Boston Marathon Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, April 21st, is the 112th Boston Marathon, run on Patriots’ Day. This race is the oldest annual city marathon in the world and is one of the most prestigious races in the world.

How this marathon differs from most marathons is that in order to run, you must qualify for it:

• You had to have run a prior marathon in under 3 hours 40 minutes (females, for the under 34 years old group) or 3 hours 10 minutes (males, under 34 years old group).
• The times increase by 5-15 minutes per age group; however, for the 80 year olds (and above) they need to have completed a marathon in under 5 hours (men) or 5 1/2 hours (women)–how tough!!

I think that this will be an amazing race and would be awesome to watch! Although the course appears to mostly be downhill, there are some major hills later in the race (see course map for details). At about 16-17 miles, there is a pretty steep hill, and it ends with a series of hills–not fun when the runners have already run 20 miles. About 20,000 runners have signed up to run the race.

So if you’re in Boston tomorrow, take some time today to cheer on some runners (even if just in spirit). If you’re not in Boston, or just can’t make it to the course area, go for a walk or run yourself. Go marathoners!!!

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