After the Boston Marathon, the clam chowder ritual begins

Evan Wooden does issues slightly otherwise on Marathon Monday.

The 32-year-old New Yorker has developed a novel custom to have a good time operating the Marathon annually: consuming a quart of clam chowder. 

This yr marks the third time Wooden has taken on New England’s favourite soup in heaping portions, persevering with a ritual he began, and repeated in 2023. The query, in fact, is the way it started.

After the primary two Boston Marathons, he stated, “I used to be shivering to demise and love clam chowder slightly an excessive amount of.”

So after ending the 2026 Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 37 minutes and 43 seconds — a private report — Wooden was famished.

He returned to his lodge to bathe, become regular garments and eat a sandwich (he needed to eat one thing, he admitted), earlier than heading to Authorized Sea Meals in Downtown Crossing.

The “mild jog into Boston,” he joked, was probably the most unhinged a part of his day, adopted by the quart of clam chowder — $29.96 value.

“I ate that chowder in report velocity,” he stated. “Two private data in sooner or later!”

Annie Jonas is a Group author at Boston.com. She was beforehand a neighborhood editor at Patch and a freelancer on the Monetary Occasions.