Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker.

When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers.

And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know.

If you're a new runner or you or even doing this for a long time,

there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. Hey everyone, welcome to

the Ryan Explained podcast. I am Elizabeth and this week, as is seems to be now tradition,

I'm going to be recapping my experience running the Boston Marathon, which did this past, actually, Monday,

since it's held on Patriot State, the third Monday of April, Patriot State is a holiday in the state

of Massachusetts and Maine, which fun fact, Maine and Massachusetts used to be the same state.

It used to be both Massachusetts, and then because of things with like granting statehood to the

South and blah, blah, anyways anyways Maine became its own state.

Why do I know this?

Because I'm from Maine.

And when you grow up in a state, you learn a lot about your state's history,

which I think is important sometimes.

But we're not here to talk about the history of Maine's statehood.

We're here to talk about the Boston Marathon.

Now, this episode, I'm a little close to the race in order to, I think,

process a lot of the emotions that I have about it fully. And so in order to keep this episode

under five hours, I'm really just going to be today walking through, I don't tell you about the race, about

the experience, about the weekend, about the course, about what happened.

And I'm assuming, and I'm planning on at some point kind of doing a deep dive, probably

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