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Originally Posted by Burdzthewurd
Hope any WBMers near the Marathon are ok. Bomb detonated in front of the coffee shop I'm at 4x a week, scary stuff.
Hi guys. Thanks for thinking about us. The good news is that me and the team I coach are all ok and accounted for, huddled up in our hotel. We were fortunate enough to all be fast enough to have finished before this happened. Most of our team was already back at the hotel. 3 of our ladies were walking back from the finish and heard two loud successive blasts. Aside from being a bit shaken up, they're fine.
I imagine that the confusion must be terrible for those who started racing late. I was off at the gun at 10 AM, but two more waves started at 1020 and 1040. Since the race was immediately canceled after the attack, huge numbers of runners had to exit the course. Cell coverage has been awful (it was a huge pain getting in touch with my wife) so I hope these runners can make contact with their families at first opportunity.
It's tough typing this on my phone, but my brief thoughts are as follows: This is basically Munich. There isn't another sports event as pure as a foot race. %99.99 of the field (myself obviously included) do it knowing that we have a zero-percent probability of winning. Other runners can vouch, but the only people we really race against are ourselves. 28,000 runners wanting nothing more than to defiantly push ourselves against our body's limits. And this bloodthirsty coward took aim at these peaceful runners and the fans who cheered us on. All terrorism is obviously abhorrent, but it takes a special kind of evil to target this kind of celebration of the human spirit.