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Web geek since the mid-'90s, #Ruby and #Rails developer since 2007, currently at #MathWorks. Former writer about #athletics (in the European sense, i.e. #running). #Parent of #twins in the Greater #Boston area. #Maine diaspora.

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 52F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.

In an Instagram post, Britney Spears announced that she would move to Boston. (No word on how this would affect the MBTA).

The Bruins and the Celtics are still in it, the Bruins with a win in overtime over the Leafs.

in 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile.

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@gbhnews The last (known) surviving runner from Bannister’s record race was also the only American: George Dole of Bath, Maine (via Yale). Dole had an illustrious career as a theologian in the Swedenborgian church and lived in Newton for years before retiring to Bath in the late ‘90s and taking over his father’s pulpit there. He died in 2021, still a regular runner and happy to talk about his little bit of history: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20807933/the-unknown-american-in-the-first-sub-4-00-mile/

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Speaking of "American" and "going to see him up front," our friend C.J. Albertson, the self-titled "best downhill runner in the world," is entered. Albertson ran the downhills from Hopkinton to Framingham so hard in 2021 that he was out of sight of the lead pack, and even though he visibly flagged climbing through Newton, they didn't catch him until Heartbreak. Albertson is also the 50km WR holder and ran a PR 2:10 at the Olympic Trials in February.

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If you find all this speculation interesting, consider subscribing to my wife's newsletter at https://fast-women.org and follow her on Instagram (link at the linked page) for photo dumps after the race; she'll be in Wellesley between the students and the half-marathon mark.

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Also note that Fedi stalwart news source @gbhnews is promising "wall-to-wall coverage" of https://mastodon.social/@gbhnews/112253364012087278

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And if you're in Boston, @Ofsevit has a guide to using the train to watch the : https://better.boston/@Ofsevit/112252480948449494

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Protocol note: in , the pro athletes have name bibs. Most have family names ("Lemma", "Geay", "Lokedi", "Teshome") but if you're a former Boston winner, you get your given name on the bib ("Evans", "Hellen", "Edna", "Caroline", or just "Des"). Win in Boston, and you're on a first-name basis with the whole region.

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