Boston Marathon Race day... aka, Patriots Day!

It's Patriots day!!  We dropped Alan off at the Hopkinton State park at 7:30 this morning.  It was already in the 60s when we dropped him off.  Then the kids and I went over to the town of Wellesley to watch the race. 

Since it was sunny the kids hid under our blanket to shield them from the sun - so they could continue playing their games until the runners came past.

The elite runners came through 1 hr and 5 mins.  By the time the rest of the runners came in it was at least 80 degrees and lots of people were walking. We saw Alan and he was really sweaty, but still running at that time.

 

After seeing him we drove over to a parking garage for the T and rode into Boston to see Alan at the finish line.  We actually did see him at mile 26 and he was looking good.  We met him at the family meeting area.  He finished in 3:35.  That was 20 minutes slower than what he trained for, but it was really great considering the heat.

After the race we went over to the Boston Museum of Science.  Alan was a bit sore!!  After that we went over to the Sweetwater Cafe to meet up with the other runners.  Unfortunately we got lost and ended up at the other end of town.  We decided just to go back and look for it again, and this time we found it.

We had a great dinner of burgers next door and then Alan got to hang out with his new runner friends.