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...passed the Official YMCA Water Station at the five-mile mark. The team leader distributed advice and information, "Don't be disappointed if the elite runners don't take a cup from you. They have their own advance people with special solutions. You'll have enough business when the pack comes along, believe me. Those tables look full now buy you'll be surprised how fast those cups...
...first two hours I walked alone, and then, at 12:11, the race caught up to me. At the seven mile mark in Framingham the wheelchair leader passed me going about thirteen miles per hour. The rest of the day I fell further and further behind while I covered ground. At Fisk Pond in Natick, the elite runners tracked by. Fisk Pond is at the 15K point, where the elite runners have their private water bottles, each marked up in some distinctive manner. The squeeze bottles are full of brown, blue, red, green fluids and masked in different colors...
...time I reached the Wellesley mile, I had a good idea of when I would finish. I was doing a little over three miles an hour, and I wasn't getting as much thinking done as I had hoped. I tried to make mental notes of the spectators, or of the houses and the landscape, but it wasn't much use. I had passed the point where a walk is a useful thinking tool and just wanted to get back to Boston and take a shower. a waited for the mile markers. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. I stopped at a Star...
...mile twenty I met Jake Brederson. Fifty-four years old, this was his twentieth marathon. He ran it once and finished sixty-ninth with a tome of 3:38. That was thirty years ago when there were only two-hundred participants. The rest of his twenty he has walked. One time, his ride did not show up at the finish line, and he did not have any money to get home, so he started walking again...
After four hours, race officials took down the mile markers so we weren't sure where we were. With some undefined distance left, some officials in marathon jackets told us we had two miles...