Marathon strategy

This week Blake will be writing about her mental preparation for the Boston Marathon. We may get a peek into her strategy for the race. When it comes to making a scouting report on the course there are tools out there that make it pretty easy, like this interactive map of the course. Meanwhile, here on the Monterey Peninsula the Big Sur Marathon folks are still ironing out the details for the new out-and-back course that was made necessary by last month's landslide. There's a useful question-and-answer section on the marathon's website, www.bsim.org