Boston Marathon

One of the perks of living in Hopkinton is the fact you get to be one of the few people to watch the start of the Boston Marathon. They pretty much block all the roads leading into town about 5:30am ... which explains why I was not at work today ... there was no way for me to get to work.

Kade really enjoyed the whole thing. He was really into seeing the start and understanding everything. His school (Center School) is actually about 50 yards from the start line...so for the week leading up to the big race ... they teach the kids about Patriots' day (the race is always on Patriots day) and the Boston Marathon. They even have runners from Kenya and other places come int an talk about their home countries and why they race.

To be honest, it was really quite amazing to see. There were about 25,000 runners in the race this year and almost all of Hopkinton was on the Green. I think we ran into just about everyone we know in town over at the Fried Dough stand....yeah...that's right...we all celebrated the runners by wolfing down some Fried Dough at 10:30 in the morning! The worst part of it all...we showed up right at 10:00am when the elite men's field was starting...so we got to see the winner Kenyan (Robert Cheruiyot) head off down the hill towards Boston. By the time we were finished watching the next heat head out, eat our fried dough, play on the playground, walk back to the car, drive home and turn on the TV...Robert was just crossing the finish line in Boston (2hrs 5 mins later)! That was really amazing! Anyway, here are some pics...