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 | ||||||
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Place | Time | Athlete | sex | age | M/F Place | Div Place |
1777 | 2:49:57 | Charlie Johnson | M | 43 | 1698 | 211 |
2755 | 2:55:15 | Mickey Moore | M | 53 | 2620 | 68 |
5283 | 3:05:10 | Jason Graham | M | 43 | 4829 | 935 |
5962 | 3:08:06 | Raymond Reavis | M | 42 | 5355 | 1066 |
6645 | 3:11:03 | Amy Hines | F | 42 | 792 | 105 |
7769 | 3:15:09 | Michael Niezgoda | M | 34 | 6592 | 3571 |
10380 | 3:24:06 | Jack McDermott | M | 54 | 8077 | 896 |
11499 | 3:27:41 | Carrie Murphy | F | 51 | 2853 | 71 |
11729 | 3:28:21 | Deanna McVay | F | 40 | 2972 | 484 |
12034 | 3:29:18 | Gabriella Passidomo | F | 31 | 3145 | 2207 |
12213 | 3:29:53 | Melanie Leitman | F | 39 | 3240 | 2258 |
12238 | 3:29:57 | Jillian Heddaeus | F | 40 | 3257 | 544 |
13337 | 3:34:03 | Fanxiu Zhu | M | 54 | 9423 | 1206 |
15250 | 3:41:20 | Alison Thumm | F | 45 | 5049 | 669 |
17867 | 3:52:29 | Mary Fran Rowe | F | 42 | 6565 | 567 |
18181 | 3:54:07 | Thomas Murphy | M | 53 | 11408 | 1507 |
19655 | 4:02:23 | Judy Alexander | F | 61 | 7588 | 157 |
20073 | 4:05:30 | Birgit Maier-Katkin | F | 60 | 7839 | 185 |
20312 | 4:07:25 | Tsige Tadesse | F | 55 | 7972 | 455 |
21746 | 4:19:15 | Felton Wright | M | 65 | 12963 | 381 |
25699 | 5:23:56 | Nancy Peters | F | 64 | 10908 | 501 |
Links
- Tallahassee finishers at the 2023 Boston Marathon (spreadsheet)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQIFdnbuaaBKD9p73045RFmr8mQxbpRreU5jZGoh_K-Lpp5rpGkNLCPbC0nSV31AqYB8vDPeDFYpdfQ/pubhtml
- “Tallahassee's top finishers at the Boston Marathon during the 21st century (2000-2018)”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2022/04/baa-marathon-2022.html
- 2022 story, “Tallahassee athletes in the 2022 Boston Marathon”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/04/baa-marathon-2016.html
- 2016 story, “2016 Boston Marathon finishers from the Trouble Afoot! region”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/04/baa-marathon-2016.html
- 2015 story, “The athletes of Apalachee at the 2015 Boston Marathon”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/04/baa-marathon-2015.html
- 2013 story, “Tallahassee runs for Boston”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-strong-2013.html
- 2010 story, “The pilgrimage from Hopkinton”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/04/pilgrimage-from-hopkinton.html
- “Kent Mills was Florida State's Marathon Man at Boston in 1960”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2020/04/kent-mills-marathon.html
- Find marathons and shorter races closer to Tallahassee on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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