The 114th Boston Marathon is tomorrow. It's Patriots' Day, which commemorates the anniversaries of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which kicked off the Revolutionary War. Patriots' Day is a Massachusetts holiday that now coincides with the marathon and a Red Sox home game. Not all businesses close, but many of those who don't get the day off end up working from home if they can. The marathon is almost a straight line, 26.2 miles outside the city into downtown Boston. If you normally cross the marathon route to get to work, you're pretty much out of luck on Marathon Monday.
Greg is running for the second year in a row, so I'm taking the day off to watch. Greg's parents are coming up from Connecticut, and his brother, sister-in-law, and aunt are also going to be there. You can only run the Boston Marathon (officially) under one of three circumstances: You can run for charity, you can be given one of the two spots each local running club is given, or you can qualify. For the men's 18-34 age group, you have to run a marathon in 3 hours 10 minutes. Greg qualified last January at the Disney Marathon in Orlando, which qualified him for two consecutive years.
It should be a very exciting day!
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