When I think of this day, it will always bring me back memories. It is the most difficult day ever running with the flag.
The race started at 5:00 am in the morning but it is more like 10am in Boston. My friend Aaron and I arrived the day before and haven’t really adjusted to the jet lag. I am still recovering from my sickness from China. I had a running nose and coughing like there was no tomorrow. In fact my sickness seemed to get worse. We didn’t have a good night sleep at all and had low energy for the entire time.
Liyan Guo's blog
2007-12-09 Hawaii Marathon
Trip to China
I am leaving for a trip to China. I was contemplating on weather I should bring the flag with me. I decided not. It is just too big to carry. I did a bunch of running in my hometown Kunming. It is 1 mile above the sea level and I had difficulty breathing. My plan was to build up my hemoglobin at a higher altitude. Generally the more red blood cells you have the better you feel in Marathon since the more red blood cell can carry more Oxygen. You body will generate more red blood cell at higher altitude to compensate the lack of oxygen at higher altitude. Since I exercised for all five days in China, my red blood cell count will increase. The excess of red blood cell wont die until 120 days after I went back to see level.
Weekend Long Run
The 13 miles run this weekend was great. I started at 10:00am sharp. When I got to the Charles River there were a lot people walking. There was some event going on the trail was very crowed until after Harvard Square. Nothing else interesting to write today.
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A Great Day to Run
This is a better day to run than yesterday. It was cool, sunny and no wind. The temperature was perfect.
Because of excessive wearing the PVC part of the flag broke today. I had to hold the flag with both hand for part of the way. It’s a good thing it happened on a nice day. I guess I will need to get it replaced this weekend.
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Running Schedule for the Month
I came up a running schedule for this month.
format: (date - miles)
11 - 11 miles
12 - 11 miles
13 - 11 miles
14 - biking (need to take change of clothing from/to work to/from home)
15 - 13 miles (slow long runs help build up endurance)
16 - 6 miles jog (recover)
17 - biking (need to take change of clothing from/to work to/from home)
18 - 11m
19 - 11 m with 2x tempo run (builds up speed and endurance for the Marathon)
20 - 11 m
21 - biking (need to take change of clothing from/to work to/from home)
22 - 15 miles run - endurance
23 - 5 miles - recovery
