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...weather is anything like it was yesterday, the marathon field faces a scorching 26 miles and 385 yards starting in the small town of Hopkinton and ending in front of the Prudential Tower on Hereford Street...
...Charles River winds its sleepy, polluted way from Echo Lake in Hopkinton through 25 municipalities, over 21 dams, past factories, groves, and meadows to Boston Inner Harbor. It takes the Charles eighty miles to cover what an average crow could do in thirty...
When Mike Brittin lines up today in Hopkinton to start his first Boston Marathon he may not remember Philadelphia--but he probably will remember the pain it took to get there. To qualify for the BAA race a contestant must have previously finished a marathon in three hours and 30 minutes...
...runners will start in Hopkinton, and move through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton and then hit "Heartbreak Hill" in the Boston College area, (230 feet above sea level), at around the 20-mile mark. From there it is literally downhill into the center of Boston and the finish at the Prudential Building...
...milling throng that Sauer joined at the starting line in rural Hopkinton, Mass., was motley, to say the least. Along with serious competitors from a dozen countries, there were college kids out for a lark, aging jocks in flowered bathing suits competing on a dare, drinking companions who planned to pace themselves with stops at wayside taverns and-officially for only the second year-women of all ages. Alfred Ventrillo, a sightless, 65-year-old pensioner, was running "to inspire blind people." Author Erich Segal was toting a portable microphone to record his on-the-run comments...