“Now I feel like I’ve earned my medal."
May 26, 2013 2:18 PM   Subscribe

Yesterday, thousands of runners participated in One Run Boston, an one mile event organized for those who were injured in the Boston bombings, and those who were stopped on the course without a chance to finish.

The BAA recently announced that all runners who started the 2013 Boston Marathon, made it past the half marathon point and were stopped on the course will receive automatic entry into the 2014 race without needing to re-qualify.
posted by roomthreeseventeen (4 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
That was good; it's six weeks tomorrow since the original marathon. Though a full marathon distance currently seems too daunting and impossible, even after a couple of years of getting fit and working up to it, I hope to run a marathon - and preferably the Boston one - one year.
posted by Wordshore at 2:22 PM on May 26, 2013


Bravo. I read about the finish this morning and it was the right thing to do.
posted by arcticseal at 3:56 PM on May 26, 2013


I don't understand the requirement that you must have been at the half marathon mark. Those who weren't there yet are just as harmed by the bombing as those who were at the half.
posted by Unified Theory at 4:39 PM on May 26, 2013 [1 favorite]


Unified Theory, I believe that everyone they stopped was well past the half point at the time the bombs went off. So if you had a DNF (did not finish) before 13.1, it was because you were injured or pulled off the course yourself, not because of the bomb.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 6:34 PM on May 26, 2013


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