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TuxedoTom

The comeback is underway.

Sub-elite marathoner. Slightly overdressed. Back at it.

A public running comeback in cutoff tuxedo shirts — one honest mile at a time.

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Chapter One

The Return

Same runner. A little older. A lot more appreciative.

I used to live at sub-elite pace — the kind of fitness where hard miles felt familiar and race mornings felt like home.

Then life got busy. Work. Travel. Red-eyes. Hotel rooms. Long stretches where running slowly moved from a priority to something I'd get back to eventually.

Eventually is now. This isn't a highlight reel. It's the rebuild — publicly, honestly, and one mile at a time. And apparently we're doing it dressed for the occasion.

Chapter Two

The Races

The résumé the comeback is measured against.

Marathon · April 16, 2018

122nd Boston Marathon

2:42:33
Net time · gun time 2:43:43
199thof 14,203 men
200thof 25,831 overall
186thof 4,772 in division
“My goal was 2:37. I didn’t hit my goal time, but I’m still pleased with 2:42 given the head wind and rain.” Press Herald, April 16, 2018
Race-day weather · Boston Marathon, April 16, 2018

Cold, wet, and straight into the wind.

40–45°FAir temperature
29–38°FFeels like
15–26 mphHeadwind, gusts to 33
0.6 inRain, 9 AM to 3 PM
“The most brutal conditions I’ve ever run in.” Shalane Flanagan, elite runner · Boston.com, April 16, 2018
“It was brutal… my hands were freezing and there were times when you were just stood up by the wind.” Desiree Linden, women’s champion · Boston.com, April 16, 2018
“I never got warm. My body was shaking.” Marcel Hug, men’s wheelchair champion · Boston.com, April 16, 2018

Observations from the Boston Logan airport weather station (KBOS), 9 AM to 3 PM, from the NOAA station archive. Wind was out of the northeast, against runners heading east. Inland at Worcester (KORH), gusts reached 36 mph and it felt like 23°F at the start.

Four Bostons · 2015 to 2018
YearBibAgeOverallGenderDivisionOfficial timeNet time
20154153343112 / 265982929 / 145802126 / 49643:05:123:02:23
20165351352616 / 266292403 / 144631658 / 48023:11:403:08:25
20172276364265 / 264003720 / 144312213 / 47733:19:033:18:07
2018250337200 / 25831199 / 14203186 / 47722:43:432:42:33

First sub-3:00 at Boston, after a 3:18 a year earlier. Eighteen weeks averaging 75 miles and peaking at 85, run into a cold headwind and a downpour. The rest of the résumé is still being dug out of the archive.

Chapter Three

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