3-Day For The Cure: 6 Weeks Until Boston
Jun. 9th, 2011 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrThere are just six weeks left until the Boston 3-Day. It all starts on Friday, July 22, at Farm Pond in Framingham, Massachusetts... bright and early at 6:30 in the morning. And it all wraps up on the afternoon of Sunday, July 24, at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. In between, several thousand women and men will walk sixty miles, eat a lot of salty snacks and drink a lot of sport drink and water, and show the world just how much pink and lace you can jam on to one human body.
I'll be spending the weekend with my lovely bride Carole, driving a garbage truck along the route and stopping to pick up trash from each of the six rest stops (five pit stops and one grab 'n' go, if memory serves) along the way. As crew assignments go, it's not the most glamorous thing to be doing, but someone's gotta do it. That trash isn't going to haul itself.
Between now and then, there's still a lot of walking to do. The 3-Day organizers publish a suggested training schedule, emailed out to participants on a weekly basis, starting either 24 or 16 weeks before the event. Regardless of which training plan participants choose to follow, the upcoming weeks go like this:
Each week: walk 5-6 miles on Tuesday and Thursday
Week 6: Saturday: walk 10 miles. Sunday: walk 6 miles.
Week 5: Saturday: walk 18 miles. Sunday: walk 15 miles.
Week 4: Saturday: walk 10 miles. Sunday: walk 8 miles.
Week 3: Saturday: walk 18 miles. Sunday: walk 8 miles.
Week 2: Saturday: walk 10 miles. Sunday: walk 8 miles.
Week 1: Walk 20 miles, on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Carole and I are trying to follow the Boston training schedule even though we're crewing Boston. And that means that next weekend we've got the dreaded 18/15 coming up. That's the single hardest weekend of training on the 3-Day schedule. It's 33 miles in one weekend, on top of all the walking you've done during the week. It's a lot. It basically does wipe out the whole weekend unless you're an early riser and a fast walker.
But you've got to do it if you want to avoid being footsore and afflicted by shin splints and blisters and achy hips when you actually walk the 3-Day.
I'll be spending the weekend with my lovely bride Carole, driving a garbage truck along the route and stopping to pick up trash from each of the six rest stops (five pit stops and one grab 'n' go, if memory serves) along the way. As crew assignments go, it's not the most glamorous thing to be doing, but someone's gotta do it. That trash isn't going to haul itself.
Between now and then, there's still a lot of walking to do. The 3-Day organizers publish a suggested training schedule, emailed out to participants on a weekly basis, starting either 24 or 16 weeks before the event. Regardless of which training plan participants choose to follow, the upcoming weeks go like this:
Each week: walk 5-6 miles on Tuesday and Thursday
Week 6: Saturday: walk 10 miles. Sunday: walk 6 miles.
Week 5: Saturday: walk 18 miles. Sunday: walk 15 miles.
Week 4: Saturday: walk 10 miles. Sunday: walk 8 miles.
Week 3: Saturday: walk 18 miles. Sunday: walk 8 miles.
Week 2: Saturday: walk 10 miles. Sunday: walk 8 miles.
Week 1: Walk 20 miles, on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Carole and I are trying to follow the Boston training schedule even though we're crewing Boston. And that means that next weekend we've got the dreaded 18/15 coming up. That's the single hardest weekend of training on the 3-Day schedule. It's 33 miles in one weekend, on top of all the walking you've done during the week. It's a lot. It basically does wipe out the whole weekend unless you're an early riser and a fast walker.
But you've got to do it if you want to avoid being footsore and afflicted by shin splints and blisters and achy hips when you actually walk the 3-Day.
