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2017 Boston Marathon

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OK, Here's my race report.  The funny names referenced below are online friends from a Boston Marathon forum. It was a fantastic weekend. I had a fun time at Beerworks hanging out with fellow forumites Saturday evening and then went to the Expo on Sunday. Sunday morning I did the usual Aussie Carb Load. There was a suburban office park with no traffic that made for ~1 mile loop. So, a short warmup run over to the park, then a 5:56 mile and a cooldown back to the hotel. I chugged a ton of Gatorade powder and then it was off to the Expo. One challenge with driving in from the 'burbs was that I didn't know that the toll lanes have all gone automated so at some point there is going to be an additional bill from Hertz and I'm a little scared what the extra convenience charges are going to look like. Before heading into the Expo I went to the Runner's World pop up store and scored some free gloves with the name of 8 of the towns on the fingers. Molly Huddle was gi...