Now I'm getting excited. This could be my best shot ever to place in the Top100. Really folks, weather like that can bring excitement and opportunities like the tailwind last year. As triathletes, you guys know better how to deal with heat than runners because you run long distances during the summer.

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BAA Allowing runners to defer because of possible conditions:

http://www.boston.com/...unners_to_defer.html

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"You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime."
Mark Allen - Ironman

What are folks here thinking? I'm on the fence about deferring!

If you are not going out to set a personal record , then just run a nice race ar a comfortable pace and enjoy the atmosphere you would otherwise miss if you were looking at your watch all day.
Besides you can always say you were there.

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"You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime."
Mark Allen - Ironman

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There are now even more reasons to run than not to. It's not like you wouldn't have to pay again next year. And if you _just_ about qualified, you wouldn't be worrying about your time anyway, right?

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I was glad I ran the 2010 Queens Half in 86 degrees (30C), though it was about 15 minutes more than my normal time. As a benchmark of ability. I'd be very happy having done it were I doing Boston this year. From what I'm hearing, Boston will be about that.

Consensus seems to be, you're local without the travel overhead, then defer. Got hotels and flights invested? Do it.

Deferring is for pussies. Is being a pussy what made you a boston qualifier? No. So just slow down and do the race. Boston generally isn't a PR course anyway. Enjoy the day and compete in the way it will allow.

This! Always good advice, but especially when running in weather you have haven't trained in. Of course, it does require some experience.

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Yea I already bought the jacket so in poker terms I'm pot committed.

HAHA, x2.

And I took the tags off and threw away the receipt, so I've got to cross that finish line!

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Just bumped into Lance in the lobby of my hotel. Looking fit and hanging with a couple of hotties. Like him or not, the dude is living the dream.

I still have the jacket from 2007 which I dropped out of. I still wear it.

Definitely going for it tomorrow. Going out around 6:30 pace and re-evaluate at 18 miles if I have anything left After heartbreak hill I am bombing the rest. Shooting for sub 2:50.
I was just in phoenix last week running in 93 degree weather.

Why not? You paid for it.

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Yes, please. Do that.

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the elite women just hit the course, the elite mens race starts at 10am

http://universalsports.com/...athon-april-16-2012/

I wouldn't mind being as rich but I'm THANKFUL I'm not famous.

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Who?

women's pace through 5k is 2 minutes slower than last year!

Nice way to create artificial demand for next years race. I've run 4 hot marathons in 80+ degree weather.. not including Iron trots in 80+ Offering a deferment has pretty much eliminated the last shred of credibility that the BAA had with me. The best years of this race, are now in the rear view mirror. I ran the inaugural Georgia ING marathon where temps were 87, in March. No acclimatization was possible and the event ran out of water on the course. I still ran just a few minutes slower than goal.

anyone know the guy in the lead?
what is he up to?

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Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

Tall, dark horse Matthew Kisorio

Holy sh&t Wes Korir just won Boston. What a race. This couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. I see him training and at local races here in Louisville. I can't wait to here about the race.

And nice finish for Jason Hartman in 4th. I remember when he was only the second best guy on his high school track & cross country teams.

Whats amazing is dudes 6"3 165, thats a pro triathletes physique! Would be cool to see what he could do in an Ironman, if he could bike, maybe do a sub 2:30 run.