Hey runners-connect fans, Coach Michael Hammond here with a big important update today.

It is Thursday, May the 28th,

currently 314 PM Central Time.

I just got word about an hour ago that the Boston Marathon this year has been

cancelled outright. So it had already been delayed you know from its obvious April

date to a September date and now it's been completely cancelled outright. So this is huge news in the

running sphere and certainly for us here at Runners Connect and all you guys because even if you're not running Boston

Boston is kind of like when you think of world majors and the big marathons I mean

Boston's I mean it's got to be one of the biggest races in the world it's it may be

the biggest race in the world.

Not necessarily in terms of like number,

I'm not talking about like number of competitors.

I'm more so talking about like kind of the gravitas of it.

I mean it's such a huge race.

Everything else can kind of like, kind of functions off of Boston in a way.

And I think at this point, that's what, this is what's making me concerned about races,

any races going on this year.

With Boston being cancelled, it's hard to picture other races this fall, like let's say Chicago,

you know, like a month or so later,'s say New York two months later it's almost

hard to picture those races now going on I was starting to feel optimistic I won't

lie to you guys I know I've been pretty optimistic on this podcast for a few weeks now and one reason that actually I've been very optimistic this week in particular is that the

the PAC 12 okay so that's conference with like Oregon, Stanford, some really, really big sports schools.

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