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Dishes for a month 🍽️ - keep up the great work y’all!

Loser does dishes and watches whatever winner wants for a month. I wrote this before you said dishes. Haha

Phew, that was close! I needed 1.5yrs of dedicated training (plus bike training before that) to make it sub 5. 4:59:44, to be exact. I blame my age ;-) Next time, you will scratch at 4:45!

Hi Katie. Your advice on Boston was perfect, especially the point about knowing the history of the race. It fills the runner with awe, and that's a great way to cross the starting line. I've run Boston 16 times between 2000 and 2022, and set my marathon PR (3:13:55) there in 2002. As you note, it is not an easy course to PR, but if you plan and prepare, surprising things can happen. My advice for running Boston is don't hold back TOO much in the beginning. I did that in 2021, coasting the first half and saving my legs for Newton hills, only to find that my quads were locked in a limited range of motion because I had not been lifting my knees and kicking back my heels. Suffered greatly on those hills and finished poorly. The following year I went out easy but focused on contracting and stretching my quads as I ran. Fared much better that year. Keep up the great videos!

Well done Caleb! Videography was great too. The drone shot above and below the bridge… brave!

Nice work on the video and race! The goal will come soon, Ive heard the run was pretty difficult there this year. Definitely considering adding the stryd pod to my training, run power seems like a great data metric to use. See you in September! 🚂

What a great video. Event looks like great. Getting me pumped for my own 70.3 in a few weeks . Sub 5 will come at some point, racing aint easy 💪

Great video as always. Sub 5 is right around the corner. Almost had me crying when you said Efird's don't quit. Crazy looking at all the bikes in the transition area.

I just ran my marathon this past Mother's day, and beat my BQ by 8:36mins, was hoping for 10mins...but I got stuck in a porta potty for 2mins at around 28km! I'm 95% sure I'm good for a bib for Boston 2025, but you never know...I already time qualified and was accepted to run Chicago 2024, so I don't plan to run another marathon in the 2025 qualifying period. Worst case, if I get cut for 2025....I run Chicago with a chip on my shoulder and qualify for Boston 2026. This is easy info for runners to digest, on a topic that isn't clearly laid out. Well done!

Exactly what I needed! Thank you!

This was exactly my experience! I wanted sub 3:35, got to about mile 16/17 and thought I’ll have to adjust. Didn’t look at my watch and was surprised to finish in 3:42! I’ll definitely be back for Boston number 4 next year. I love this marathon so much. It’s a special one. Well done on 3:20! And good luck with your races this year 😊😊

What an emotional rollercoaster! Congratulations on not giving up! I loved watching your journey onto the Boston marathon giving lots of information. I have just run a got my first BQ last Sunday with 9.14 under qualifying time so hopefully it will be enough to fulfill my dream goal!

Awesome finishing time!💪. Boston 2024 is my first Boston and probably the only Boston as I'm from Asia. 🙏

A very heartfelt reflection on the race. Thank you for sharing. This was my first Boston Marathon, and outside of some Ironman races, my slowest marathon distance since at least 2000. I am from Tucson, Arizona and quite frankly heat has always been a strength of mine. However it really affected me this time around, and I can say that I took in more fluids and calories than ever before and I still struggled. While I’m still scratching my head a bit, I know that lots of others are in the same boat. I will say that the Boston experience had a profound effect on me, and I’m inspired to qualify and come back next year! First qualifying race is in 4 weeks!

That was actually a great finishing time compared to your A goal. My story was eerily similar to yours... I knew I should have switched to my B goal before the start, but didn't. And around mile 10, I crashed. It was the sun mainly. I ended up walking the water stops and shuffling the last 10 miles, trying not to DNF. It was disappointing, but at least we finished. I may try and get my revenge next year 😏

Once you have redlined, walking doesn't help....it will drop the HR, but as soon as you start running again you will shoot right back to where you were. The only solution is to keep yourself in check and not redline in the first place....easy right? LOL. This is why I run with power (Stryd) instead of pace....it's like RPE for dummies. I still monitor the HR to make sure my body just isn't having an off day. But once I know my target power numbers, if I stick within those, I'm generally safe. The other option is a watch like Coros that uses a modified GAP, I think they call it effort pace, where it calculates what your current GAP is so it basically keeps you at a semi-consistent effort level, but they don't take air power into account like Stryd does, which I find is a HUGE factor for me. Congrats on having a successful Boston. I know many people who had a significantly harder day than you did. Well done!

Well done! I was running too! :)

great video, i watched it 4 times after each other because it gets to me as you explained perfectly why. Boston gets to you... it is on my bucketlist for years but for an european it is not so easy to get on the starting grid unless you pay $$$$$$ .. if i only can get the ticket to enter... that would be magical and a dream come true.. maybe in 2025 i hope

You described the experience so beautifully. This Boston was my first and as hard as it was all I could think after was: I want to do it again! Thank you for all your videos in preparation to the race, I used the advice and they really really help me. You're awesome.

