All Things Travel: Marathoners Stick Around The City
BOSTON (CBS) - Marathoners like Boston and thousands of them spent the day after the race relaxing in the city. Hundred could be seen on Boylston Street in their blue and orange jackets.
Thornton's Restaurant and Café on Huntington Avenue opened for breakfast at 7 a.m. 17 people were in line and one-half hour later, 10 people were out the door waiting.
Across from the Marriott Hotel, people were starting to line up for Duck Tours. Most people do not know that all of the trolley tours and other operators in the Back Bay shut down on Patriot's Day as most of the roads are closed.
Under the direction of Interstate Rentals of Boston, 200 workers dismantled the finish line overnight on Boylston Street. The street itself did not reopen to cars until about 1 p.m. on Tuesday.
Double-parked delivery trucks on Boylston Street helped cause a major traffic gridlock at Boylston and Exeter Street.
It took a Logan Back Bay Express bus 14 minutes to get from the Convention Center to the Public Library stop, a half-a-dozen blocks just before noon.
The biggest activity of the morning was at Marathon Sports at the Finish Line. There marathoners could get their medals engraved with their official race time at no cost. Runners and their families waited patiently in line for an hour for the engraving.
The weather was warmer and sunny and everyone had a smile on their face.
At the final Boston Athletic Association media conference, it was disclosed that about 3,000 runners of the official entrants, had not gone to the starting line.
At my breakfast at Thornton's, I chatted with a qualifier from Montreal who was running his 17th Marathon and did not begin long distance running until he was 50 years old.
He was not dressed for yesterday's weather and stopped at a medical tent for assistance. When he was told there was no bus to take him back to Boston, he set out again and came across the finish line in just over four hours.
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