OT: Cool facts from today's Boston Marathon

[Blakeon18]

Low temperatures and a tailwind led to a men's record 2 hours one minute and 52 seconds Yikes!

Men's winner Johh Korir [Kenyan] winner and he also won last year.
Women's winner Sharon Lokeda [Kenyan] also won last year.

30,000 runners


Best USA man Zouhair Talbi 5th place
Best USA woman Jess McClain 5th place

Both races dominated by African runners. What a surprise! Uhh...NOT!

Prize money...same for both men and women

First place $150,000
Second place $75,000
Third place $40,000

With NIL money in college basketball I bet that $150,000 won't get
you a decent back-up point guard.

Buy yourself a seat just over the Green Monster....turn around and you get to
see the runners below nearing the finish line.

Boston Marathon; still and hopefully furthermore one of the great
sporting events in the USA.

 

[Bigboote]

Suni Williams may be the first current astronaut to finish Boston. I don’t know if it’s the case, but it’s still pretty cool.

 

[BRS24]

Loved Marathon Day when in college in MA, we got Patriot's Day off and a nice 3 day weekend.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Chelsea Clinton ran about 3:45. Very respectable for a non-athlete.

 

[Wally East]

Chelsea Clinton ran about 3:45. Very respectable for a non-athlete.

Anyone who runs a marathon is an athlete 🙂

 

[Phil]

My daughter finished in 3:30. Not her best time, but her first Boston.

 

[Blakeon18]

Phil: Congratulations to her!
What did she think of the stretch of 5 or 6 miles ending at BC...with all those hills?
What is her best....and where was it?

 

[MilfordHusky]

Anyone who runs a marathon is an athlete 🙂

I guess I am a 3-time athlete. 😁

 

[Phil]

Her pb is 3:25 (Hartford last October).

The hills took a lot out of her which disappointed her because she did hill training. He lives upon a hill in town that's almost exactly the same altitude gain as Heartbreak Hill so that she be prepared but I watched her time as she ran and I could see a distinct slowdown on some of the hills. She said it was hills before Heartbreak Hill that were problematic so maybe the one you are talking about.

 

[jaundicedeye]

Loved Marathon Day when in college in MA, we got Patriot's Day off and a nice 3 day weekend.

I have fond memories of my Boston marathon run. Great tradition, great crowd. One had to qualify to enter back in '82.
I ran 2:46 and was surprised at how the hills weren't that bad. I still had gas in the tank.

 

[Bigboote]

I have fond memories of my Boston marathon run. Great tradition, great crowd. One had to qualify to enter back in '82.
I ran 2:46 and was surprised at how the hills weren't that bad. I still had gas in the tank.

One still has to qualify or raise a whole bunch of money for charity. I was never able to do either. Several times I aged into a slower qualifying time, but my finishing times got even slower.

 

[MilfordHusky]

One still has to qualify or raise a whole bunch of money for charity. I was never able to do either. Several times I aged into a slower qualifying time, but my finishing times got even slower.

I needed to get faster or get older. Sadly, I got older, but not quickly enough.

 

[FanSince17]

Her pb is 3:25 (Hartford last October).

The hills took a lot out of her which disappointed her because she did hill training. He lives upon a hill in town that's almost exactly the same altitude gain as Heartbreak Hill so that she be prepared but I watched her time as she ran and I could see a distinct slowdown on some of the hills. She said it was hills before Heartbreak Hill that were problematic so maybe the one you are talking about

One still has to qualify or raise a whole bunch of money for charity. I was never able to do either. Several times I aged into a slower qualifying time, but my finishing times got even slower.

Same with me. In my "heyday" I was a 3:00 marathoner, eventually 2:57, and I needed a 2:50 to qualify. Then, I started a real-life work schedule and just dabbled for 11 years. I took a buyout, started getting teacher credentials, including a year off and tried it again in Pittsburgh. 3:16, and I needed a 3:15. Oh well, I never ran Boston. Running was great though!

 

[Phil]

I have fond memories of my Boston marathon run. Great tradition, great crowd. One had to qualify to enter back in '82.
I ran 2:46 and was surprised at how the hills weren't that bad. I still had gas in the tank.

Impressive time.

 

[WiseWillie]

As a former marathoner in my younger running days (2 Boston's, 2 NYC's, 2 Marine Corps, 1 Chicago, 1 Pittsburgh, and 2 Steamtown) I congratulate the Boston Marathon runners. Boston is the top of the heap for amateur marathoners. It takes discipline to train for Boston because while many marathons are run in the fall and you can train over the spring and summer, but or Boston which is run on Patriot's Day or the third Monday of April, your training is done a lot in the winter and for east coasters that means going out in 15 degree weather or less in the ice and snow to run 10 or more training miles. That's either dedication or what my wife would remind me when I returned from a winter run looking like the reincarnated ice man was crazy.

Again, my hearty congrats to all runners and families. For those contemplating a marathon: the pain is temporary; pride is forever. And for those training for one or know of someone who is, the next one could be the PB. Good luck.

 

[jaundicedeye]

Well-stated WiseWillie Spoken like a veteran NE marathoner. Yes, the pride is forever and the memories are, as well. My distance running and marathoning days were some of the happiest of my life. Aside from the exuberance of running, I miss the camaraderie of my team and training buddies.
P.S. (4 NYC's; 3 LI's; 2 Marine Corp's; 2 Jersey Shore's; 1 Boston; 1 Ocean State; 1 San Francisco; 1 Philadelphia)

 

[Bigboote]

Yeah, I liked mid-late-fall marathons. Summers in Maryland are hot, so I didn’t want to be running 20 till October. There is a local half the second weekend of September, which coordinated well with ramping up.
(2 Marine Corps, 2 Maine, 6 Harrisburg)