The Ten Day Forecast

Back in February of 2008 I claimed that the weather on Marathon Monday that year would be perfect. And by perfect I mean low 60's and sunny. The early hours of Marathon Monday in 2008 were overcast, but as soon as we got to the starting line it was sunny. If you don't believe me you can always ask Karla Corapi.

Now that I can look to the always reliable 10-day forecast on weather.com, I see that the forecast for Monday, April 20, is a high of 53 - low of 43 - with 30% chance of showers. Aside from being insanely cold in January, and getting hit with a snow storm a week before Christmas, the weather has cooperated and at points just been amazing for training.

At least right now I can assume that in the next 10 days, the weather will not fluctuate to below freezing or above 70, which would make for poor running conditions. Truthfully, I would prefer if it were in the 60's and sunny, which would work well for me, family, thousands watching, and the Red Sox game.

The weather will be stressing me out the entire week coming up until I know for sure what the weather will be. I have a good feeling that it will be much nicer than what weather.com has right now. Stay posted for the forecast.