2013 Running Thread

HUGZ FC! How nice of you to check in with us.

Roan and Groovy........thoughts are with you.

Sharon, awesome job with getting back to running_You go!

MMTOMH and Donna-sending healing thoughts and virtual hugz

XOXOXOXO

Piper

A quick note to let everyone know I am fine. I was stopped at mile 20. My family was waiting near the finish for me. Such chaos- watched some fotage- I don't even know what to say.

GroovyGirls and FCC - such a relief that you are okay!!!! I'm so sorry you are in the middle of such a tragedy. /p>

What a relief to hear from gg and fc. Looking forward to good word from Roan. I am just heartbroken at the theft of joy and celebration from everyone who deserved it so much and worked so hard to be there.

Thank you GroovyGirls for the quick note ... been praying for you all, still worried about Roan ... Roan are you and your family okay?? I can't imagine what you all are feeling ... it is such a tragedy ... heartbroken for everyone in Boston, special prayers to the ones who lost loved ones and are injured.

Just checking in on our Boston runners :-(

Glad to hear FC and Groovygirls are ok.   Thoughts and prayers are with all affected.

Hooray!!  Thanks for posting, Pat.  I've been worried about her.  Mile 25.8 and she was stopped.  Not fair - after all that work. 

Pat, thanks for the update. 

Thanks pat01 for that update. That is a relief. Still so much sadness for those who were hurt.

Oh...so glad to know Roan and family are safe and accounted for.  What a sad sad day for everyone.

I'm also very relieved to hear that FirstCall, groovygirls, and Roan are OK--but NatsFan, that is horrible.  These must be your co-worker's cousins?  It's just awful.  I hope their legs can be saved, but of course there will be a long road ahead of them.

Such an emotional wreck over this tragedy in Boston.  I'm finally at the airport today getting ready to head home and seeing all the runners coming through Seattle on their way home...thankful for their safety and angry and heartbroken over the losses.  Praise God Roan, groovygirls and firstcall are okay.  My prayers are with all affected!

I'm still heartsick, like everyone else I guess. The young lady who died was in my son's high school class, they had a few classes together and he's upset, said she was the sweetest girl. My niece runs every year, had finished in a great time and was meeting her parents at Marathon Sports where she used to work. That's where the 1st bomb went off and Melissa is so traumatized, she saw a couple of her friends get their legs blown off. My other son was supposed to meet her at Marathon Sports but was late - he was sitting in a bar a few blocks down. For once, I'm sure glad he was sitting in a bar. And all I can think of is that little boy who was on this earth for 8 tiny years.

It's sad, it's sickening, there is no sense to be made of it. God help us.

Wearing my yellow #WDWHalf shirt today.

Still so very sad. Whether just on TV or hearing of LuvLuLu's personal connection, it feels like it affects all of us because we run to be free, and get away from threats not toward them.

I was glad to see the interrupted runners receiving medals as they picked up checked bags yesterday on the evening news. I don't know why, but I needed to see that.

Hello Everyone!!!

I am so sorry I am just now checking in with you.  Thank you Pat for sharing my blog post.  I thought about Groovy Girls and First Call, and I am so happy that both of them are ok too!  Yes, I was at mile 25.8 when we were stopped.  Thankfully, for the hour or more that we were all just standing there we were not aware of the exent of the damage the bombs inflicted.  We just knew that something happened.  When you are within 1/2 mile of finishing a marathon, your brain is sluggish...I was bewildered, and like I said it was a blessing that we did not know to panic.  I made it back to my hotel about 2 hours after we were stopped.  I did not have my cell phone (no cell phone, no ID, no money, no hotel room key...but I did have my lipstick!), so I borrowed 3 or 4 strangers' cell phones to text my husband that I was stopped and ok.  He got those texts about 2 hours later!  The cell phone service was sporadic and mostly non-existent.

The swat team camped out in our hotel lobby, yellow crime scene tape was everywhere, constant emergency vehicles and police, etc. whizzed by until late that night, and we were on lockdown in our hotel rooms.  Later they let us out to eat at the hotel restaurant.  We spent the rest of the day/night watching the horrific coverage on TV.  After walking back to my hotel, I was met in the lobby by my friend who was a physician working the finish line medical tent.  Once he described what he took care of, I panicked.  That's when I knew how horrible it really was. He was visibly shaken.  I was never so glad to see my husband in our hotel room.  He had finished with a 3:53 time and my friend finished in 3:38.  So they were both in the runners' refreshments area--waiting for me.  They heard and felt both explosions, but were a block away so they saw no one that was hurt.  They described a surreal scene of chaos. They were cleared out of their area pretty quickly.  My children were all at home with family and friends--far, far away from Boston.

On a happy note:  the morning before the marathon I ran a couple of "warm up" miles with Bart Yasso!  And about 25 other people.  Then we all had coffee together.  I wore my pink "SURVIVOR" knee socks!

My time at the stop was 4:23.  I was at mile 25.8, so I feel pretty sure I would have reached my goal of 4:29. My previous marathon PR was 4:39.  That was the hardest marathon I have ever run, and now the memories of that day are hard to deal with.