Great race! We gotta change your name from Salty to Speedy, because you are busting out some serious splits. A FIVE MINUTE PR when you are already so stinking fast?? Dammm gurrl!

Look out Kara and Desi, America's gonna have a new long distance speedster sweetheart before you know it!

PS - Imagine if you HAD had your pre-race beer...10 minute PR?

As usual, you rock!

You forgot to list "no pre-race beer" as something that limited your ability to perform faster.

Cheech looking dude bandits a race AND tries to race our speedy Salty. Two strikes against Cheech. The idea of a Cheech-looking dude running a 1/2 makes me chuckle.

That back-n-forth at the end looks like a serious mind game. But as usual, you knocked it out of the park, even as a "B" race.

And we'll say "I knew her when..."

Holy smokin' crazy podium PR mofo gravel outnbackoutnback B-WTF-race fast!!!

A few notes.

-JOGGING as a warmup?! with such pigletude around?

-stuck to the plan, raced your race

-A race report mentioning Cheech and Chong is A+

Salty, I've said it a hundred times and I'll keep saying it cuz it's true: YOU ROCK!!!

8th overall woman would've been higher even without trying if not for: "Shoot. I hate to say it but I was so exhausted Friday night I didn't even have a night before beer. :("

But seriously, great job!  You had a plan and you stuck to it.  Excellent, excellent work oh speedy one!

Holy Maui Wowie Salty!  You smoked it!

That is a rediculously fast pace, there must have been smoke coming out from under your shoes and that's why Cheech was trying to keep up.  Are you sure he ddn't say something like "hey smokin' hot fast babe, can I have a hit?"

Great race, your hard work is paying off, I'm super proud of you!

Nice race -- good work on pacing it carefully from the start, and that's a nice PR.

Re: Boston. You might find that it's not the cluster that you're expecting at the start. Because of the qualifying times, the corral assignment at Boston is far more accurate than it is at other marathons. And because of the narrow roads out of Hopkinton there's really minimal opportunity for passing early on. The year that I did it they had the largest ever field, and I expected it to be a disaster at the start, but it turned out to be the smoothest race start that I can remember. Everybody was so well seeded that the mass of humanity simply flowed perfectly for the first miles. No need to pass, no need to slow down, just go with the flow. The big temptation that then needs to be controlled is the urge to go crazy once the road opens up a bit and it becomes possible to pass.

That is am amazing amount of pot references in one post. I applaud you, sir!  And thank you!

Yeah on one hand you are probably right. It's going to be a lot better than any race I have ever been in. Everything will be. The only thing that worries me is that my seeding time is a lot slower than what I plan to finish in. But that's alright. It's not a HUGE difference and I have 26.2 to spread the time over so it should be just fine. 

And thank you SO much everyone. Seriously it means a lot that you continue to take the time to read my nonsense race reports and then even care to comment on them.

I am so sorry I let you all down on the beer thing. I'll try harder. 

Great race!

BUT.... had you had your night-before-beer, you might had 1stAG  ;-)  (sorry, had to point that one out)  

Awesome run!

Ah yes, that's a good point. With your seeding time you'll be starting right in the thick of the pack, and it won't really be feasible to make up time in the opening miles. No other marathon in the US has so many people running below 3:20 pace, and no other large marathon has such narrow roads at the start, so you're kinda stuck. Perhaps you'll just need to live with the fact that it will be a negative split day. You'll be sprinting up Heartbreak Hill.

Enjoy the little down week and vacation - you certainly have earned it!