Race officials say runners wary of the heat are allowed to skip Monday's Boston Marathon. WBZ reports.
"Tom likes me at any size. I'm lucky that way," says the Hot in Cleveland star
About to turn 50, the actress runs for charity and finds a "bliss" beyond even Champagne
The running world regained its familiar axis Monday as two African runners, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya and Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia, won the men's and women's Boston Marathon in 2:05:52 and 2:26:11, respectively.
Forty years ago the competitor field for the Boston Marathon was small enough that doctors listened to every runner's heart before the race.
Among runners, it's a statement that awes: "I qualified for Boston."
If you're 34-year-old Meb Keflezighi, what tribute could you possibly come up with that would be a fitting honor for your friend and training partner Ryan Shay, who collapsed and died in November 2007 during the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in New York City?
Paula Radcliffe will face a tough challenge from Salina Kosgei when she bids to clinch a third successive New York City Marathon title next month.
1. Boston Marathon I was once a good runner. Not Olympic/NCAA good, but better-than-most-road racers good. I ran 32:50 for 10K and 50:59 for 15K and several times tried training for a marathon, but on each occasion got injured. This was 25 years ago. Now I have arthritis in one knee and can't run much, so I ride a bike. I have covered many Boston Marathons, but never ran it. I wish I had. I wish I had just sucked it up, qualified, and run it once relatively slowly, even in the years long after my prime.
Ethiopia's Deriba Merga forgot his Olympic disappointment when he won Monday's 113th Boston Marathon ahead of Kenyan Daniel Rono and Ryan Hall of America.
The rate at the Marriott Copley in Boston on Wednesday and Thursday night was $100. When asked what it would be for Friday, the first night of Patriots Day Weekend, which includes the Boston Marathon, a helpful desk clerk said $399 -- with a straight face.
There's an old French expression: "An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man." No one ever thought of Paul Newman in those terms. In a way, men and women alike saw him more as an heroic athlete than a performing actor.
BEIJING -- On Friday night, at around 8:30 in the Bird's Nest, women's running completed a protracted journey. That's when the first of three heats in the first women's Olympic 3,000-meter steeplechase began. When the gun went off, it meant that, with the exception of the 50k racewalk, every track and field event that is contested at the Olympics for men, is also contested for women.
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