Live From Boise, Idaho
Long drive today from Vancouver, British Columbia to Boise, Idaho for tomorrow's City of Trees Marathon and Half Marathon! However, the drive was a very, very scenic one.
I was up at 4:30 a.m. Pacific, went downstairs in the apartment building and did a half hour on the treadmill. (I had done almost an hour Friday morning before the power in the apartment building went out. 53 minutes officially.) Started out easy at like 4.4 mph and added a .1 mph every 2 minutes. Got me loose for the drive south to Seattle on I-5 and then east towards Spokane, turn south through Yakima to cross the Columbia River and finally east on I-84 247 miles into Boise.
Since I didn't end up heading for the Canadian-U.S. border until 6 a.m., I also forgot about Boise being in the Mountain time zone. I got to the Expo and registered at 5 p.m. Mountain time (with an hour to spare). What I can see of the city is that it is sort of like Albuquerque, New Mexico in a number of aspects. First, it is dry here and it sits at 2,600 feet above sea level. (Albuquerque, along the Rio Grande, where all three marathons there run near, sits at 5,000 feet above sea level.)
This race here promises water stops every 2 miles. I'll need to make sure that I take advantage of them. That was a problem in ABQ in April. Sure, I was gassed because I let my mileage go, but being dehydrated didn't make matters any easier.
Plus, the city is primarily flat. I had looked at Dean Karzanes' Endurance 50 site and he ran the full marathon course here (obviously) and there seems to be a 200 foot elevation gain at around mile 9. Otherwise, it is pretty tame.
Even though author and columnist Joe Henderson from Marathon & Beyond was there, I didn't stick around to talk as I wanted to get back here and work on getting to sleep to rest up for tomorrow.
The weather? Tonight it will be a low of 43 degrees with "a few showers developing late". Winds SE 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow, it says that it will be "a few showers early with overcast skies later in the day." High 59F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%
So, it will go from 44 degrees to 57 with rain early. And like I said, another state! Just never know when I'll get up here this close again without this project in Vancouver.
I was up at 4:30 a.m. Pacific, went downstairs in the apartment building and did a half hour on the treadmill. (I had done almost an hour Friday morning before the power in the apartment building went out. 53 minutes officially.) Started out easy at like 4.4 mph and added a .1 mph every 2 minutes. Got me loose for the drive south to Seattle on I-5 and then east towards Spokane, turn south through Yakima to cross the Columbia River and finally east on I-84 247 miles into Boise.
Since I didn't end up heading for the Canadian-U.S. border until 6 a.m., I also forgot about Boise being in the Mountain time zone. I got to the Expo and registered at 5 p.m. Mountain time (with an hour to spare). What I can see of the city is that it is sort of like Albuquerque, New Mexico in a number of aspects. First, it is dry here and it sits at 2,600 feet above sea level. (Albuquerque, along the Rio Grande, where all three marathons there run near, sits at 5,000 feet above sea level.)
This race here promises water stops every 2 miles. I'll need to make sure that I take advantage of them. That was a problem in ABQ in April. Sure, I was gassed because I let my mileage go, but being dehydrated didn't make matters any easier.
Plus, the city is primarily flat. I had looked at Dean Karzanes' Endurance 50 site and he ran the full marathon course here (obviously) and there seems to be a 200 foot elevation gain at around mile 9. Otherwise, it is pretty tame.
Even though author and columnist Joe Henderson from Marathon & Beyond was there, I didn't stick around to talk as I wanted to get back here and work on getting to sleep to rest up for tomorrow.
The weather? Tonight it will be a low of 43 degrees with "a few showers developing late". Winds SE 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow, it says that it will be "a few showers early with overcast skies later in the day." High 59F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%
So, it will go from 44 degrees to 57 with rain early. And like I said, another state! Just never know when I'll get up here this close again without this project in Vancouver.
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