My 2025 Boston Marathon Race RECAP!!




💙💛 BOSTON MARATHON 2025 💙💛

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I love a race recap. If you're into that thing, here you go. In fact, I live for Emma Bates 25 part recaps! While my races don't revel anything close to Emma's, here is my go at it :) If you're not into that thing, no worries! 

In 2024, I took to the streets of Boston in my first Boston Marathon. It wasn’t my day for what is likely a variety of reasons, but regardless it resulted in a lot of panic, crying, embarrassment, and with a trip to the medical tent. I definitely didn’t do my grandfather, a Boston Marathon  finisher, proud 

but regardless I finished it. I certainly wasn’t happy with my lack of ability to stay strong in the toughest moments. So I went on to work tirelessly on my mental strength. Racing the 5k, 10k, half and full marathon in 2024 setting PRs in all distances. 

2025 Boston…I vowed to make this year different.  I vowed to run with joy, gratitude, and a smile, and I did just that. When I realized maybe my fitness wasn’t where I thought it was, I had to adjust, and this year I did just that. I settled in quickly to paces that were slower than I expected and were unfortunately comfortably hard so early on in the race. I stayed there… I ran by effort and for anyone that says that Boston is a “downhill course”— yes in the numbers it is, but there are plenty of rollers that make you question that first half. I stayed with with my mantras. “Stay in this mile” “don’t get ahead of yourself”. Got to halfway, checking in with my body, and knew this felt harder than it should at this point. Right foot left foot repeat…get to The Wellesley scream tunnel! I did, and it was ELECTRIC!⚡️ I high-fived every girl I could and smiled my way through. I really wanted to appreciate everything this course is known for. I stayed patient and focused that first half hoping to hold onto anything I could so my legs would give me something in the last 10K. 

I read all the signs, appreciated all the fans, the runners around me, the exceptional volunteers from the buses to the starting village, all the way from Hopkinton to Boston where the finish line volunteers helped hold me up when I could barely walk! 

But back to the race… by mile 16, on runners right, were my girls and my friends, actively shouting, cheering holding their signs. They were just the push that I needed to crush that first Hill in Newton. As I headed into the toughest part of the course I could start feeling the lack of ability to fully recover on the downhill after each uphill. The legs were just not turning over as well. The overall paces slowed and it became a physical and a mental struggle not to stop and to keep going. 1 mile at a time… smile…run with joy…appreciate it all…Take it all in…work with the pain.

And I held on for 10 more miles. And at mile 26 on runners right again is my crew…the ones I didn’t realize I needed, until I needed them. I clearly remember hearing my daughter scream “push!” “go!” and I ran past them smiling, blowing kisses to them…just up ahead I took the famous right on Hereford and left on Boylston, smiling, running as fast as my legs would turn over. 

The 600 m down the most iconic finish line there is. Truly appreciating the moment, my family, my friends, and my body for the countless hours and miles it took to get there. 

But this year most importantly, my mind for staying in it for staying calm, for staying strong, for helping me rewrite my Boston Marathon story, for helping me make my grandfather proud.

At the end of the day, the time on the clock doesn’t matter. Sure I’ll take the 28 minute course PR but the win was the growth I’ve made from last year‘s Boston. That my kids saw me fail forward and how hard I’ve worked to overcome what I thought I lost and to go out and achieve it again. They see the countless hours I put in. Having them say continuously they are so proud of me truly makes every step worth it! ❤️

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