April 2014 ~ Running in Laredo, Texas

Friday, April 25, 2014

Boston Marathon Race Report 2014

Whats going on peeps? Well well well I ran the Boston Marathon on 4/21/14 and this is how it unfolded. For this marathon I put around 1800 miles worth of running with countless doubles to get me into great shape. I left Laredo, Texas on Thursday to San Antonio, Texas. On Saturday I flew out at 6:00 am to Boston. I took two complete days off Saturday and Sunday. I got to Boston at 4:40 and went straight to the apartment were I was staying in Orient Heights via the blue line in Boston. I booked my stay with airbnb my first ever booking through them. It was kind of awkward staying with people I didn't know at all but in the end it was all good, free wifi, restroom and near the T for all my transportation needs. I got to meet 3 wonderful ladies in the process, a stewardess from Jet Blue, her roommate and Bernadette another marathoner from San Diego California. I quickly checked in and departed towards the expo, I got there at 6:50 pm got my things and started planning out how I was going to the start and what not. Got back to the apartment and went to dinner with Bernadette at El Paisa ate some pasta there. Went to sleep around 11:30 p.m. and slept in till 8:30 am at 9:00 Sunday morning I decided to go to the expo to get some shirts for my girls. I purchased 4 shirts for my girls and darted out of there it was too crowded and expensive! I ate some brick pizza at the prudential center and continued shopping for shirts bought a xs shirt for my 2 year old and walked out of the center. As I was going back to the apartment some guy was selling shirts at the backbay sub station I asked him how much they were? He said 10 pesos! I asked him hey where are you from he said Venezuela! I said hey those are the same shirts that they are selling at the expo! Right? He said claro hermano lo que pasa es que ellos tienen que pagar impuestos por estar vendiendo ahi? All of his shirts were sold for 10-12 bucks compared to 22-24 at the expo! HUGE SMH!

Boston was real electric everyone was decked out in there jackets or Boston Strong shirts! Went back to the apartment and ate some Chinese and called it a night. Fast forward time from 6 pm to 4 am everything went so fast to top it off I couldn't sleep at all. Alarm went off at 4:30 am packed my bags and left the apartment from 5 am till about 6 am Tuesday morning everything was a blur! Everything went by so fast in a blink of an eye.

Timeline:

5:00 am Depart to the T

5:15 am Blueline to Orange Line and walked 2 blocks to the bus loading area

6:05 am loaded the front buses and departed to Hopkington

7:45 am get to Hopkington

8:00-9:05 am Lay down and rest

9:30-10:00 am get to the corrals

9:50 am high fived the elites

10:00 am Marathon BABY!

1:00-2:00 PM walk to the sub and head out to apt … some lady from Harvard paid my entrance!

2:00-3:00 pm airport check in

3:30-4:15 pm Got on plane

4:00-5:45 pm fly to Newark

6:10-6:30 pm spoke to reporters from back home

7:00-10:00 pm flew from Newark to San Antonio

10:30 pm Got picked up by my brother in law in San Antonio

11:00 -2:30 am drove back home to Laredo, Texas

2:30 am- Showered and Rested

6:00 am Woke up

7:00 am Back at work testing students! Phewwwwwwwww

Before the race at the Village

This is the blister that caused me to slow down. This hot spot happened at mile 3

That's what I had to deal with from mile 3-26.2

Here are my splits ..

1	5:42.6	1.00	5:43
2	5:38.7	1.00	5:39
3	5:35.8	1.00	5:36
4	5:35.2	1.00	5:35
5	Stopped tied my shoes tight to prevent slipping 5:46.1	1.00	5:46
6	5:34.5	1.00	5:35
7	5:38.2	1.00	5:38
8	5:42.2	1.00	5:42
9	5:44.0	1.00	5:44
10	5:53.1	1.00	5:53
11	5:58.6	1.00	5:59
12	Stopped to untie the shoes cause they were too tight, 6:55.1	1.00	6:55
13	Stopped to take off socks and compression socks 8:16.3	1.00	8:16
14	Tried to go back at it! 5:51.1	1.00	5:51
15	Had troubled stepping 6:06.3	1.00	6:06
16	Frustrated with the nagging pain 5:58.9	1.00	5:59
17	From 17-21 it was just a pain meltdown 6:30.5	1.00	6:31
18	6:38.7	1.00	6:39
19	6:11.2	1.00	6:11
20	6:37.0	1.00	6:37
21	Heartbreak Hill 7:37.2	1.00	7:37
22	6:29.5	1.00	6:29
23	6:41.8	1.00	6:42
24	7:29.0	1.00	7:29
25	6:31.8	1.00	6:32
26	7:16.4	1.00	7:16
27	6:16.6	0.43	14:30