Boston Marathon Watching Thread (Page 8)
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Bripod - 2008-04-21 3:07 PM enders_shadow - 2008-04-21 2:07 PM Tim is in - 4:17:23 WAY TO GO! w00t! beat me to it! Guess that means I'm a faster ![]() |
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Not a Coach ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 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. |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Here are the latest Stats:
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Master ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 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 |
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Elite ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() zia_cyclist - 2008-04-21 1:38 PM 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. |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 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 |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Yup, timing issue as I had hoped, looks like he is in but without a 40k Time Check:
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Here are the final results for the 112th running of the Boston Marathon:
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Thanks for watching and see you all next year and more than a few of you in Hoppington on Race Day |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() WaterDog66 - 2008-04-21 4:32 PM Thanks for watching and see you all next year and more than a few of you in Hoppington on Race Day congrats to all BT-ers! and thanks, waterdogg66 and all those who put up stats. this thread certainly made a crappy monday at work more entertaining! |
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![]() Yay, congrats to everyone! I doubt I'll ever make it there to race, but I'd love to come watch it again some day. ![]() |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 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. |
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Royal(PITA) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() SSMinnow - 2008-04-21 7:38 PM So much for the never go back rule! Glad you want to fight this one again! Congratulations to all the racers of this notoriously hard race!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. |
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Champion![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() SSMinnow - 2008-04-21 8:38 PM 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!
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Regular![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Wow, such great work by everybody! Some really scorching times too! Congrats are due all around! |
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Regular ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Thanks everyone for your encouragement!! Fortunately I was able to bring my laptop with me on the run to keep up with this thread. It's a small thinkpad and I have a fast connection so it didn't slow me down too much. Seriously (I'm on a hotel computer now), thanks for setting this up!! I just read through all the posts and it was a really cool to see. Congrats to everyone. I hope that your quads are nowhere near as sore as mine!! If they are, I would encourage you to drink a bunch of pints of Guinness. It's temporary relief but it's still relief ![]() |
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Regular ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() gracetheterp - 2008-04-21 12:39 PM That hill must have slowed down Paul a bit; he's now 20 seconds off a sub-3 pace. I hope he cranks it out!! While I would like to say I was delayed because I was making out with a bunch of Wellesley (sp??) girls (which would admittedly be creepy given my age), I got a pretty bad butt cramp somewhere in there and I had to stop and work it out. Thing is, I pretty much have no butt so I don't know where it came from. Maybe it was a phantom butt cramp. Who knows? Thanks for cheering me on, Grace!!! |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 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
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!
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Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() gracetheterp - 2008-04-21 11:15 AM Chris in 1:08:57. I hope he's doing OK; I know he wanted to finish in under 3, and he's at 3:14:19 pace right now. 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!
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