 3:11 and 3:01. My original goal prior to getting sick was just to break 3 hrs in Boston. Then I read Born to Run (twice) and The Cool Impossible. On my second reading now and have started Eric's workouts. Please help keep me on track. Thanks, David.
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