Monday, April 16, 2018: the 122nd Boston Marathon, and the 50th anniversary of Amby Burfoot’s victory in the 1968 marathon. (click on images to embiggen):
- Amby training in Mexico
- The hordes return to Boston
- Literally, the calm before the storm
- Amby with Bobbi Gibb
- We had a plan…
- …and a soundtrack
- Jonathan Beverly lent Amby his gore-tex jacket
- The card Amby hands out to kids along the course
- Frankie got one in 2017
- He made a sign for Amby this year
- Coffee is hard, pre-coffee
- Hotel pre-race: Amby and Michelle…
- …and Gary!
- VIP tent, pre-race
- Still dry and warm. What’s not to be happy about?
- Mike Myers, pitcher for the 2004 Red Sox, ran for the ALS Angel Fund
- In the gym
- In the start corral
- Walk break!
- The finish line approaches
- The Three Amigos
- Smelling the finish
- Almost…
- Almoster…
- Hi, y’all!
- Hi, Cristina!
- Flood, Sweat, and Tears
- VIP tent post-race
- Amby would have had to bend over to take off his socks for his post-race shower
- “We didn’t see any fish on the course until mile 24.”
- Well-earned
- She agrees.
- Post-race dinner
- A rebuttal?