Official 2025 Boston Marathon Thread

CJ will run 2:09:37 or 2:10:59...or very close to it.

If the pace is even remotely close to honest, Mantz breaks 2:08 (2:07:14). The entire race the announcer keeps stating "he looks like he's go to drop a deuce"

Clayton Young runs 2:08:13.

The winner. Some guy who was not born in the USA

Side note: Salazar comes out of the woods, 43 years after his victory, and wins the Master's Race in 2:11:11 but is not seen till the last 1/4 mile of the race, is disqualified, but vehemently files a protest. A final decision won't be decided for years.

Did John Korir fall? Lost his front bib and was looking at his hand like he'd scraped it. Hopefully he's all good

My dark horse here would be Alphonce Simbu, good championships racer. Somehow ran 2:04 in Valencia 1 week after a 2:17 marathon win in Nigeria for the African Military Games. does mean this is his 4th marathon in less than a year

EDIT: JOHN KORIR DID FALL

I use the daddy live app on Kodi to see the stream on tnt4

I didn't realize this is Des Linden's last professional race.

Mantz out front with some other white guy in red singlet beside him.

Women are off

Women are off, seems like a relatively conservative pace, as it usually is early

Gotta think that the stream quality would get better year-to-year but somehow it gets worse.

Pat Tiernan in front! With Mantz and Young

She only announced it this morning.

Why do the Americans always insist on leading the race when the Kenyans are just sitting back licking their chops haven't they learned anything over the years.

How are the puma crew looking?

At mile 3 the podium is all USA!

Connor and Clayton will break the tape holding hands

Same with the women. Top 7 are all USA

14:20-23 for the mens leaders, 21 in the pack, but breaking up more as we speak

I always assumed it's partly to give coverage to their sponsors. It's not like they don't know how to pace marathons.

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14:20 for the first 5k, which is very quick with Conner Mantz leading the way (2:00:57 pace).

Of course, the first 5k is more than 200 feet downhill so you can get rolling if you want to.