If you ran 2010 Boston Share Your Experiences Here

I would like to know what the wind was like. They blitzed the last half of the course.

Pretty much a cross-wind for most of the race...at some points I felt it behind me, sometimes dead into it (partiularly after heartbreak), but for the most part, a left to right cross wind.

Conditions were ideal for a PR. Cold, no rain, tail wind for quite a bit of the time. Usually I get blasted by sea breeze on the 2nd half of course...not today. Even had a tailwind going up Heartbreak Hill.

Did you run the same race I did? First guy had it right. As much in your face as behind you. Mostly a cross wind. I remember turning to a guy next to me at one point and said, "so much for a tail wind!". It was smack on our face at points.

I ran NY this past fall, and everyone thought that was "so windy". I thought they were comparable. I ran 4 minutes faster in NY and I was better trained for Boston.

I cramped really early today, so I can't blame it on the weather, but it was surely not a tail wind the whole way.

Nice day to run in Boston. Some headwind, some tailwind and some crosswind. The best part was the lack of strong winds either way and rain. Great day to run long!

road rashed wrote:

Nice day to run in Boston. Some headwind, some tailwind and some crosswind. The best part was the lack of strong winds either way and rain. Great day to run long!

Agreed...I felt the wind was pretty much a non-issue...didn't help, didn't hurt. Temperature was facntastic.

If you have the impression that the wind was pretty even, some head, some tailwind, then chances are that your impression fools you.

People generally feel headwind a lot heavier than tailwind. Also keep in mind you're moving.

Not discrediting anyone who ran Boston today, but Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot is not going to run another 2h05m at any other WMM.

Drew Bean ran 2:28 today?

overpriced entry fee, hotels too expensive, boring town. last time for us.

I love Boston, this is the best race ever. The energy from the crowd was great. If it didn't cost so much to register, fly and get a hotel I would try to run this race every year. The fans are great, the volunteers rock.

Conditions were ideal for a personal best. The wind didn't really help, I felt a headwind for a a few miles. The temperature was pretty ideal too. Sweet race.

It was expensive. Better to run other, cheaper thons around your town unless you are in it for mental therapy. I mean a Coke in Fargo tastes the same as a coke in El Centro, Mobile, Ogallala, Waubunsee, and Boston.

I was there running and there really was not that much tail wind. There was the occasional gust at our backs but generally it was constant crosswind, and that also included the occasional gust of headwind. The only time there was anything close to a constant tailwind was up the hills on Commonwealth. And right before the turn at the fire station there was a pretty strong headwind. The recorded weather history proves it- strong N and NW winds all day. And I checked it in Natick- a flag there was blowing exactly perpendicular to the course

Here are the four NOAA weather stations surrounding the area:

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBOS.html

Logan

19 13:54 NW 12 G 20 10.00 Mostly Cloudy BKN050 BKN250 55 33 57 44 29.86 1011.1

19 12:54 W 15 10.00 Mostly Cloudy BKN050 53 33 29.85 1010.8

19 11:54 NW 15 G 21 10.00 Overcast SCT048 OVC075 54 32 29.85 1010.7

19 10:54 NW 17 10.00 Partly Cloudy FEW045 SCT250 52 31 29.85 1010.9

19 09:54 NW 13 10.00 Partly Cloudy FEW045 SCT250 50 32 29.86 1011.1

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KORH.html

Worcester

19 12:54 N 13 G 20 10.00 Overcast SCT044 OVC065 51 30 29.86 1011.5

19 11:54 NW 17 G 25 10.00 Mostly Cloudy BKN042 49 30 29.85 1011.6

19 10:54 NW 21 G 29 10.00 A Few Clouds and Breezy FEW044 48 27 29.86 1011.7

19 09:54 N 12 G 24 10.00 A Few Clouds FEW037 47 29 29.86 1011.8

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBED.html

Hanscomb Field in Bedford

19 12:56 N 10 G 17 10.00 Overcast OVC050 53 34 29.85 1012.0

19 11:56 NW 13 G 20 10.00 Overcast SCT048 OVC070 52 33 29.85 1012.0

19 10:56 N 14 G 22 10.00 Fair CLR 52 34 29.85 1012.3

19 09:56 N 13 G 25 10.00 Fair CLR 50 34 29.85 1012.3

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KOWD.html

Norwood Airport

19 12:53 N 13 G 20 10.00 Overcast BKN049 OVC065 54 31 29.85 1010.8

19 11:53 N 9 10.00 Partly Cloudy SCT049 54 31 29.85 1010.7

19 10:53 N 12 G 20 10.00 Fair CLR 52 31 29.86 1011.0

19 09:53 NW 15 G 23 10.00 A Few Clouds FEW038 50 32 29.86 1011.2

Having run in 07 and 09, I'd say the great thing about yesterday was NOT having constant headwinds to deal with. However, I had a pretty bad race because I was undertrained- still, I was doing alright until heartbreak at 20.

I do also recall a couple spots on Beacon Street where especially tall buildings on the right were deflecting the wind back down onto the street.

Terrible, terrible finish. Couldn't finish with the pace I had through mile 20 or so. Huge mistake was taking in those caffinated gels. This one doesn't even match my 5th place result at the Cape in '09.

Anthony

Yeah,don't take the reports of tailwind as complete fact. Having run it yesterday, there were a few times with wind in my face. Basically the wind was all over the place and in different directions it seemed yesterday.

Nutella1 wrote:

If you have the impression that the wind was pretty even, some head, some tailwind, then chances are that your impression fools you.

People generally feel headwind a lot heavier than tailwind. Also keep in mind you're moving.

Not discrediting anyone who ran Boston today, but Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot is not going to run another 2h05m at any other WMM.

I bet Cheruiyot does run a 2:05 elsewhere. What makes you think he can't?

Can't complain with the weather-- not warm, comfortable in a singlet with gloves for the first 2 miles until the chill of waiting at athlete's village was gone. Wind seemed more swirling with some definitly noticeable stretches of headwind where it was nice to tuck in. A lot of people out too hard, including me, although was still passing more than being passed. I had wanted to be out in 1:17, aiming for 2:34; ended up out in 1:15 running 2:35. Hard to slow down those 1st 10 miles.

Boston is probably one of the best of not best races in US. Have fun running your local races by yourself at faster paces. And you can do Boston on the cheap if you do research and plan ahead.

Crowd support was crazy. Blows Chicago out the water. I'll see how NYC is in the fall.

There were two to three times when I felt a strong headwind but that's it. I thought the sun was a bigger issue. I was covered in salt at finish. I'll be back in 2011.

Another wrote:

Crowd support was crazy. Blows Chicago out the water. I'll see how NYC is in the fall.

I am curious about the Chicago comment, having not run Boston yet I thought the Chicago crowd was insane. Hearing that something blows it out of the water with crowd support makes me excited to run it next year.

A very well managed race, though they go a little too heavy on the sponsorships--soup to nuts, all the way through the new promotional protein sports drink offered at the finish, it was heavy sales pitch for addidas, nissan, and gatorade. Felt a little bludgeoned by all the in-your-face marketing.