Is this FOMO?
Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwThere used to be t-shirts that said "Right on Hereford, left on Boylston." I like it but never bought one, thinking it was only appropriate to wear it if one had done so while running the Boston Marathon. Yesterday I was near the corner of Comm Ave and Hereford, watching runners make the turn, and I had waves of sadness wash over me, thinking I'll never be able to do that. I went home fairly soon after I arrived.*
I have done two marathons. For the second one (about which I didn't post, apparently) I was in a 6 hour walk/run group. It was fun, but not very impressive, relative to most marathons. I went back and looked at the other one in 2013 (4:17, slower than it should have been) and noted that the subject line was "One and Done." So I shouldn't be sad now about no Boston in my future.
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*but I was cheerful on the way to Comm Ave seeing finishers wearing their mylar blankets while strolling/lounging/posing with flowers in the Public Garden and on the way home was happy to see people on the T with their bags full of post-race snacks. We have had several visiting bellringers who were in town for the marathon, and they all finished at under four hours.
I have done two marathons. For the second one (about which I didn't post, apparently) I was in a 6 hour walk/run group. It was fun, but not very impressive, relative to most marathons. I went back and looked at the other one in 2013 (4:17, slower than it should have been) and noted that the subject line was "One and Done." So I shouldn't be sad now about no Boston in my future.
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/377988.html
*but I was cheerful on the way to Comm Ave seeing finishers wearing their mylar blankets while strolling/lounging/posing with flowers in the Public Garden and on the way home was happy to see people on the T with their bags full of post-race snacks. We have had several visiting bellringers who were in town for the marathon, and they all finished at under four hours.
