It's marathon season in Boston.....

Welcome to the Expo....

I have to admit the Boston marathon expo was pretty bleh yesterday. It was huge but full of merchandise that you could get anywhere else and probably at better prices. Picking up my bib was pretty exciting, although I have to admit it wasn't as satisfying as if I had qualified this year but there is a different sense of accomplishment running with Dana-Farber.

After wasting about an hour wandering around the expo, I headed over to DFMC check-in at the Marriott, where I got to see team coordinator Jan and expert Marathon adviser and former Boston Marathon winner, Jack Fultz. I also ran into a teammate from DFMC (who also works at DFCI) who I hadn't seen from the first-timer meeting in December and she seemed so nervous. I tried to get her to relax and reassure her that she was ready for Monday but she was visibly unsure of herself. I hope she has recovered some of confidence since then. 

The Stanley Cup playoffs have certainly been a great distraction from the upcoming race and Montreal's big overtime win helped the evening go quickly.

This morning was the BAA 5k, which I went to cheer a bunch of people I knew, and I have to admit I was in awe of how much traffic there was on the course from just 10,000 runners. Kind of daunting for Monday morning, when I will effectively be passing some 10-15000 runners.....

This morning also marked my final run before Monday, what I intended to be a short 2 mile/3.2 km run, which turned into the regular 4 mile/6.4km run at TMRICE saturday. I felt pretty good except for the phantom knee pain, so I'm ready for Monday.

My bib number is 26239, which is was originally unhappy with since it didn't seem like a cool number to me (ya this is something I think about) but I guess the 2 "2s" and the 3/6/9 makes some kind of mathematical coolness in there.....

Since then I have been in vegetation mode except for ironing on my name and some other names onto my DFMC singlet for Monday. That's pretty much the majority of the plan for the next 36 hours :-)

The weather has decided it isn't going to totally cooperate on Monday with rain highly likely. Honestly, I'd prefer snow since rain is my absolute least favourite condition to run in but I guess I'll have to make do with whatever is there.

One more update tomorrow probably. Sorry if it is boring :-) That's pretty much where I'm at right now!