Ever wondered how much carbohydrate those lean, mean elite athletes eat the night before a race? Think of a decent-sized portion of pasta, double it, add rice, then a bread roll and you're just about there. Staying in the same Lisbon hotel as Martin Lel, Sammy Wanjiru, Kara Gouc...
the off made it hard to stay warm and motivated – bring a sleeping bag and travel Scrabble. And at the end in Central Park, baggage buses that were lined up along one side of a narrow road meant it took up to an hour to exit the finish zone because
years of anticipation, four months of training, 3,000 miles of travel and a missed kiss from the future first female President of the USA really come to this?Making the cutMy road to Boston started in April 2009, when I ran a personal best of 3