Boston Marathon winner John Korir, of Kenya, kisses the trophy while celebrating after the race, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Boston. The Boston Marathon is almost always memorable, and Monday’s race was no exception. Records were broken, and three American men broke into the top 10, two of them former BYU runners. But the stories of inspiration and achievement go deeper than the finishing times and titles. From the starting line to the finish line, the race was filled with moments of human grit and connection. John Korir of Kenya...

One couple headed toward their happily ever after on Boston Marathon Monday. Andrew Becker, a Massachusetts General Hospital marathon team member and anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, made a pitstop to propose to his girlfriend Julia Frederick just before crossing the Boston Marathon finish line. Becker chose the race to mark both a personal milestone and his connection to Boston, running in honor of the new life he’s built in Boston, and to represent the Mass General Brigham system he serves, Mass. General Brigham said. See the couple’s happy...

There is no such thing as a perfect Boston Marathon. Clear skies, a cool breeze. History celebrated, history made. The clanging cowbells, the hollering college kids, and the boisterous crowds at their loudest and proudest. It was a day to make the most of their meteorological good luck (temperatures hit the low 60s) for the estimated more than half million who cheered the 30,000 runners on, at the 129th Boston Marathon. It was a day of firsts. Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi obliterated the record for fastest time among the women’s elite...

Still others will trek to Fenway, where the Red Sox play a day game against the White Sox, with first pitch at 11:10 a.m. And so far, the forecast shows Monday looking like a great spring day with mostly sunny skies. The average high in Boston for April 21 is 59 degrees, and it’s looking like we’ll end up somewhere between 55 and 60 Monday afternoon, with a cooler-than-average start to the day — pretty ideal running temperatures for the race. After a more seasonal and breezy Easter Sunday with...

There are shirts and medals for runners, jackets for volunteers, goodie bags upon completion. There is water to be consumed en route and synthetic gels for runners seeking another burst of energy. Except when it comes to gathering 40,000 people to run together, in the same place, there’s nothing simple about it. Part of the beauty of running is its simplicity. You need a road, a will to move, and that’s about it. Then there are the runners themselves — so many runners, from so many places — traveling from...

Sporting a bright yellow “End Alz” jersey, a white baseball cap and blue-green neck warmer, Ralph Carmona bounced up and down on his wiry legs, warming up for a run on a sunny but brisk morning in Portland. As he ran uphill onto the Eastern Promenade, Casco Bay stretched out to his left, shimmering in the sun. The 6-mile training run was a short jaunt for the 74-year-old Carmona, who qualified for the Boston Marathon for the first time this year and will be one of thousands to run the...

The BAA heralded its elite field, which will include 21 men with sub-2-hour-9-minute times and 17 women who have run under 2:23. “Defending a win is never easy, and to win the Boston Marathon twice in a row was hard, but I am happy to have done it,” Obiri said in a release from the Boston Athletic Association. “On race day I will again push for the win and hope to make it three in a row.” The reigning women’s and men’s Boston Marathon champions will return to the Hopkinton...

A man who identifies as “transgender” has qualified to race in the female division for the 2025 Boston Marathon. According to Outkick, a trans-identified male who goes by the name Riya Young Suising will compete in the women’s division this April. Suising was reportedly Robert Chien Hwa Young and is 57 years old. Reportedly, Suising announced his acceptance into the race with a Facebook post, where he wrote, "Yay! 15th Boston next April, and I barely made it in this time." The Boston Marathon does offer a “non-binary” category for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. It means just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who fatally...