April 16, 2023 – Slinger, WI – Addison Elementary School Principal Joel Dziedzic competes Monday, April 17 in the 127th running of the Boston Marathon.
Dziedzic has been sharing his journey and a portion of his travel journal is below with stops at the Boston Marathon Expo, the start line, 2013 memorial, and Quincy Market.
Lots of sightseeing and checking out the city on Saturday.  Met up with some friends and visited the expo again to take it all in.
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Saturday was the 10-year anniversary of the 2013 Boston bombing.
There were a number of events celebrating #BOSTONSTRONG
The 127th Boston Marathon steps off Monday at 10 a.m. Over 30,000 runners are expected to compete.
In 2022 the men’s overall winner was Evans Chebet, 33, of Kenya, who scored his first major marathon victory with a time of 2:06:51. For the women Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, beat Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia, by just four seconds with a time of 2:21:01.
“I was doing really well the whole race with a pace time of 6:52 per mile and then it (the time) kept creeping up,” said Dziedzic about his race in 2022.
Dziedzic’s goal is to finish in under 3 hours.  His time in 2022 was 3:11.
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