“Two years ago I was lucky enough to meet Adrianne Haslet, a survivor of the 2013 Marathon bombings”, he wrote Monday on Facebook.
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President Barack Obama noticed her effort and praised her for being “Boston Strong”. They included the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), Massachusetts State Police (MSP), Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS), Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Boston Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board, New Mexico Tech, Texas A&M Engineering (TEEX), and Louisiana State University.
David Cilley posted the fastest time for any Erie County runner who crossed the finish line during Monday’s 120th Boston Marathon.
Also entered in the race is Patrick Downes, a Boston College graduate who had his left leg amputated after the bombings.
Downes reached the finish line just minutes before 2:49 p.m., the time of the explosions, finishing in 5 hours, 56 minutes, 46 seconds.
Boston Marathon women’s victor Atsede Baysa and men’s victor Lemi Berhanu Hayle, led a dominant group of Ethiopian runners in Monday’s race.
It’s Hayle’s first major marathon victory and Ethiopia’s first-ever sweep of the men’s and women’s races in Boston. The 2016 Boston Marathon by the numbers: 10,000 trash bags, 9,000 barricades, 992 portable toilets, 108,000 safety pins, 1.4 million paper cups, 3,300 pounds of pasta, 28,200 bananas, 43,000 apples, 500 barf bags, 1,500 blankets, 500 tubes of petroleum jelly, 35,000 gallons of spring water, 906 dozen bagels, 400 rolls of paper towels. Both are on their way from Hopkinton to Boston as part of the mobility-impaired division in Monday’s 120th running of the venerable marathon.
Most of the top Americans, including 2014 victor Meb Keflezighi, skipped the race after running in the U.S. Olympic trials in February.
Director Jon Dunham and producer Megan Williams traveled across the globe to interview runners, from Bob Hall, the first wheelchair marathoner, to Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run and finish the marathon, officially. Gibb served as the grand marshal this year, riding down Boylston in a sports vehicle before breaking a ceremonial finish-line tape. “I think about the start line”.
Haslet says she received support all along the 26.2 mile route. American Neely Spence Gracey marks her marathon debut in Boston with personal connections.
“My husband said to me this morning that today, that like the day of the bombing, no one is going to remember my time” she said “He said that year all anyone cared about was that I was safe, and this year all anyone will care about is that I got the tenth”.
“Not only the crowd, but the runners too were encouraging, so supportive”, she said.
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She is running with a four-person team on behalf of the Oklahoma City-based Limbs for Life Foundation, which provides prosthetics to people who can’t afford them.
