Today, let's look at what so many people had gathered to do and celebrate on 4/15/13: the Boston Marathon.
The Boston Marathon is held very year on the third Monday of April, when Patriots' Day is celebrated. Patriots' Day commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
The Boston Marathon, the world's oldest annual marathon was inspired by the success of the marathon event in the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first Olympics of the modern era.
A marathon is a distance run that commemorates the possibly-fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens. He is said to have run the distance without stopping, arrived at the Athenean legislative assembly, uttered, "We won," (in Greek, of course), and then collapsed. The actual distance he is said to have run was disputed, depending on the route hemay have taken. The distance, 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards), was standardized after the first few Olympics marathons, which were about 40km (25 mi).
BTW: John J. McDermott of New York won the first Boston Marathon on April 19, 1897 with a time of 2:55:10. You knew I'd look that up, eh!
A lot of hard work and training goes into any marathon. What that coward or those cowards did to Boston was just rotten. For that very reason, we need to keep our runners running. Don't let the cowards win: we will always outnumber them.
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