As I mentioned before, the New Bedford race was on a beautiful day with nice scenery. You can see Buzzard's Bay over my shoulder in one of the shots.
I feel a little bad about the other runner you see in the picture behind me. I noticed him early on, always about 30 seconds to a minute ahead of me for the entire race.
The red jersey is our Dana-Farber training jersey. When I fired it up for the last few miles, I managed to catch him in the final straight away...I pointed to my jersey. He gave me a thumbs up. For a second I thought maybe we should cross the finish line together as a show of unity. I think he said something like, "See you in Boston." I looked at my watch at that moment and saw I might break 1:50:00, and a burst of selfish adrenaline overtook me and I darted ahead for the last 15 seconds.
The brain is very tired by that point, and if your original race plan is to sprint to the finish (mine always is), it is easy to get carried away like that.
But don't worry, I didn't block his finish photo shots, and for both of us, this was a tune-up race for the big one April 19.
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