Boston Marathon - Mark Stickley
my goals for the race. Sure, I'd like to run fast. But I knew I wasn't in shape to set a PR (personal record) or even come close. Coming off the winter, my training hadn't been up to par so I didn't expect to be real competitive. I had no delusions of grandeur.
If all went well, I'd be thrilled with a sub-two-hour-and-25-minute performance and/or a top-100 finish. Outside of that, well, just get me to the finish line so I can look back one day and say "Yeah, I ran the 100th Boston Marathon. And I fin-ished it, too."
OK, so it's a grandfatherly-type of thing to say but I've been feeling rather grandfatherly lately.
As the clock ticked down ever so slowly to starting time, I could feel the crowd squeezing in. What happens if I fall down and get trampled by 40,000 people? Would anybody notice? It wasn't a pleasant thought.
Come back next week for the conclusion of this Beantown account and see what happened to Mark!
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