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2014 Boston Marathon Men's winner Meb Keflezighi of San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)by Chris Caesar, Boston.com







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Hilary Sargent 4/18/2014 7:13:56 PMBoston.com is providing complete, wire-to-wire coverage of the 2014 Boston Marathon on Monday. Check back here for live reports from the route, links to Boston.com stories and plenty of photos and videos.
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Lisa Gilmore 4/21/2014 10:46:01 AM
Forgot my gloves but made it on the bus! That is probably the hardest part, I'm guessing.
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by Robert Shaw via twitter 4/21/2014 10:52:35 AM
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by Sheila Rice via twitter 4/21/2014 10:55:06 AM
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by wbz via twitter 4/21/2014 11:05:52 AM
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Jon Palmer 4/21/2014 11:07:07 AMFor race updates beginning at 8:30 a.m., go HERE: live.boston.com
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by Chad Finn via twitter 4/21/2014 11:11:55 AMGood luck to all of the runners today. Privileged to cover today's race and look forward to seeing so many of you at the finish line.
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Boston.com 4/21/2014 11:15:43 AMWhen Does The Boston Marathon Start? ow.ly
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Lara Salahi, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:33:00 PMNeed to get to Wellesley today? Check road closures... detours are a marathon in itself.... #stuck
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Teresa Hanafin 4/21/2014 12:35:00 PMIf you yell "Go, Jennifer" to any of the 16,081 women officially running today, you might hit the mark: There are 396 of them, the most common women’s name on the course. They’re joined by 238 Sarahs, 235 Lisas, and 203 Elizabeths.
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Teresa Hanafin 4/21/2014 12:35:04 PMBy the way, the most common men’s names list reads like the Bible: David, John, James, Mark, Daniel, Matthew, and Paul are all in the Top 10.
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:35:49 PMThis year's list of marathon entries reads like a cross between the London and Dublin phone directories. There are 207 Smiths, 146 Johnsons, 110 Browns, 110 Millers, 106 Joneses, and more than 60 Davises, Taylors, Whites, Martins, Campbells, Sullivans, Murphys, and Andersons. The most popular non-English, non-Irish name is Kim, with 51, followed by Gonzalez, with 35. The field includes three runners named Michael Kennedy, and three named Michael J. Sullivan.
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by Paula Ebben via twitter 4/21/2014 12:35:55 PM
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by Morgan Sturdivant via twitter 4/21/2014 12:36:14 PM
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:37:02 PMOne of the last entries added to the field is well known to Boston sports fans. Doug Flutie tweeted Saturday that he "woke up today and decided to run the Boston Marathon." The former Boston College and New England Patriots star, and Heisman Trophy winner, will run in support of the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.The course passes through his hometown of Natick for four miles late in the first half of the race. Flutie, now 51, lives in Melbourne Beach, Fla., and will be wearing bib 25,500.
Sooo...woke up today & decided to run the @bostonmarathon just picked up my number & heading to the sox game #yup pic.twitter.com/TsSi4weMHb
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by Paula Ebben via twitter 4/21/2014 12:38:28 PM
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:39:03 PMThis year's field of slightly more than 35,600 entries is the second biggest ever, surpassed only by the 100th running in 1996, which had 38,708. It was supersized to make good on the BAA's promise that runners who were unable to finish last year because of the terror attacks could run again this year, whether they qualified or not. In all, a special invitation was extended to 5,633 official entrants who reached the halfway mark in Wellesley but were unable to cross the finish line before the race was stopped. Some 4,500 of them choose to return.
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:39:15 PMThe BAA also issued special invitations to the non-runners who were most affected by the tragedy, including victims and their families, and first responders. The Watertown Police Department, for example, is sending a team of 12 officers, including Chief Edward Deveau.
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:39:23 PMA further 450 slots were offered as prizes in an essay contest. The winners were the writers who could best explain why running Boston was important to them. Race officials say the increase in field size is a one-year thing. Beginning next year the marathon will return to the approximately 27,000-runner level it had been at since 2008.
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by Boston Fire Dept. via twitter 4/21/2014 12:40:01 PMThere are at least 50 Boston firefighters running this year.
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by Wellesley Police via twitter 4/21/2014 12:41:01 PMROADS ARE NOW CLOSED IN WELLESLEY ON THE BOSTON MARATHON ROUTE tinyurl.com/kj4z8o5
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:41:34 PMIt will take more than two hours for the entire field of 36,000 plus to cross the starting line. The last official runners are expected to begin the 26.2 mile race in Hopkinton only minutes before the women's winner crosses the finish line in Boston.
It would be physically impossible for all the runners to start at the same time, given the narrowness of the streets in Hopkinton, but runners are not penalized for being at the back of the pack. The BAA uses an electronic timing chip that official runners must wear on the back of their bibs to calculate "net" time for each runner -- the difference between when the chip records them crossing the start line, and when it records them crossing the finish line.
