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So jealous that you’re in Beantown! Have a great time with the girl, running, grilling and taking in your Boston experience! I’m sure it’ll be awesome. Love your dedication that you will even run at 10:20pm after a full day.
Best of luck in the race and the weekend!
Best of Luck at the Marathon…enjoy your weekend!! :)
Good luck with your race and have fun!
My family and I went to Boston once. We took a tour of Fenway which was pretty interesting. Also took one of those boat tours. Windy!
1) the run home is insane. i love it.
2) i wish i could be there to cheer you on! i am glad you will have lots of support. have an amazing trip!!! let me know if you have any boston questions. have fun!
A hockey game followed by a run?! AWESOME.
Enjoy Boston!!!
Holy smokes, that is some serious dedication! A hockey game and then a super speedy tempo run? Safe travels to Boston, and have a great time out there!!!
That run looked amazing. When I was over in DC a few months ago I went walking around the monuments at night. It was spectacular!
Have fun Ray! I’m sure you’ll do great!
Growing up Rhode Island I have many great memories of Patriots Day in the 60’s and 70’s it meant three things to a kid in Rhode Island. First the kids up in the Bay State had the day off from school and that did not seem fair. Second the Red Sox always had a 10 AM game by the time I got to High School most of the times I think I was always sick on that day. But I always made a quick recovery and the guys all made the drive up to Bean Town. Something about Patriots Day was special it was a lot like opening day because we were still kids without much money we would always buy cheap bleacher tickets. If you know Fenway Park the bleacher seats exits are a quick walk to where the finish line was the Boston Marathon or as we all know it as the “BA”. I still recall seeing the athletes who had just competed in the Olympic Games run the BA. And often we would just hang round for hours and just watch the rest of field come through. We witness people young and old complete the BA but I still think the handicap athletes who competed in the BA always will have a special place in my heart.
The BA is very special and you should feel a special honor to have the privilege to compete in this great race. The BA is a great race and you will trace the footsteps of some of greatest runners in the world. Enjoy your first one and as you run by every fan on the course remember that most of them are in great awe of what you are doing on this day.
Oh thank you for the delightful pictures of your magical (impromptu?!) late night run in the rain.
We enjoyed the great Boston expo.
Not impressed with the spaghetti dinner.
Best wishes for a memorable successful race!
Good luck Ray, have a great race!
you might get this too late…
hopefully you see the good wishes before….enjoy…its a helluva event……
looks like you’ll have many good experiences with
The Girl