Word: marathoning
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Heading west, I passed them a few minutes after ten. I had given myself a two-hour head start because I was walking the Marathon and wanted to finish before nightfall...
...month, I enjoyed telling friends that I was training for the Marathon and that I hoped to finish in under nine hours. I trained by walking back and forth to classes but didn't give much thought to specifics until I saw a map of the route in the Globe on Saturday. I had planned on taking the subway to wherever the race started, but I learned that even the commuter rail doesn't get out there. There is a shuttle bus that leaves from Copley, but I didn't know that then, and I was trying to calculate what...
...Boston Marathon happens to finish in Boston, but except for the last four miles it has little to do with Boston proper. The route is a journey through commuter country. You spend the first half of the race on Rt 135, which has a string of aliases: East Main Street, Union Street, Waverly Street, West Central Street, East Central Street, and Washington Street...
...visitor from abroad running the Marathon sees a case study of American landscape built for the automobile society. You meet sidewalks only occasionally, in the town centers. To get from the garden store to the Big D Wonder Mart to the HeadQuarters hair salon, you need a car. Without the automobile, this strip development would not make sense...
...walk the Marathon, you don't fit into any standard category. You aren't a spectator, but you don't quite count as participant either. At several watering stations, when I reached for a Gatorade, the woman told me, "I'm sorry, the drinks are for runners only," and I would patiently explain that I had walked from Hopkinton. Suspicious, she would relent grudgingly. Take one if you must, but move on, she seemed to say. We don't want anything to do with hiking boots and blue jeans...