Rockin’ Weekend

It was a rockin’ weekend in Vegas as I watched my best bud Sean McKeon chop 5 minutes and 8 seconds off his previous marathon best to record a new PR of 2:36:26 at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon this morning. My main man from Millbury ended up running the final 18 miles all by his lonesome on a blustery 36 degree in Sin City, but fought tough all the way through to finish 17th place amongst a solid field. Sean has put in a 12 solid weeks of work — including a half marathon PR in San Jose — and has no doubt set himself up nicely for a solid spring of racing in 2010. As his best friend and coach, I am super excited for him!

In addition to my support and coaching duties, I unexpecedly found myself on assignment for Competitor Running (www.runnow.com) and wrote a post-race recap, which can be found here.