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 It’s so exciting that all my family, friends, and tons of people I didn’t even know were signed up and watching my marathon status as I ran. It almost makes me wish that any of it worked. As you can tell from the label, this photo proves I ran the marathon. As luck would have it, the . . . → Read More: What do you mean there are no results? Last night, I received a donation that put my total just $1 over my goal of raising $5,000. This is fantastic news, and I’m so excited that I was able to reach it before the marathon. When I began I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make the $3,250 minimum, let alone my . . . → Read More: Personal fundraising goal met! With just seven days left until Marathon Monday, I thought it would be good to post some updates. Starting with… The Marathon The most common question that I’ve been getting asked recently is “Are you still running?” I don’t know whether to be offended that people think I’m going to back out or relieved that they wouldn’t be . . . → Read More: One Week Left!  Reporter Kenn Stark interviewed me and ran a profile in the Media Town Talk, a newspaper local to my hometown. The article seems to cover everything from childhood through my future plans, but it especially focuses on the marathon and my fundraising. “Brookhaven native Ryan Schoen has always been good with math, but the only numbers he’ll . . . → Read More: Profile in the Media Town Talk  If you’ve been monitoring my training runs over the past few weeks, you’ll see that I’ve slowly been working up my speed and distance. It’s nothing like a marathon yet – but progress is better than nothing. The reason I haven’t yet made a post proclaiming that I’m cured is because those times are a little bit . . . → Read More: Oh… I get it.  The Cambridge Chronicle today published an article featuring all of those who are running in “the 115th Boston Marathon to help conquer cancer as members of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team” …including yours truly. It isn’t much, but recognition is always appreciated: Cambridge residents run Boston Marathon. The Cambridge Chronicle is a physical newspaper, right? Does anyone know . . . → Read More: Cambridge Chronicle Features Dana-Farber Runners Well, almost. I’ve spent the month and a half since my last post making regular visits to MIT Sports Medicine and the fantastic guys over at Sports and Physical Therapy Associates, and doing all sorts of creative and embarrassing stretches. It turns out that what I thought would be an injury for a week or maybe two… . . . → Read More: Back to the grind  Recently the MIT news office published an article on the science behind marathon running, based on the research of an MIT grad student. The goal of the research was to determine at what pace marathon runners can expect to run marathons. If they run too fast, the research can also estimate when they should expect to . . . → Read More: Marathon running, MIT style  For those of you who have been watching my training runs (read: no one), you might have noticed that I haven’t been doing much of anything over the past week or so. That’s because I’ve already had my first learning experience – don’t overtrain. Although I haven’t been officially diagnosed (yet), it’s pretty clear that I have . . . → Read More: Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: “Runner’s Knee” 
Thank you to the many of you who have already ordered t-shirts! It looks like we’ll be able to get the shirts cheaper than expected since I’ll be buying in bulk, which is fantastic. I will be placing the order early next week, so this is your last chance to order one. Just fill out the form . . . → Read More: Last chance to order t-shirts! |
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