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Race Reports for Boston Marathon

[101]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Due to injury I ran very little from January through early March. I did a cram training program and basically trained for 1 month. If properly trained this is a good course for me.
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[102]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: For my first and possibly last time doing this race, it's hard to sum it all up. It's the MECA of Marathons, and was my long time goal. I had a great time, and enjoyed it. The people of Boston were wonderful, and I toured the city for a few days afterward and had a great time. It's a city I look forward to going back to one day....marathon or not.
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[103]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Running this race is almost surreal. The crowds, the tradition, the culture of Boston and the race - just incredible. Everything about this race was so well put together and organized to the best of standards. Its Boston, do I really need to say more about it? Im really happy with the effort that I put into this race. I was training really hard because I really wanted to kill this course and whip out a PR. This race ended up being about a 13 minute PR for me, on a much harder course. Im happy to say that I feel like I paced near perfectly, navigated the hills very well and ripped off the last kick with everything that was left in the tank. Exactly the way I wanted to run this race. Im also very happy that the last 5k of the race was my fastest 5k split. The second half of the race is more difficult than the first and I managed to run that faster than the first half. I ran the first half in 1:28:22 and second half in 1:28:11. All the negative split training really paid off.
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[104]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I had a great time overall, just a bad race. Boston's reputation as the spectator supported and best marathon "experience" is well earned and truly amazing. I was surprised that I wasn't upset by such a crappy performance from me, but realized that the fans cheering you on, the kids who beam with joy as you take an orange slice from them and the overall positive vibe even in the worst conditions in years makes this an amazing thing to have earned the honor to participate in! How can you really have a "bad day" when you just finished the Superbowl of marathons!
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[105]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: awesome. great expo. great fans. great aid stations (although could use more food). tough, but cool course. "if you have the means, i highly recommend it"
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[106]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Dinner: we ended up at a longhorn steakhouse, we felt it best to not go back into downtown plus we were too hungry to wait and too tire to walk that far. The 20oz porterhouse was righ, perfect! Coldstone's "chocolate devotion" followed dinner...haven't had ice cream in weeks (months) and it was awesome. After walking back to the hotel and packing, I went to Chris's room (another running companion) and recapped the day over a couple beers!
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[107]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Boston is simply the best. The volunteers are amazing, especially given the terrible conditions. Everyone was still out there helping us out with everything they could and still had the energy to cheer us on. The crowds were amazing, and I am so happy they still came out to support, even though the weather wasn't great. The entire city gets pumped about the race, and the atmosphere is infectious. Since I wore my official Boston jacket, a whole bunch of complete strangers wished me luck- on the T, at the store, at the hotel- it was awesome! The course is really tough, but I bet there are tougher courses out there. Train on hills, and beef up your quads. If you train smart, you can go wicked fast :)
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[108]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Super tough course, and most physically challenging marathon I've done yet mostly because of the course combined with the Nor'easter weather storm. Good experience though, proud of how I handled it all.
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[109]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: It's Boston; a piece of history. Always a privilege.
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[110]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Lot of people cramping on the course. Rough day and no more marathons. Fun has got to be the #1 deal.
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[111]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Boston is everything it is hyped up to be and worth every step I ran to get there. I can't wait to go back in 2007!!!!
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[112]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I decided to keep a bit of a diary in the weeks leading up to the race. I've got lots of thoughts bouncing around in my head but I'd rather not stir up a lot of excitement and pressure from the forums. I really need to remain focused...but I still want to get my thoughts down on "paper" I'll publish everything along with my race report once the race is in the books. March 30 - So I've been thinking about this race a lot. I'm excited, anxious, and confident. I can't get over how well my training has been going the last 10 days or so. It's like someone flipped a switch and I instantly became faster and more efficient. If I didn't know better I'd swear I just started taking EPO or something. Really, the difference is dramatic and seemed to come overnight. My last 10 weeks of training have been very consistent so I feel like I'm ready to give it my best shot. I decided that I'd be satisfied if I can PR...anything faster is a bonus. But with what I've been seeing from my training
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[113]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Awesome, awesome race. Any marathoner needs to experience this race at some point in their life. I'd say every year for the rest of your life, if you can manage it =)
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[114]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: organizing 20k plus runners is a herculean task. Boston does it right.
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[115]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: BOSTON is an experience that you will NOT forget. For me, it was my first marathon and it was a great one. I don't know if I want to run another one, but I'm so glad that I did Boston. Not only is it a great race, but the people are SO friendly, the town is so cool, it's beyond words. I say the course was too hard because I didn't respect it. I now respect not only the Boston Course, but the Marathon itself.
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[116]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: My previous PR for a marathon was 3:26. Getting a 7+ minute PR on the Boston course is something I will cherish for sure. My pre-race prediction came true to run 3:20 or better. My run training consisted of 3X runs per week, and my longest run prior to Boston was just 15 miles max...Plan to take some time off and recover...
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[117]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I love this race... the people are amazing! I want to run it again next year but Lilia and I want to do the St. Croix Half Ironman in May... the timing of both are too close so it will be one or the other. Run this race!
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