I took this photograph this morning at a commuter rail station in my town. It was headed to Boston. Today is the Boston Marathon and it is predicted to be 85˚ degrees, an unseasonably high temperature for April and a potentially damaging temperature to runners.
26 thousand of them are massing with as I write this in Hopkinton where the race begins despite warnings and requests from Boston Marathon officials for inexperienced runners to “sit this one out”.
I read this morning that even a Kenyan runner trying to qualify for the Olympics with this Boston Marathon said that had not run a marathon in these predicted “hot” conditions.
Something tells me he is going to fare a whole lot better than about 25,999 of them.
