During the Boston Marathon Monday, April 20, media specialist Theresa Gosnell was never alone.

Usually when Gosnell runs a marathon, she runs by herself at parts of the race with no one surrounding her. This was not the case for her first time at the Boston Marathon.

“Sometimes it was hard to maneuver where you wanted,” Gosnell said. “The amount of people partaking in it was unbelievable.”

With this being her fifth marathon, Gosnell knows that every marathon is different. For instance, the Boston Marathon is downhill at first, which makes it more difficult because it wears on the runner’s legs. Also, this marathon had 30,000 people running compared to 2,000, more of what Gosnell is used to.

To start the race, the runners were bused to the starting line. From there, the runners ran through six different towns and ended up in the heart of Boston, 26.2 miles away from the starting line.

Gosnell is happy with her time of three hours, nine minutes and 50 seconds at an average of seven minutes per mile. Although it’s not her fastest time, she ended up getting 34^th in her division, 395^th in female and 4,610^th overall.

“[Finishing the race] is probably the hardest part for me because you’re just so happy that you’re done but you hurt so bad,” Gosnell said. “You need food right away. When I ran this particular marathon, right when I got done it starting down pouring and I was freezing.”

As of now, Gosnell doesn’t have any plans to run another marathon.