Nice gathering of folks in support of Boston this evening. We ran "5.2 at 5 for Boston" to mimic finishing the marathon for those who got turned away at 21 miles on Monday due to the attack at the finish line. The organizers first announced the run on Tuesday expecting 40-50 people... by Thurs, they had to change the venue and add sherif's dept and city permits and liability insurance and porta potties and course marshals because the facebook event page had grown to 500. By this morning it was over 1,000 - it ended up with just over 1,000 running/walking, and over $12,000 raised to send to the Boston Red Cross. Felt good to do something - we had 4 local Boston finishers at the start line and several Marines and ROTC kids. I kept it between 7:30 and 7:45 pace fairly comfortably on a rather warm humid evening. Blog post by the organizer |