Boston Marathon Watching Thread (Page 8)

Andy (southwestmba) is done at 4:11:06. 

Congrats Andy!  You can now add Boston to your resume, which already had Kona from last year. 

Congrats Tim!!!!!

Here are the latest Stats:

c'mon Todd, your almost there

I've been watching the Track My Athlete website.  It appears some of these guys still have their GPS transponders with them.  One guy is on the Intersate and doing 0.83'/mile.  I thought that was funny.

Great job BT'ers!  Lots of strong finishes at Boston.

TJ

Yeah, in the group I've been watching, one guy's headed back toward the Cape, another is headed west.  Most seem to be still hanging out in Boston.

Still one more runner out on the course

Todd is expected shortly at the 40k Timing Mats.

Go Todd!

Good job BTrs! 

It has been 90 minutes since his last update (35k) and he was hitting 45 minute 5k splits pretty consistently.

Hopefully it is just an issue with the timing system and he has in fact finished. (But the updates are delayed)

Will keep checking and update if I find something

Yup, timing issue as I had hoped, looks like he is in but without a 40k Time Check:

Here are the final results for the 112th running of the Boston Marathon:

Thanks for watching and see you all next year and more than a few of you in Hoppington on Race Day

Thanks for doing this.  It is great to go back and read all of the updates.

It was a tough day for me--way too much cramping, but hey it's Boston.  At least I have the chance to go back and fight the good fight next year.

I kept looking for you all morning before the start.  It's hard trying to find someone in a sea of 25,000 runners.  Even hanging out near your corral and looking for your race number didn't work.  I did get a couple of pics of BT-ers...wish I could have found you all.  Nice race though, you had a perfect day for running!

Volunteering was a blast - they kept me busy!  I was at the mile 18.05 water stop - stationed between the two water stations (the leaders wanted to know where the doc was) and since mile 18 is the second hill (heartbreak being the third) lots of people were cramping, feeling the effects of dehydration....and the majority of them were very experienced marathoners!

Only was able to actually pick out Todd (Chirunner). 

The amount of times I ran down to help someone and walk/support/run someone to gatorade/med tent....I think might have added up to a half marathon anyway I got to do hill repeats!

What I learned about cheering people - hard to read names on arms and legs - they are moving!  So was able to read and call out  when names are on front of body and clear - some people had all sorts of complicated stuff - 

 I cannot believe how fast the leaders were running up the hill - and at mile 18!!! They casually run up at my all out sprint pace on the flats!!!  Impressive to watch -

Congrats to all of you!

Thanks Grace, and everyone, for cheering us on! While I did go to Boston dreaming sub-3, I set out with a 3:10 pace band that morning. A bathroom stop, shoe-lace retie, some cramping, and a Boston fan holding what looked like a live, full sized penguin in his outstretched hand (please tell me someone else saw this) put the goal out of reach. It felt good, though, to keep the pace at even effort on the hills and to cruise into downtown with something left in the tank.

Well, this thread just cemented it for me.  Paul (pshorty) and I talked at the Boston pre-race dinner about how well the BT site is organized and the tremendous variety of Tri-support this space offers -- yet how its really is all of the people who train and post that make it so wonderful. Reading through the posts was really inspiring. (Do you guys work at all?!) Thank you all for being so supportive and cheering us on from afar. Can't wait to do the same for you!