It is Sunday afternoon and we await tomorrow’s Boston Marathon. The flight from San Francisco was on time, hopefully a good sign. We sat next to a gal who was also running the marathon for the first time so we had a lot to talk about. As we were flying across the United States we could see the weather change from sunny to stormy, then we went past the storm so the weather was fine enough when we arrived, but we could see what was coming.

We reached the hotel by taxi at about 11:30 pm, only to find out they had overbooked and there was no room for us. That news was after we could see others in the line before us had to go through some gyrations. It turned out okay because they gave us cab fare and a letter with a free night at a near by hotel, the Hotel at MIT, which turned out to be a very nice room.

This morning we slept  in, due to the time zone change and around 11 am, made our way back to the Hyatt at Cambridge, where we had our reservation. They had the room ready and gave us coupons for the breakfast buffet. After eating we decided to walk over to the expo, which was about 1.5 miles.

I should have know better because by now the storm had hit Boston and it was very windy. The umbrellas we had brought did little to keep us dry, except out heads maybe. It was a long 1.5 miles over and I started to think about running a full marathon into such a headwind because we were walking in the same direction I will be running tomorrow.

The expo was packed with people, so many it was hard to move from booth to booth. I guess all 22,000 runners and their families thought this would be a better place to spend the afternoon than outside in the wind and cold. There would be plenty of that for tomorrow.

Outside of our window, across the way, I can see a big American Flag. It is fully extended , waving in the strong wind.

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