Dear fellow 1500 milers! Here is a small note from a page 3/4 runner. I am trailing the bunny but could not care less because I have been to BOSTON!!!!!!!!! Here is my little report and hopefully there are others in this group that have their own reports to post!! Thank you all for getting me there!!!!! All the sweat, pain, early mornings, cold winters, hot humid summers, desperate qualifying attempts, blisters, injuries, weight up, weight down, logs, predictions, calculators, fat, carbs, proteins..... It is all history now. Today I feel total relaxation!!! I have done it. Boston Marathon, runners shrine! It was great. My race was slow but steady and I did not walk anywhere except for a few drinking stations. Was 30 minutes slower than my Q race in Columbus only two months ago. But who cares. This time I could run a marathon without a clock or paceband, only to enjoy and have fun!!!!! The crowds, the runners, the WEATHER was just mindbogling fantastic. I had oranges, bananas, icecubes, frezees, cockies, jelly beans and jelly babies along the course. Every spectator had something to give away, my face is sorer than my legs,, from smiling! I have a blister in my hand from High Fives a quadrillion times! I cannot imagine another race that can top this, and yes, I have done NYM. To you runningaheaders...fighting, struggling, it is all worth it!!!!!! Cheers Arne

Wow! I think the only way I could run Boston is as a charity runner...it's tempting, to say the least. Nice job, Arne!

Awesome Arne! And it's comments like this that make me dream big...Boston is a LONG way away for me. Many more miles, in fact, than any map would suggest. Inspiring stuff, and thanks for sharing!

Congratulations! I love the fact that your face hurts the most (from smiling so much). That really adds to describing how you felt that day, which is awesome!