Boston Marathon numbers have been announced and my official race number is 22630! One month until the marathon!

Registration is now open for the 29th Annual POW-MIA 5 Mile Race which is held in South Boston and runs along the scenic waterfront of Southie. This 5 miler is sanctioned by the USATF and has a great post-race celebration that will prove to be a good time. All of the proceeds from this race go to the POW-MIA Awareness Committee of Massachusetts which we can all agree is an extremely worthy cause!

This year’s POW-MIA 5 Mile Race will take place on June 24th at 10AM.

For more information on this race, please visit the race website by clicking here.

We left Bridgewater and it was clear and sunny and made our trip down to Plymouth. One would have thought we traveled hours away given the vast difference in weather. When we made it to Plymouth, snow was falling fast, the roads were covered and slick and cars were spun out across Route 3. We safely made it to downtown Plymouth and made our way to the starting line for the Pace to Pint 5k.

The race started off on Water Street right near the historic Mayflower and Plymouth Rock and ran across Plymouth harbor for a pretty good stretch. The wind was whipping pretty good and the chill coming off the water was definitely something to contend with. The course was very well staffed with volunteers at each turn and the course was a pretty flat course with a little hill coming off of a bike rail trail heading back up to Main Street.

The race finished off right back in front of the water and water, bananas and Hint water was provided. Each runner also received a coozie and one free Harpoon beer ticket good at a variety of restaurants and bars abutting the course. We opted to go to T-Bones Roadhouse BBQ for our free Harpoon IPA which hit the spot post race!

Had a really good race especially with the cold, windy and slushy conditions. Finished the Pace to Pint 5k with a time of 23:29 good for 7:32/miles.

Had a great time this morning heading out for a 16 mile training run. Mrs. Running Griffin and I ran the 16 miles together which took us through Bridgewater and Raynham. We had some good hills mixed into today’s run particularly the hill over on King Phillip Street near the Raynham Recreation fields.

The pace this morning was nice and fortunately we got the majority of the run in before the 40-50 MPH winds started whipping through the area. We did have a couple of flurries fluttering down throughout the run but for the most part the weather was crisp, refreshing and altogether pretty nice out there.

We both felt as though we are on a pretty good pace for the Boston Marathon and today’s run was a good long run for the both of us. And of course, after running 16 miles the best way to recover is some barbecue food which we had at Blue Ribbon BBQ in Newton. Nothing like a rewarding plate of pulled pork, beans and cornbread to enjoy post-16 miler!

On Sunday, Mrs. Running Griffin and I ran the Old Fashioned Ten Miler in Foxboro, Massachusetts. I decided to use this as a casual recovery run having done a 10k the day before and still feeling some pain from the surgery a week before.

If you have never done the Old Fashioned Ten Miler, it is a race you need to put on your bucket list. It is a great course that runs through residential neighborhoods and has a moderately challenging variation in terms of running grades. At one point you get to run on the road that abuts Gillette Stadium which makes for something pretty cool to look at as you are running.

Organized by the Wampanoag Road Runners, the OFTM has a great stretch of course that runs on streets that wind through state forest land and the course is just about as good as a ten miler can get. There is great course support along the way and the post-race food and raffles are well worth sticking around for.

We finished the race at a good steady pace for Mrs. Running Griffin with a time of 1:48:59 good for 10:54/miles.