2:52!
2:52!
you know what i think is really pathetic? when so many runners head to "flat/fast" courses and avoid any course with the slightest of hills. then those same losers have to diminish any type of achievement made by people who take the chance and risk on challenging courses.
i have run boston 6 times and have had a range of weather from 85 degree heat to 50 and cloudy. i ran again this year and couldn't have been more happy about the tailwind forcast. i'm not going to lie, i could feel it and it was awesome. i ran a boston pr (2:27)and was 50 seconds off my regular pr.
am i going to place an asterix next to that performance? f*ck no!!! i still ran 26 miles on a very strategically challenging course. a tailwind is great but it doesn't run the marathon for you. at least i had the balls to challenge myself on a non-pancake flat course to begin with. if i lucked out with the weather, it's because i deserved it for all the marathons i've run in terrible conditions.
Yes, 2:58 in 2009 not at Boston and then a 2:49 this year at Boston. I ran a 1:18 half in November and then went 1:21/1:28 at Boston. My hamstring cramped at mile 18 and I basically had to jog it in once it loosened up enough to run.
My previous PR was 3:06:xx and I ran a 3:00:xx. I am in better shape than I ever had been and had been expecting a PR but not a 3:00 hour run in Boston.
That being said, I did not notice the tailwind much for the first 20 miles or so due to the thick crowd. As others said, the throngs of people behind you were essentially anti-drafting.
As things thinned out after Heartbreak hill and I could run in the (slightly) open I began to feel it a bit and think it helped me on my way into the city.
Last year I felt crummy and ran an 8 second PR at Boston. This year my training was subpar (lack of volume and peaking workouts) and I ran a 16 second PR in Boston. The tailwind was probably a smaller factor for folks like me who were sheltered by other runners in the pack (3:10) versus the elites.
I live in pancake flat Florida, and I think the so called hills on the course are a joke. If you're dying on the Newton hills, you're doing it wrong. SO many people flying by like mad over the first 10k or so were all moving backwards even by mile 14.
Agree with OP about it feeling warm without any cloud cover. At one point a spectator made the observation that we looked awfully sweaty and hot.
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