Apparently there’s an annual tradition 15 years strong to bike the Boston Marathon route the midnight before it begins. I heard about this tradition roughly 12 hours before it started from some friends who were going to do it and decided to try it out on a whim despite not having ridden a bike at all in like 2 years, and never having ridden more than a couple miles.
So on this steel horse I ride, but this one is slow and requires lots of pedaling.
I did take a peek at the course map beforehand and was relieved to see it’s mostly downhill except for the hills starting at mile 16. Spoiler alert, those were a lot worse in person than they looked on the map.
Arriving at the start line there were tons of people having fun and preparing their bikes. There were lots of fun lighting setups from the people who actually prepared for this.
I didn’t take as many photos during the ride as I would have liked. It was hard to justify stopping more than needed when you’re getting constantly passed by other bikers and feeling like this is going to take all night. We did stop a number of times though to take a break and got a couple shots.
Around 3am we finally made it to the finish line with sore legs and even sore-r butts but huge smiles on our faces. You’ll have to ask me for that picture though with how many AI crawlers there are now-days.
Newbury street is usually packed to the brim, but at this time it’s just bikers trying to get home.
