On an e-mail exchange just two days ago, Louise told me that she developed a sciatic problem in the past month and, even though she is in Boston, she will not be running it.
So Laura is the only one of Boreal that conquered that cold monsoon (and as pointed out above, so did Susan). Congratulations to both. Must have felt colder that the Everest Marathon to Laura.
She seems to attract major rain events wherever she goes. Remember hurricane Sandy in New York?
Taped the race and watched it twice. Brutal conditions but exciting race for both men and women, with some lead changes in the Newton Hills and afterwards.
The commentators made fun of the guy that took a sizeable lead in the first few kilometers, (a Japanese runner), going out at under the 3 minute pace, saying that he did it just to be seen on television and then adding that, at about 5 or 10 K, "somebody will hand him a piano to carry".
Well, here is a picture of him at the finish line,
(he was not carrying a piano)
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/boston ... n-kawauchiThose commentators will now have to eat words for supper.
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it" - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Nullius in verba" - motto of the London's Royal Society of scientists
by judi » Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:18 pm 
