Austin Matzko's Blog » Marathon http://austinmatzko.com A blog about philosophy, Christianity, web development and whatever else I feel like writing about. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:14:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC4-18391 Boston Marathon 2007 http://austinmatzko.com/2007/04/16/boston-marathon-2007/ http://austinmatzko.com/2007/04/16/boston-marathon-2007/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:34:59 +0000 filosofo http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2007/04/16/boston-marathon-2007/

Last year’s marathon saw Robert Cheruiyot set the race’s record time, but this year’s “nor’easter” gusted cold rain on the runners, giving both men and women their slowest winning times in decades.

Elite men run the 2007 Boston marathon

Robert Cheruiyot, last year’s winner (here in yellow) took the lead near the end to win the Boston marathon for the third time.

Chonghee Suh runs the 2007 Boston marathon

Melita, Sam, and I cheered on Melita’s friend Chonghee Suh.

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The top three women pass near my home; from left to right they placed first, third, and second.

Robert Cheruiyot decides he has plenty of room to spare on his way to beating the course record by one second.

Somewhere behind Cheruiyot is Miles Coleman, a friend from South Carolina. Go Miles!

For more on the marathon, see the official site, where you can look up individual runners and see the course map. Wanna see the whole course from a runner’s eye view in about four minutes? Check out this video by the folks at Boston.com.

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