I qualified for Boston but have no intention of ever doing the race because it’s a slow course. Why do it?

Hi Kara

**Running is Meditation** wrote:

Racing shouldn't require throngs of screaming crowds to spur you on. If you can't be competitive without that, you're weak minded. Run a local marathon and feed your inner soul.

I suspect that this is a troll bait response becuase i really doubt anyone would be of such low intelligence.

seattle prattle wrote:

**Running is Meditation** wrote:

Racing shouldn't require throngs of screaming crowds to spur you on. If you can't be competitive without that, you're weak minded. Run a local marathon and feed your inner soul.

I suspect that this is a troll bait response becuase i really doubt anyone would be of such low intelligence.

The Wellesley ladies motivate me

Uncle Rico wrote:

For the jacket one can wear to all of the local road races.

LOL.... I only intend to run Boston once and this is the year. I kind of want the jacket but..... what is the proper occasion to wear it? I've seen a few people sporting a Boston marathon jacket at local 5ks. None of them were fast.

Simulate Boston before you run it:

Go to the airport, Sit down for several hours. Hand over a bunch of cash.

Sleep in your guest bedroom after eating some strange food. Hand over a bunch of cash.

Wake up super early. Ride the city bus around town until 10AM.

Flip a coil. Heads - over dress. Tails - under dress. To simulate the unpredictable weather.

Run up and down the busiest pedestrian pathway in your city and make sure to weave lots around people.

Get upset you didn't PR. Blame it on how "technical" the course is.

Take another bus ride.

Go out for dinner, hand over a bunch of cash.

Get up super early. Go back to the airport. Sit there for several hours.

Write your blog post/do your Strava update about the race.

If you like the simulator, go and run the race. You have my blessing.

Very accurate assessment. Also have deal with massholes.

jamin wrote:

Boston does indeed suck

That’s funny because you live in the Boston of the west coast.

BOSTON is slow wrote:

I qualified for Boston but have no intention of ever doing the race because it’s a slow course. Why do it?

Expensive Hotels and early school buses and rude

M@ssholes...what

’s the point? Weather sucks there most of the time too and I also don’t wanna get blown up by terrorists who think it’s such an important race tooThank you

Ok, why not?

To me it is the history of the race. I have read more stories of the Boston Marathon than I can count. I have met elite runners who have talked about how much they liked it.

It is the marathon that non runners will ask you about and other runners will wonder if you ever qualified.

But I can understand the cost factor for sure. I caught a break in that my (then) wife was going to be in Boston for work so we had the hotel paid for. Used frequent flyer miles for the airfare. So pretty cheap from that perspective.

Plus, I like Boston!

Grenio wrote:

Because it is unique.

1. The oldest race in America

2. The marathon with the greatest number of on-course spectators that are smoking cigarettes

For both those reasons, it's kind of amazing.

I bet Honolulu Marathon has the most number of runners who smoke a cigarette during the race. Saw several Japanese men do just that one year.

I saw people in Honolulu turn off 2 miles into the race and go to McDonald's for breakfast.

given how climate-change is making deeper pockets of hot vs cold air, which makes stronger wind more often, eventually there is going to be a year that makes 2011 look like child's-play

zoomzoomzoom wrote:

given how climate-change is making deeper pockets of hot vs cold air, which makes stronger wind more often, eventually there is going to be a year that makes 2011 look like child's-play

Tailwind or headwind?