# @emmajanelbates on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-06-04T23:49:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Emma Bates (@emmajanelbates) — https://gondola.cc/emmajanelbates

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Boston Marathon Race Recap, Part 8:

The boost of hope and happiness that is running through the wellesleycollege Scream Tunnel can carry you for miles. Once that starts to wear off, you have to turn to something else. Another source of fuel. 
Luckily, I have genucan to look forward to every 3.1 miles.

It’s always a sense of relief when Elite Fluid stations come into view. It’s almost like a checkpoint, a reset button.

💭Just get to the next station and you can recenter yourself

At one of the stations, I grabbed my UCAN bottle from the table, ripped my UCAN Edge Energy Gel from it, and immediately tossed the bottle on the ground to the side.
(Apparently it’s a controversial thing to not take water during a marathon, but UCAN is different in that you don’t need water to process the LIVSTEADY starch that it’s made of!)
But what I love most about taking gels is how easy they are to carry and discard. 

Or so they should be….

After, consuming my Edge gel, I found an avenue in which I thought would be safe to toss the packaging.
I aimed the wrapper towards the ground, whipped it as hard as I could, and as that thing left my fingertips, I knew I messed up. 
Yet again. 
As the trajectory of said gel was headed straight for some guy’s abdomen.

💭Emma! Noooooo! (But in slow motion)

The guy, in his Venezuela Jersey, gel bouncing off his middle, stood there in absolute shock.
He put his arms up and looked around himself, as if to say: 
“What did I do to deserve this??”

🗯️Omg, I’m so sorry! So so sorry!

💭Emma! Why are you like this? First the kid in New York, now this guy?!?

I wanted to stop to tell this man: 
“It’s not you it’s me!!” but instead, I continued on my way, embarrassed, lamenting for miles.

📹: vsbills genucan 

#bodtonmarathon bostonmarathon #bostonmarathon2025 #marathonrunning

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