Lori shows up at the World Trade Center on Saturday for the Run to Remember charity half marathon expecting the course to wend along the Charles and through downtown. She's disheartened to hear the course has been changed to go through South Boston. But then the race begins:

... On this course, I expected only the cargo terminals and warehouses of streets like Black Falcon and Dry Dock Avenues, but as we pushed farther into Southie, we were treated to slices of neighborhood life and groups of spectators who'd come out of their triple-deckers to stand on the sidewalk and cheer us on. ...