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CNSMHB are running the marathon today, though you already know this if you’ve seen the explosion of the marathon tag in the past few weeks. To my knowledge this is the first full marathon for Team HB to have run together - SMHB ran Boston last year and CNHB ran New York with me three (!?) years ago. Today, Christine is trackable here (if that doesn’t work just go to Athlete Tracking and enter her bib, 26096). I’ll update this post periodically today.

UPDATE 1: 10K down for CNHB! 9:42 splits, this is under the low end of her split range (10:00-12:00). She’s somewhere in Framingham now, I think there are fans to see her at mile 6 but I haven’t heard from them yet.

UPDATE 2: 15K down, which should put CNHB passing over the gorgeous Lake Cochicuate. SP just called - she and the old people were indeed at mile 6 but managed to miss everyone. I’m planning to leave Longwood here in a bit to walk up to mile 25 - our most aggressive estimates put SMHB there in 90 minutes.

UPDATE 3: CNHB just passed 25K, her split finally fell below 10:00. That’s expected, hopefully no IT band issues. I’m heading out to see what there is to see, updates mas tarde.

UPDATE 4: Finished! Saw them both! Accidentally stepped on little one’s foot when she came to say hi, SORRY!!

UPDATE 5: Photos! What probably my best Bevo ever and one each from Team HB.

CNHB runs the 2007 BAA half marathon.

I’m ashamed that I’ve lived in my place for almost a year without realizing the quality of life improvement that can be derived from extending my westward loop a bit to circle the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. This is a gorgeous turn-around that lets you forget about the rats and drunks and type a-holes turning right on red into a full crosswalk. Currently I’m favoring this choice over going through BU and looping the Charles (though easier to set random lengths there). Other practical advantages to Chestnut Hill include the homestretch being mostly downhill, and avoiding the slumerlandic regions of lower Allston.

If you’re running the BAA Half Marathon and are interested in joining my group on facebook, that’d be cool. I don’t know that there’s any particular point to joining per se, it’s just something to do, don’t get all existential.

It’s really hot, but eventually we’re going to have to expand beyond the little loops. Things have been pretty exhausting around here, and some people get tired before the longer river loop is done. Friggin dog brake.

Here are the full results for last week’s Jim Kane Sugar Bowl 5 miler (I’ve had better races). If I understand this correctly I barely avoided finishing in the bottom quartile of my age & sex group. Some training and lifestyle changes are going to have to be made around here before the BAA half.

My brother-in-law Steven is running/white water rafting the Boston Marathon today. His wife is photoblogging the event here. Starting at about 10:30 today you can track him yourself at BAA.org (his bib number is 21725).

UPDATE: As of 10K, he’s on pace to run 3:37:53. That seems fast, a sub 8:20 split. We’ll see if he can sustain.

FINAL UPDATE:
5k 0:26:07
10k 0:51:31
15k 1:17:29
20k 1:43:01
Half 1:48:29
25k 2:08:41
30k 2:35:01
35k 3:02:26
40k 3:29:33
Final 3:40:28
Split 0:08:25