Made it into BAA's Racers' Record Book!

Nice surprise in the digital download I got in e-mail today.

Every year after the Boston Marathon, it's always somewhat interesting to see the photos the BAA includes in their Racers' Record Book that provides all of the coverage from the weekend's events, in addition to all of the finishing times. While plenty are expected -- all of the elites and the various age group winners -- the rest of us "ordinary" marathoners are also featured on occasion.

Given my record attempt this year, I decided to pre-order the book, just in case they put my attempt in there. (And to have yet another souvenir if/when the record is ratified.) Well, sure enough, they did.

While they allude to the potential record, they don't state outright that I set it because they can't (as I couldn't when contacting BAA for some of the evidence I'll want to use), because I still don't even have all of the requirements for the record sent to me -- hopefully those will arrive in the next few weeks and will coincide with what I actually did.

What's more, they gave a great full-page photo to one of the women who ran with me. (And you can see me/my outfit behind her.) It was a great jump for joy shortly after the last photo we made sure to take on-course at the "One Mile To Go" banner in Kenmore Square (just past the iconic Citgo sign) and right before she kicked it into high gear for the finish.

Wish Melissa good luck when she runs the Sydney Marathon next month. She will be pursuing her own Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon dressed in a traditional Chinese cheongsam (female). She's certainly plenty fit to make the time required (under 4:45:00). Hopefully the weather is cool enough and the hills aren't too difficult to handle in as tight an outfit as the cheongsam is.