Wow, that is something, I read Joe Falls’ book on the Boston Marathon and that came out in 1976, so quite some time even then. It certainly has a colorful history. A great sports event. There are surely, a number of books chronicling the Boston Marathon.
It was fun——but by the 80s there were so many runners it wasn’t fun anymore———people could even run without a number——after the bombing I guess you need a number to run,but there are still thousands————and once the winners were always Africans the excitement kind of went out of it anyway.
The emergency crews are everyplace though,a young friend collapsed with hyperthermia about 20 miles in-——and they were INSTANTLY there and knew how to handle it.
Astonishing.
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