Monday, April 20, 2009

Dateline: Hopkinton-to-Boston 4/20/09

Pre-race, 8:17 a.m.

Inspiration in permanent marker.

Mile sub-0, 10:25 a.m.

(Should I mention--or will you gather--that 95% of the fans on the course called out "Go Arin!" at my approach?)

Mile 26.1, 2:48 p.m.

The raucous energy of A,B,C,B,E and L 500 yards from the finish (and to be fair, from hundreds of thousands of others) helped provoke a running 4:13.48 finish.

Stories to follow.

6 comments:

Joy said...

Woo-hoo Karin!
I was cheering at televisions in my patients' rooms today.
Nice job!
Joy

cousin j said...

Kar,
You are utterly amazing!

Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was totally thinking of you this morning as I was cooped up in meetings!

Yeah, heartbreak hill, take THAT!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Karin! I have been following you the last month or so and I am inspired by you! Great job on completing the marathon...

Mrs. Hansen said...

Karin!

Mark and I followed you via cell phone alerts. You are truly impressive and an inspiration!

xoxo

Runner Girl said...

Congrats Karin!! I was following you online at work. Looks like you stayed on pace the whole time. Hopefully you can walk w/o too much pain today!

Karin said...

Thanks, friends! Update to follow later today.