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Race directors, however, will not take action against Ruiz, Cloney said, because they have no definite proof she did not run the race. Officials at checkpoints along the 26-mile course verify only the first 100 runners to pass the checkpoint, without regard to the sex of the runners...
Perhaps Lowell House senior John Weston got the greatest boost from the crowd when he found himself running alongside a 73-year-old man. "At the 17-mile mark I was shoulder to shoulder with this guy running his 50th Marathon," Weston explained yesterday. At the 20-mile mark, a policeman called out, 'Let's have a big hand for John Kelley,' and much to my chagrin I realized they weren't yelling...
Completing the race in 3:54, Weston said he started off at an "incredibly stupid pace of six-and-a-half-minute miles" that caused him to cramp up around the 15-mile mark. "The first 15 miles I was thinking it's odd how I'm passing people, then the next ten miles I was thinking it was odd how people were passing me." Although Weston admitted that he didn't think he would finish at Heartbreak Hill, the Government major said he realized he "had to finish. The two last things I wanted to do in Boston were...
...Pearson finished 390th overall with a time of 2:40. A veteran marathoner who hasn't missed a day of training since Jan. 10, 1979, Pearson had hoped to run under 2:30 after clocking a 2:36 last year. The Mississippian took it out strong, crossing the ten-mile mark at 55:40, 20 seconds ahead of his projected time. But by the 20-mile mark, the heat began to take its toll, as Pearson found himself three minutes off his desired pace. By that point Pearson said he felt "terrible and overheated." He went on to lose seven...
Hamilton said he was on schedule for the first ten miles but began to weaken shortly after the 15-mile mark. "In the last six miles I was just putting one foot in front of the other--the crowd was the only thing that kept me going," he added...