Bottom line, in case anyone hasn't yet caught on, is that John Effin Kerry is a liar. He didn't run the Boston Marathon, but for some reason has decided it makes sense to claim he did.
This morning something else came back to me. The first mention I ever saw of Kerry in a marathon was some article about the medical status of the candidates, Bush and Kerry. Kerry was quoted along the lines that he's not a heart attack risk because he is a marathon runner and has the blood pressure and pulse rate of a marathon runner.
As this was the first I'd ever heard of it, I tended to assume that if anything he had run more than one marathon and that the activity continued into recent times. It makes no sense to cite a marathon you ran in 1979 +-3 as protecting you from anything in 2004.
Should have made allowance that it was a Kerry statement in an election.