Number 3 on the Podium...

... But still number one in my pants heart. I’m talking about Kara Goucher (a fellow CU alum), who finished 3rd in the Boston Marathon yesterday. I kept checking in on the race throughout the morning and was thrilled to see her in the lead pack early. As the race wore on, I was even more excited to see her leading the pack, pushing the pace (somewhat) and working to drop some of the other runners off the back. This worked as she eventually whittled the lead pack down to 3 runners but couldn’t hang with Kosgei (the eventual winner) and Tune as they surged past her with 800 meters to go. Kara was visibly upset at finishing 3rd so I thought I’d try to cheer her up by posting a list of things that she finished first in yesterday:

• Sexiest runner (women’s division).
• Sexiest runner (overall).
• Hottest ever application of arm warmers. (Those things have never looked so good.)
• Only person to ever successfully pull off the black running shoes/black athletic socks combo.
• Hottest person to ever wear NFL style wide receiver gloves (apparently she had a problem grabbing water bottles in the NYC marathon and this was the solution).
• Easily beat all runners from rival school NU (ha!) Note: I didn’t research this but I’m pretty sure Kosgei and Tune didn’t go to NU.

Get out of the bike lane!
Oh yeah, I guess some American named Ryan Hall also took 3rd in the Boston Marathon but he suffers the unfortunate fault of not being as hot as Kara. It’s OK Ryan, not many are. Congrats to both runners all the same.

Image credit: Steward Dawson (Flickr) - Many more pictures of the race here.