On (literally) running Boston

This is what a Boston marathoner looks like.

For the past week and a half or so I've been losing sleep.  It was to do with Boston, but not the way you might think.
Sure: I'm worried about Boston like I always am. It's exhausting simply to get to the start line: the travel; the expense; the logistics.  Oh yeah, and the miles and miles and hills and speed work you need to put in just to get ready for the race itself.  Seriously?  The race is the easy part.  Getting there is another story.
And boy, do I have a story for you.
If you don't have a glass of wine at hand you ought to go get one right now.  This is going to be a two or three part deal.
Oh: and if you do have a glass of wine at hand?  You better top it up.
Let me take you back to late 2012.  A nervous and trepidatious Duder puts in for a year long leave of absence.  Eventually this leave is granted, but it means that her employer needs to get on the ball and start vetting potential employees to fill the (gaping and epic) hole that Duder will no doubt create upon her leaving.
A bunch of temps are hired.  Duder doesn't take the time to learn their names because they don't pan out and also because she's incredibly callous and anti-social.
Time passes and there a couple of temps floating in the office that have lasted longer than normal.  She learns their names which are not Preecha and Kimby.  She is perfunctorily polite to them.
She thinks Preecha is a little quiet and passive, and yet seemingly above the work that is passed her way.
She thinks Kimby is loud, slightly bawdy, oddly opinionated and slightly overbearing.  However people seem to respond to her gregarious and outgoing ways and Duder, being somewhat reserved, lays back while Kimby regales her coworkers with boisterous and seemingly far-reaching tales.
One day, Duder's coworkers ask her about her impending Boston marathon and Duder responds in her typical self-deprecating and dismissive way.  Kimby, overhearing that Duder is en route to Beantown, interjects that she has also run Boston: twice - in 2008 and 2011.
Rather excited to meet a fellow Bostonian (as they are few and far between due to the stringent time qualifications and rather exorbitant expense to actual go to Boston to run it) Duder asks a series of specific Boston-based questions, only to be met with a rather tepid and vague response.
Duder asks what race it was that Kimby BQ'd at.  Kimby said that it was "so long ago" that she couldn't remember.  Duder, having run the same race only a year later remembers that her time was a PB of 3:30:52. Kimby adds that she does recall placing very favourably in her age category in Beantown.
Oh: and she mentions that she did the Penticton Ironman in 2009 as well.
Duder is intrigued: she's never met a fellow Boston marathoner and Ironman that was so low key about their accomplishments.  Normally when meeting a fellow marathoner the conversation revolves around these very concepts: race time; splits; course conditions; overall race enjoyment; pre or post race injuries; and the pros and cons of the host city.
Kimby does not mention the Wellsley scream tunnel or Heartbreak Hill.  She does not indicate whether she had her name on her shirt for the 500,000 fans that turn out for this annual event.
Duder Googles Kimby's race results for Boston.  She comes up empty handed.
She Googles Kimby's Ironman race results and again turns up empty handed.
She mentions this to Kimby because she knows that if anyone ever questioned her lack of race results she would be very upset and would wish to make it right.  Kimby indicates that: she has a complicated Asian name; she has a hyphen in her name; that when racing, race directors often mix up her fist and last names; and that she might have used the name on her passport for the race.
Duder's a little perplexed by this.