Marathon Monday!

Marathon Monday is one of the most amazing days of the whole year!! I can’t imagine that there is any other city that celebrates the marathon like Boston does! The Boston Marathon always falls on the third Monday of April, and coincides with Patriot’s Day (which up until five seconds ago when I Wikipedia’d it, I had no idea what Patriot’s Day was for…)

Patriot's Day is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.

So while the rest of the country is sitting in class or at work, we get a whole day to celebrate!!

Boston University LOVES Marathon Monday! It seems to be tradition here to wake up as early as possible, start the festivities before the clock hits 9, and make your way toward Beacon St, where the marathon runs through BU’s campus!

Our sorority takes Marathon Monday very seriously, buying matching shirts every year and starting off the day with a sisterhood event of breakfast and drinks! As a wanna-be-serious-runner, I LOVE watching the actual marathon, and made sure that my friends and I got to Beacon St in time to watch the elite runners run through! It’s amazing how tiny these people are!! And how fast!!! As the day moves on, it’s so cool to see how many people are able to run 26.2 miles, young, old, it never ceases to amaze me!!! After a full day of festivities, a few friends and I finished the day off by laying out our towels and tanning on Nickerson Field, since it was 90 degrees in Boston! Amazing for us, but I can’t image how it was for the runners!

This year was definitely my favorite Marathon Monday so far! (Even though I missed so many of my favorite girls who were celebrating in sprit from their countries overseas!) Freshman year, Marathon Monday fell the day before our HUGE anatomy practical, so it wasn’t such a fun day for me, and last year, Marathon Monday was the day of the first Passover seder, so halfway through the day I hopped on a train with Evie and Hilary and went home to celebrate with our families (maybe not the ideal way to celebrate MM, but it certainly was a fun train ride…)

Here are some pictures from the day!!