Thanks for sharing that great video. Just watched it with my two girls (6&3) in a jet-lagged state after getting back from our 2-wk Boston Marathon trip (from NZ). It was a good reminder of how hard the day was (it was my 3rd marathon and I ran it about 30mins slower than my qualifying run 🥵). Unfortunately only found your channel a few days before we left for our trip, so only managed to watch a few of your videos. I’m sure I’ll be watching more (along with my girls)!

Great watch! My experience was very similar to yours and your monologue at the end gave me a positive perspective on what I couldn’t avoid the disappointment after the race.

I was in the trenches with you, this takes me right back and honestly tears me up. What a great video and job well done!! 💪💪

I like people who don't make excuses for living. I love crazy people! People like me!

Thank you so much for your videos about the Boston Marathon. They helped me so much to navigate all things around the event, I also went with the idea of a PB but BM humbled me. I am so happy that I finished! Keep it up!

Great race! I had an awful race but fun experience. That was the hottest race that I have done. I lost my quads in Newton (still looking for them) and I walked/jogged it in. The crowds and volunteers were amazing. I cant wait to requalify and run it again

Wow! That was a great video. Deserves a million views. Congratulations on a super effort. I ran a similar race in Boston where the temps were mid 70s. Just finish becomes the only goal for sure. Hopefully the weather will be kinder to you next time.

My first Boston and many more as an adult in my 20’s I always pic myself running the Boston marathon-especially where I grew up although moving to CA 2-3yrs I made it happen in 7 months of hard and grit training. Yeah had some running back ground in me at age 45 I finally made it happen . the point is not forgetting who you are and what ur aspirations are in life - thank you to my running comm etc - now off to Chicago, and yes sub3 in that awful weather haha

Great video and a great race! Well done!

Mi first major 🙏 lucky to happen to be Boston ! And yes, all you show in the video is so true, describe exactly how it meant to me....thank you !!

Excellent content! Loved this vid + that opening shot was fantastic. My first Boston and experienced all the things you mentioned. Thanks for capturing the Boston marathon experience so well!

Nice production! Thank you for sharing.

Congrats on just finishing! That was so hard, and I thought about quitting so many times. Also, this video was awesome. You two are killing it on TH-cam!! I'm honestly jealous with how fast you are growing. 💪💪🏃‍♂🏃‍♀

Hi Katie, Thanks so much for posting this. It was my first Boston Marathon and it was all such a blur, this helped me remember some of those special, little moments. I now remember the friendly volunteers greeting us at the high school and the announcer in Athlete's Village calling people out. I made a lot of mistakes on my run, starting with not adjusting my fuel/hydration schedule to account for the heat. I cramped hard around mile 10 and made my first Gatorade stop at that point. Walking a bit, my legs started to work again and I pushed on, slowly, until the end. Congrats on a great run and I hope to see you next year! ;-) Oh, and I did manage to get my Sam Adams pint glass! Cheers! 🍻

😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️ amazing. Katie’s heart and grit is so inspiring! Caleb you captured this whole experience so beautifully. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

today is one Boston day. rip Martin Richard (killed by the second bomb) Krystle Campbell (killed by the first bomb) Lingzi lu (killed by the second bomb) Sean collier (shot to death by Tamerlan Tsarnaev) Dennis Simmonds (died from head injuries from a pipe bomb thrown by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during the Watertown shootout) I feel sorry for those 5 families that they lost their loved ones and the friends that remembers them. and they still missed them after they were wiped out during the marathon bombing.

Richard B - Bib #27424. All the best for your run!

Norman Johnstone 17723... Good luck to you 😊

Good luck in the race, we’ll be following you

Love your Boston video series! I've run it several times and I still find good tips and suggestions. One tip I like is a small, throw-away sports bottle (with spout) to drink my favorite electrolyte mix during the first couple of miles. It's so crowded at the start that I skip the first few fluid stations. If I toss bottle around mile 2-3 then the fluids at mile 4 or 5 are perfect (first is at 2 mi as you mentioned). That sort of jump starts my fluids (esp if warm) without the need for endless port-a-potty lines pre-race from drinking pre-race.

Javier M. 14911…Good luck to you 13134

You'll be long finished by the time I'm coming in. Bib 26613. Have fun!

Have a great race. Go smash it 👌

Good luck. Hope the weather is in your favour. GO KICK A$$. You sound like a smart racer, I wish I had your level head on my shoulders. Thanks for the tracking info. I'll make sure to cheer you on from up here in Canada.

This helped me pack! Thank you!

Thank you for making the Boston Marathon series of videos 👏 Very helpful information for running my first Boston Marathon and completing my 6th Star journey 🏁

Read “Dual in the sun” again as I make my way to Boston…….always gets me “jazzed” for the run.