fff|ggg|boston_marathon_2004/FH000011_3|Tom in last year’s Marathon|ggg
Tom in last year’s Marathon|fff

Today marks the 109th running of the ***Boston Marathon|http://www.bostonmarathon.org/***. Becky’s uncle Tom is going to be running it again this year. Last year, Becky and I were able to take the day off and ***watch the Marathon|http://prwdot.org/archives/001727.html***, but this year we’ll be cheering Tom on from afar. If you’re interested in tracking Tom’s progress, you can go to the ***Boston Marathon|http://www.bostonmarathon.org/*** site once the race begins, and put in his bib number: 21485.

Good luck, Tom!

Update
***Direct link to the athlete tracking page|http://www.bostonmarathon.org/cfm_Public/2005/pg_AthleteTrack2005.cfm***

Update @ 1:20 PM
Tom has passed the 10k mark and his pace is currently 8 minutes per mile. If he can keep it up, he’ll finish in about three hours and 30 minutes. Go Tom!!

Update @ 2:45 PM
As of the 30k checkpoint, Tom was still right on the 8 minutes per mile pace, for a projected running time of 3 hours 30 minutes 54 seconds. That would put him finishing at around 3:40 PM. Keep up the good work!!

Update @ 4:00 PM
Tom has completed the Marathon in 3 hours, 40 minutes, 35 seconds! His time last year was 4 hours, 8 minutes, 43 seconds – that’s nearly half an hour that he slashed off of his time. And he came in only 10 minutes later than the time he had hoped for. Congratulations Tom!!