EXORDIUM BY WAYNE NIELSEN
I recently ran my 23rd marathon.
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elcome to Issue 97, our Upgrades & New Technology, SubTel Forum 16th Anniversary and pre-PTC ’18 edition.
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I am constantly amazed that no matter how much training, dieting, etc., goes into the long preparation, the day’s weather can almost negate this effort. So, for the six months before I had dutifully run multiple times a week, slowly increasing my long weekend distance by a mile a week until I reached 23 miles just a few weeks before the race. I even started a new strategy of tracking calories in an App, which benefited in the loss of a bunch of weight that was unceremoniously collected over the last decade or so. I went so far as to track the last 22
year’s marathon runs, graphing on an annual basis my weight versus total race time, and much to my astonishment, learned that there was a direct correlation between my weight on race day and the resulting time! Believe it or not, the more I weighed, the slower my time. Shocking. So, here I am. In my mind’s eye, I am Cut - Rested - Raring to go.
I’m almost to the point of measuring the non-existent mantel for the virtual trophy. And then the day before, something funny happened; Indian Summer came back with a vengeance. And perfect running temperatures were replaced with a warm spell that promised high 70s F by the time I planned to finish. So, two days before race time I did a re-think on my strategy, up-