Boston diary - day 1

[ilanarama]

In the morning, bowdlerized and idlerat and I went to the marathon expo so I could pick up my number and chip and maybe get some free stuff. And in fact bringing them was the smartest thing I did all day, because they had an incredible talent for ferretting out all the places handing out the coolest and most useful stuff. Now there are granola bars and sports chews piled on the desk in my hotel room, and my ankle has bright pink tape over the owie tendon, applied as a demo by the Kinesio Tape people.

They left to visit family while I wandered around and mostly missed text messages and phone calls from the various people I was trying to meet. I headed back to the room and ate my leftover dinner for lunch, then as I rested and iced my ankle, my roomie for the weekend, Judy, showed up. Judy is a wonderful woman I met through the RWOL "BQ women's thread", whose daughter Katie passed away in October after a long battle with leukemia. She was going to run Boston in Katie's memory, but she injured herself just a few weeks ago and is going to cheer us on instead. We had never met in person, but as you know that never stops me. :-)

I napped while Judy went to the expo, and then in the evening it was time for a big party at Boston Beerworks, put together by the people of the RWOL Boston forum. Lots of fun, met a lot of people, although it was probably a mistake to have three glasses of porter for dinner. (My food order never came, and I just kind of filled up on beer. Oops.) Also, I really was only going to have two glasses, but then the Celtics game finished, and we were told we couldn't leave because the T would be impossible to get on, so...I had another beer. And stayed up until nearly 1 am, which I don't do any more. (And don't tell me it was "really" only 11 pm, because I think I'm already on Boston time, and anyway, I'm not used to staying up to 11, either!)

Now I am awake far far too early, trying to make up for the dehydration I inflicted on my body. Skinny people in running clothes are walking purposefully through the lobby. I think I'll have another cup of coffee.

Comments

[sara]

Hee -- I did the Alpine Century fifty last year after three glasses of Reisling (the hangover burned off after the first twenty miles or so...and I decided I had to come up with better ways to cope with nerves in the future....) But you don't have to run until tomorrow, the internet tells me, so you'll probably be fine. *G*

[ames]

Aw, Boston Beerworks! I miss Boston.

[yvi]

And you did it! Congratulations!

[(Anonymous)]

Woo-hoo! All over now but the drinking. Oh wait, you already did *that* :-)

Your time looks pretty darn respectable to me. Congratulations!

Eric W.