Boston

This past weekend we drove to Boston for the marathon. It was a LONG drive. I'm grateful to be back home after spending days in the car. I have not really trained for the marathon distance, keeping my sights set on my first 100-miler in May. But I did quite well. I improved my PR/PB by 8 minutes and qualified again for next year. It's fun to tell people that this was only my second marathon, and that I didn't qualify for Boston with my other/first marathon. I actually qualified when I ran my second 50k race which was certified as a Boston qualifier, and supplied split times for the 26.2 mile mark.

For the last two months I have not been taking any hormones. The only medicine I have taken is an occasional half-pill of clonazapem to help with the anxiety. So I attribute most of my improvement to the surge of testosterone since I stopped taking spironolactone and estradiol.  I don't think it's fair if I were to run as a woman, even if I were post-op. And if I did, I'm sure I'd end up drawing more attention to myself than normal. It's hard enough struggling with GID - I don't want the hassle of being singled out as the fast transwoman too. I would have been in the top 100 at Boston if I had run as a woman - too fast to not get noticed.

I've been debating running a marathon as a woman, so I can start running Boston as a woman. Maybe when I get back on hormones and my secondary female characteristics reemerge stronger than their current state after two months of entropy.