Friday, April 28, 2023

Tallahassee athletes in the 2023 Boston Marathon

2023 BAA Marathon SealYou can be a very good marathoner while not being a very good Boston Marathoner.


My favorite marathon runner of the 1930s, Pat Dengis, is an example. Dengis won three AAU National Championship Marathons and the Pan American Marathon, but never took laurels at Boston. Maybe Dengis was unlucky. Or maybe Boston's unique collection of hills, turns, potholes, and contrary weather didn't suit the style of that Baltimore athlete.


We may have seen that play out again at the 2023 Boston Marathon. After the press and fans spent the days and weeks leading up to the race talking about a certain Very Good Marathoner, on Patriot's Day it was a very good Boston Marathoner who prevailed--defending champ Evans Chebet of Kenya. Chebet made it two in a row, throwing down a winning 2:05:54, almost a minute faster than his 2022 mark. On the women's side, Kenyan Hellen Obiri proved to be the best Boston Marathoner, running 2:21:38.


More than a few Tallahassee athletes made the trip to Massachusetts to do the annual run from Hopkinton to Boston. It is, after all, the only way to learn how good a Boston Marathoner you are. Of those Capital City athletes, the fastest was master runner Charlie Johnson, who posted a 2:49:57 and placed 1,777th. Master runner Amy Hines led the women in the Tallahassee contingent, running 3:11:03--good for 6,645th overall and 792nd in the women's standings.


In all, 21 Tallahasseeans finished the 2023 Boston Marathon, up from 16 in 2022. Here are those 2023 finishers:


Tallahassee finishers in the 2023 Boston Marathon, 17 April 2023
PlaceTimeAthletesexageM/F PlaceDiv Place
17772:49:57Charlie JohnsonM431698211
27552:55:15Mickey MooreM53262068
52833:05:10Jason GrahamM434829935
59623:08:06Raymond ReavisM4253551066
66453:11:03Amy HinesF42792105
77693:15:09Michael NiezgodaM3465923571
103803:24:06Jack McDermottM548077896
114993:27:41Carrie MurphyF51285371
117293:28:21Deanna McVayF402972484
120343:29:18Gabriella PassidomoF3131452207
122133:29:53Melanie LeitmanF3932402258
122383:29:57Jillian HeddaeusF403257544
133373:34:03Fanxiu ZhuM5494231206
152503:41:20Alison ThummF455049669
178673:52:29Mary Fran RoweF426565567
181813:54:07Thomas MurphyM53114081507
196554:02:23Judy AlexanderF617588157
200734:05:30Birgit Maier-KatkinF607839185
203124:07:25Tsige TadesseF557972455
217464:19:15Felton WrightM6512963381
256995:23:56Nancy PetersF6410908501


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