A commenter asked me last week to write up a straight-forward post looking at the path I took to qualifying for the Boston Marathon.  I realized that I’ve dribbled the information all over my blog but I’ve never bothered to do a comprehensive post.  I read a similar post by Teal at Miles to the Trials, where she details her path from a 4:09 marathon to qualifying for the Olympic Trials, and so I’m going to model my post after hers (and by the way, if you haven’t read hers, you should – talk about freaking motivational!)

I ran my first marathon a little over six years ago, at Walt Disney World in Orlando.  My most recent marathon was last March in Albany, Georgia.  I’ve run about one marathon a year since 2010, which is when I decided that it made sense to pay someone a bunch of money to…