I felt pretty bummed out for a while. My time was about 15 minutes slower than my qualifying time, but for my first Boston, I just was enjoying it. After about the first 10k despite going out cautious I knew it wouldn't be a horrible day, but not great and I thought why struggle through it to shave a few minutes I just wanted to take it in and I am glad I did. I must admit I was a tad intimidated though, and part of the race wasn't even focused on time just had these thoughts that I just don't want a DNF, just finish and get the medal. Anxiety I guess. I wasn't too physically beat up at the end, able to do the Freedom Trail the next day no problem, except for a few staircases going down. I was more emotionally bummed out. Qualifying 13 months before and looking forward to it and training for it for so long, it came and went really quickly, but what I thought would be a one and done has turned into me wanting to do it again one day. I trained in LA and we had a pretty cold-wet winter for LA standards, but I didn't think the weather was horrible this year at Boston, although it did get warm the last 4-5 miles. But loading those buses in the rain with everyone wearing ponchos and shoes covers, it definitely could've been worse. They need to do something ab Athletes' Village though and the mud. I had an extra pair of shoes and socks but felt bad for people whose racing shoes were ankle deep in that sh$#. Any way I know Ill get crap for this but curious, let's say my bib was "rounding" 8500 and I got 7600 place, is it decent to place 900 below bib?
With all things in life, time will heal all "wounds", start running again set new goals and if I never do it again Im glad I got to experience it once.