According to the race results, I was 5496/26632 OA, and 611/2447 AG.  That is top 20% and 25%, respectively, against the best marathoners in the world.  Holy crap.

!!!! That's awesome!!!

 

There'll be a 3 for 1 offer in a month

Well my problem is more that I'm not even sure if there is one good one; there certainly aren't three. I'd rather they reduced the price of individual pics. But I doubt they do that.

According to the race results, I was 5496/26632 OA, and 611/2447 AG.  That is top 20% and 25%, respectively, against the best marathoners in the world.  Holy crap.

Outstanding work.

For me: 8141/26632 OA (30.6%), 587/1853 AG (31.7%). I feel pretty good about being in the top third of that field. And maybe I already posted this, but coming in ranked 13799 (based on my bib #) and finishing 8141 makes me realize my day was not nearly as awful as a lot of people's. So I feel pretty proud of that too.

Interesting stats:

• 30,234 entered, 27,355 started. Almost 3000 people get in and don't show up! I don't know if that's the same kind of figure every year, but that seems like a lot. Obviously some people get injured or other things come up, but there's 3000 people who missed the cutoff who would have loved that chance.
• 26,632 finished, or 97.4% of the starters. Again, not sure how this compares to past years, but wouldn't surprise me if there was a higher than usual number of DNFs this year. Still a pretty good number I think, not sure how it compares to other marathons. I wonder if that rate is different for time-qualifiers vs. charity runners?

 

They'll have a BOGO or buy one get two deal eventually, if you are not in a hurry to get photos.  In hindsight, the $60 pre-race offer would have been a good deal, but I didn't expect them to get FIFTY TWO photos of me.

Wow, I "only" have 26. You are twice as important as me.

 

Don’t forget he also appears on videos with the marine crawler!

I suppose that could be half the photos.

They also make a personal ~1 minute video for everyone, based mainly on video taken on the course along the way. I can barely see myself in any of the footage, but OK. It did show me crossing the finish, so that was pretty cool. My form looked pretty awful at that point, lol.

I never did get an email about reduced prices on the photos. I might have wanted the Boyleston St. one but I wasn't willing to spend $30 for it.  The video was pretty useless. Lots of race photos, very few that included me.

 

Wow, there's a blast from the past!

Former runner; long time lurker; just trying to get back to running again after 2 kids and 2 cardiac ablations. 

I've been tracking y'all's training for a few years now.    Congrats again - you and Phil are ROCK STARS!