Digital clocks displaying elapsed time from the 10 a.m. official start are located at every mile and five-kilometer marker, and times for each runner are recorded at each checkpoint along the way, to make sure no one jumps in the race near the finish line, as Rosie Ruiz famously did in 1980.
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by City of Boston via twitter 4/21/2014 12:42:20 PMText BOSTON to 69050 to report #bostonmarathon suspicious activity, call 911 for emergencies #marathonsmart ow.ly/vMamj
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by Steve Safran via twitter 4/21/2014 12:42:24 PM
Gov Deval Patrick will be signaling the start of the race for the mobility-impaired. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlvwgXdIgAARQ6l.jpg
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Meghan Colloton, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:42:42 PM
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by BogsWBZ via twitter 4/21/2014 12:43:27 PM
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:43:28 PMHydration is key when you're running 26.2 miles, and the BAA has set up stations roughly once every mile along the course where runners can partake of the "official fluids" of the Boston Marathon -- Poland Spring water and Gatorade Endurance Formula (lemon/lime flavor).
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by Laurel J. Sweet via twitter 4/21/2014 12:44:20 PMThis year's grand marshal is the iconic Bill Rodgers.#BostonMarathon #BostonStrong
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by Steve Safran via twitter 4/21/2014 12:44:58 PM
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by Chelsea Rice, Boston.com via twitter 4/21/2014 12:45:23 PM
Volunteers setting up finish line services #BostonMarathon http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlvxBayCQAAk03j.jpg
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by Wellesley Police via twitter 4/21/2014 12:45:26 PM
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by Steve Safran via twitter 4/21/2014 12:45:48 PM
At 8:45 AM a moment of silence was observed at the starting line of the Marathon. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlvxSJGIQAAT6v7.jpg
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by Chelsea Rice, Boston.com via twitter 4/21/2014 12:46:42 PM
Pears, bananas, flavored waters getting packed for runners at the finish line #BostonMarathon http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlvxfdYCcAIERXt.jpg
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:47:40 PMThe Boston Marathon starts on Main Street in Hopkinton, two thirds of the way between Boston and Worcester, and follows Route 135 for more than 13 miles through Ashland, Framingham, and Natick to where it joins Route 16 in Wellesley. It continues along Route 16 through Newton Lower Falls, turning right at the red-brick fire station onto Commonwealth Avenue.
From there runners follow Commonwealth Avenue through the Newton hills, bearing right at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir onto Chestnut Hill Avenue to Cleveland Circle. The route then turns left onto Beacon Street in Brookline, and enters Boston with about two miles remaining.
Runners continue through Kenmore Square, near Fenway Park, and under Massachusetts Avenue. They turn right onto Hereford Street, then left onto Boylston Street for the sprint to the finish alongside the Boston Public Library, near Copley Square. The official distance is 26 miles, 385 yards, or 42.195 kilometers. -
by Boston Marathon via twitter 4/21/2014 12:47:58 PMA moment of silence is being observed for the victims of the bombings and the two firefighters that made the... fb.me/313Ft94B6
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by Joe Giza via twitter 4/21/2014 12:48:24 PM
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by Pam Cross via twitter 4/21/2014 12:49:10 PM
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:50:06 PMThe first of today's many starts has just taken place in Hopkinton. The group of mobility-impaired runners is off and on their way to Boston after the official starter, Gov. Deval Patrick, waved his hand. There are about 20 mobility impaired entrants, many of whom are running with guides. Their appearance will be the first indication for spectators lining the course that today's events have begun.
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Hilary Sargent 4/21/2014 12:50:15 PMAnd they're off!
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by Chelsea Rice, Boston.com via twitter 4/21/2014 12:50:56 PM
Security trucks of all kinds. Boston's finest out in full force. #BostonMarathon http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlvydTnCEAA_llI.jpg
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by Steve Safran via twitter 4/21/2014 12:51:07 PMThe mobility – impaired runners left Hopkinton at 8:50 AM.
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:52:08 PMThis year's field includes runners from all 50 US states and all the Canadian provinces and territories except Nunavut. As expected, Massachusetts leads with 8,088 entries, or 23 percent of the field. California is next, with 2,625 entries, followed by New York (1,775), Texas (1,142), Pennsylvania (1,132), and Illinois (1,027). The mad-for-running Canadian province of Ontario has 1,175 entries.
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by Chelsea Rice, Boston.com via twitter 4/21/2014 12:52:55 PMLooking for a good spot? Right after the finish line, outside Copley station still pretty open #BostonMarathon
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by RadioBDC via twitter 4/21/2014 12:52:55 PM
Difficult to walk by and not take a photograph. Lots of folks doing so. Emotion is palpable. instagram.com
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Eric Bauer, Boston.com 4/21/2014 12:53:22 PMBoston has 1,914 runners in today's field, more than any other city. That's to be expected. It is, after all, Boston's marathon. Second place New York City has 772, followed by Chicago at 346. Cambridge, Mass., is fourth at 323, and Toronto fifth at 266. London sent 97 runners, most of any city outside of North America, followed by Tokyo, Seoul, and Dublin.