My friend Scott and I ran an official 3:34:51 yesterday at Last Chance for Boston Marathon Last Chance is so named because this is the last weekend you can qualify for this year's Boston Marathon. (I qualified back in September though so this was just a tune-up run.) The course is a one-mile loop which would seem boring except that it has the feel of a big race because everybody is compressed on the course so there's a lot of people around you all the time.

We ran with a pretty even pace throughout except for a 15:25(!!) last mile (mile lap times below). You see we screwed up at the end. They weren't calling out lap counts (at least not for us) and we lost track. We stopped after the 25th lap thinking we were finished, got the medal, turned in the timing chip, started to walk to the car and everything. But then we got to thinking that our "time" seemed a bit too good for our pace. "Shoot, we better check..." Sure enough we were short a lap. So we had to go collect our chips out of the bucket, run the last lap (clutching medal in hand), and finish. We would have had a 3:27 or so had we not stopped for all this time.

I am a bit perturbed at the organization for not calling out everyone's laps (like they did last year) and several other people I talked to complained about this too. Oh well. 3:27...3:34...it really doesn't matter I guess. All in all we had a nice tune-up marathon for Boston.

50 334 Robert Lawson 40 M Bexley OH 3:34:51
1: 10:22 10:22
2: 7:49 18:11
3: 7:52 26:02
4: 7:43 33:45
5: 7:51 41:35
6: 7:51 49:25
7: 7:44 57:09
8: 7:55 1:05:03
9: 7:50 1:12:53
10: 7:59 1:20:51
11: 7:51 1:28:42
12: 7:51 1:36:32
13: 7:50 1:44:21
14: 8:34 1:52:55
15: 7:53 2:00:47
16: 7:56 2:08:43
17: 7:48 2:16:31
18: 7:59 2:24:29
19: 8:00 2:32:28
20: 8:01 2:40:29
21: 7:40 2:48:08
22: 7:33 2:55:41
23: 7:55 3:03:35
24: 7:50 3:11:25
25: 8:02 3:19:26
26: 15:25 3:34:51