Boston Marathon in a Nor’Easter (2007)

Ok, ok…..

I didn’t know I had such a following! You better watch out or I’ll get a swelled head.  As the endnote to my adventures in Beantown, my beloved Honda perished, so my priority the past few days has lied (lay? I should know that one…) with finding a way to get to work, not with putting photos in a ten-page race report few people will actually read.

Lucky for you, I had a 6 1/2 hour plane ride home Saturday night – before I knew the car’s fate – so this was almost complete anyway. 

Enjoy the – as always – highly self-indulgent tome! Click here for the full (really long) Race Report with pictures

The short version:

The Boston Marathon is THE hardest thing I have ever done.  In my entire life.  I’ve gotten a few conciliatory emails which, though obviously very well-intentioned, suggest perhaps I had a terrible race (which is a fair assumption, given that 1) we ran in a nor’easter, 2) I was in the bottom 20% of the finishers and 3) my time of 4:23 was 45 minutes slower than my PR of 3:39.  See, didn’t even make you read the whole thing to find out how I did.).  Was it a terrible race?  No.  Harder than Ironman?  Ohmygod, yes.  I knew Boston was hard.  But until I ran it, I had no idea how difficult it truly was – and frankly that made crossing the finish line that much sweeter.

Thanks for all your love and support – it means the world.  For the down-and-dirty version, read the 10 pages attached.  Then buy me a car.

See ya on the run.