After a day off yesterday, today started a new week of running.
Today was also the Boston Marathon race and I followed the progress with keen interest. There were 33 friends from my running website that I was following the progress of. They ALL did a tremendous job with 6 of them running faster times today in the Marathon than they did in the qualifying marathon that got them into today's event. With 25,000 runners, this event is certainly an incredible event.
Assuming all 25,000 runners ran the full 26.2 miles, this is equal to 655,000 miles. If this was done in individual cars averaging 20 miles per gallon at today's average gas price of $3.51 per gallon.......it would have cost $114,952.50 in gas costs for this group to have made this trip. At the time when I was a kid starting to drive, this same amount of people could have driven there for $9,792.25 (.299 cents per gallon).
My 3.49 miles run this evening gives me 322.71 miles for the year.
The 1,000 mile pace bunny is at 306.88 miles.
The 500 mile pace bunny is at 153.44 miles.
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