I know in our own club, there was a huge differential in chip and clock times. Knowing how we all fared on the chip would have been informative, enlightening, and most of all accurate information. Maybe those times will be published in the results book. I doubt it tough. If there was one sure outcome of the 100th Boston Marathon, it was a post event letdown.
Life goes on, and so does running.
We all looked forward to the big race, now it's on the to the next race, the next run, the next marathon. The bar was set impossibly high on that one. All of the pre race hysteria made it feel special, especially knowing how precious the numbers were. As a qualified runner, that provided a sense of pride and accomplishment in my running. After all however, it was simply a marathon run.