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If you're a sports fan, I guess Boston wouldn't be a bad place to be this Patriot's Day weekend. The Red Sox are playing a set of games against Texas (I think 4 games, Friday through Monday), the Bruins played the Canadians at the Garden last night (spectacular game and they won, sending the series to a seventh game in Montreal), the Celtics play tonight at the Garden in their playoff opening series, and perhaps most importantly, there are two marathons going on: the U.S. Olympic time trial for the Beijing games was today and tomorrow is the big one: 25,000 running hit the pavement between Hopkinton and the Boston Public Library for the 108th annual Boston Marathon.
Feeling inspired, I felt like running my own marathon (yeah, right) and went for an 11 mile run/walk through the streets of Cambridge and Boston. Roughly (for those who care), I walked from Inman to Kendall, watched part of the time trial (that race wound through Boston and then was mostly a track up and down Mem Drive on the Cambridge side a few times), walked to Chucktown and through the new park by the locks, then along the North End to Fanuiel Hall, to the Boston Common, up Boylston to see the Marathon stuff, over the Mass Ave Bridge, back along Mem Drive to Whole Foods on River Street, up through Central Square and back to the apartment. I ran about 60-70% and walked the rest (like through the crowds in the city). Overall really nice in the mid-50 degree temps.
I am exhausted now and spent much of the afternoon napping in front of the TV. Slacker. |
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04/20/2008 03:50 PM |
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