Former 400 Pound Man Finishes Boston Marathon - Dead Last

[Daanyeer]

Source: blog.whatwouldjacobdo.com
April 18, 2007

How do you like them apples????



n what can only be described at the most horrific experience of my life. I, Jacob Seilheimer, completed the Boston Marathon...

DEAD LAST.

And I'm damn proud of it.

Here are a few pictures from yesterday...

I got down to Boston around 1:30 in the morning due to circumstances beyond my control. I got to bed at 2:30 and woke up at 5:30.

I had an elaborate plan to rest up all night. But as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men...

So it ended up being a mad scramble to make it to Hopkinton when I was supposed to. This is me on the bus being transported to the start of race...



It was an absolute mob scene when I got to the starting line. There were 20,000 runners there and that didn't even include all the volunteers and spectators. We were engulfed inside a monsoon-type weather system (so much so that 2,500 runners didn't even show up to pick up their numbers to race).

It was pretty awe-inspiring.

The race organizers set up fencing on both sides of the street to direct the runners. I kept to the side as they let a few groupings of several thousands of runners pass. I'm going on the record as saying that I've never been visually-assaulted as much I was during the time period.

And it was not all in my head.

I got a few dozens NASTY looks from other runners. Some snickers. Some laughs. blah. blah. blah.

It's been awhile since I've felt that uncomfortable.

However, there were quite a few runners that won't out of there way to tell me congrats on making this far and good luck...

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