What type of press are Linden and Kawauchi getting in your town? Any big-time pub?

The NYPost website had a "BREAKING" banner across the top and a little article about it front and center right after it happened and for (at least) a couple hours later

NYPost is real news wrote:

The NYPost website had a "BREAKING" banner across the top and a little article about it front and center right after it happened and for (at least) a couple hours later

Specifically for Des, not Yuki. American Woman wins boston for the first time...

Fortunately, nothing here. We’re more excited about the NFL draft, NBA playoffs and baseball.

The WaPo has an article and live blog of sorts. It was ok until I clicked on the comments. God, I hate the WaPo comments.

No lie on the Denver Post website. The only Boston story is this

“Lakewood woman conquers rain, coldest Boston Marathon in 3 decades rocking her Red Rocks poncho”

Yuge story here. On all of the local news channels. Can’t get away from it.

Listed as one of the main stories on the Indy Star online sports page. "American woman Makes Boston Marathon History." Didn't check any of the TV stations.

https://www.indystar.com/sports/

CBC Canada has this .......

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/trackandfield/kamauchi-linden-boston-marathon-winners-1.4621664

Deadspin:

https://deadspin.com/the-boston-marathon-had-two-shocking-winners-1825293545

Detroit 760 am reported that Linden won but then had to ruin the report by bringing up the bombing of 5 years ago. I guess they don't think the race itself is important enough.

And they never mentioned Kawauchi.

Desi is from Chula Vista so It's all over San Diego TV stations. When is she coming home? I'd like to meet her at the airport. SAN? SNA? ONT? LAX? I'll be there with my krew.

It's all over the national news. Analysis, interviews, comparisons of his numerous marathons, etc.

We are watching NHK.

To give you an example of how little people know I met with several people tonight that believed that Des Linden won the entire race by also beating all of the men.

The local news channel announced that it was the coldest Marathon in 30 years I instead of saying it was the coldest Boston Marathon in that period of time.

I feel like the average person knows more about the sport of Curling than distance running.

Yuki is the top story wrote:

It's all over the national news. Analysis, interviews, comparisons of his numerous marathons, etc.

We are watching NHK.

LetsRun.com wrote:

Let's hope it at least shows up on SportsCenter.

Does it show up on your local news? What about your local paper. Let us know.

There was a long article in the local paper about the Boston Marathon.

It turns out that today's Boston Marathon was "something special."

The female human runners from the USA placed 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th today at the Boston Marathon.

It turns out that a lot of these female human runners are "absolutely unknown" or "underdog" runners...who destroyed the "professional" runners today at the Boston Marathon.

An American woman had not won the Boston Marathon in the professional era but that all changed at the 122nd Boston Marathon as Linden came from behind to win the race in 2:39:54 and become the first American women’s champ since 1985. Lisa Rainsberger — nee Larsen Weidenbachwon in 1985;

It turns out that I used to race and get consistently destroyed by Lisa Weidenbach back in Seattle, Washington in 1985...when she won the Boston Marathon...33 years ago.

The vibration at the race headquarters at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in the hours after the race, it was one of incredulity. Nobody we talked to — agents, coaches, other journalists, even the athletes — seemed to know what to make of the race. Many of the top finishers had no idea what place they were in until the final miles. Men’s champ Yuki Kawauchi only knew that he won because he was paying attention in the pre-race technical meeting — race organizers told the elite athletes that if they were winning the race, they would be directed to finish on the right for the cameras. And sure enough, that’s what happened when he approached the finish on Boylston Street.

-Of the 16 African runners in the men’s and women’s elite fields, just three finished the race: Edna Kiplagat was 9th in the women’s race, Geoffrey Kirui was 2nd in the men’s race, and Stephen Sambu was 14th in the men’s race.

All six Ethiopians dropped out.

It was so brutal that even Linden admitted she thought very early in the race she’d end up a DNF (did not finish). Asked after the race on NBCSN why she slowed down and waited for Shalane Flanagan when Flanagan briefly left the course to use a portable toilet in the 12th mile, Linden said, “Honestly at mile 2-3-4, I didn’t feel like I was even going to make it to the finish line and I told her during the race, ‘If there is anything I can do help you out, let me know as I might just drop out.’ When you work together, you never know what is going to happen. Helping her helped me and I kind of got my legs back from there.”

2nd Sarah Sellers 2:44:04 — 26-year-old Utah native who ran collegiately at Weber State (as Sarah Callister) and graduated in 2013. Track PRs of 16:00/32:51. Now works as a nurse in Tucson, AZ...and just won $75,000 by placing 2nd at the Boston Marathon...Oh well.

3rd Krista Duchene 2:44:20 — 41-YEARS-OLD mother of THREE was 35th in the 2016 Olympic marathoner. Played hockey in college. Currently trains with Speed River Track Club in Guelph, CANADA. It turns out that Ms. Duchene also won

4th Rachel Hyland 2:44:29 — From Andover, MA, and ran collegiately at DIII Williams. Ran 2:41 to finish 20th at the 2017 Berlin Marathon. 45th at the 2016 Olympic Trials.

5th Jessica Chichester 2:45:23 — Nurse practitioner lives in New York City who ran a PR of 1:18:15 at the NYC Half. She is coached by a very famous coach...which is her brother... Tim Chichester.

It also turns out that Jessica Chi-chester loves horrible weather. Oh well.

Ms. Chichester actually started in the mass race — because she did not have an "elite" bib — but she still ran faster than all but four professional runners...including Shalane Flanagan and Molly Huddle.

As if running Boston in horrible conditions wasn’t bad enough, Ms. Huddle began feeling pain in her tooth on Thursday... and Ms. Huddle (Irish female human) will have to have a root canal tomorrow.

“This week SUCKS SO BAD!,”... Ms. Molly Huddle (Irish) said. OK Ms. Huddle.

...(Oh well. It's not a big surprise.)

A BAA representative said that... even though there is a written rule... stating that prize-money recipients must start with the elite field...that rule has now been reevaluated in Ms. Chichester’s case... because of the specific race conditions which we had

today...and Ms. Chi-Chester will now go home all soggy and wet... with a prize of $15,000.

...(Oh well. It's not a big surprise.)

Ms. Shalane Flanagan ( female "professional runner") was the American woman trailblazer in New York and today it was Des Linden’s turn to have the spotlight. That might have been hard to foresee early in the race, around mile 6, when Flanagan said Linden turned to her and said, “Hey it’s not going to be my day.... I think I’m going to drop out.”

Ms. Flanagan said she was so shocked she put her arm on Des and asked ‘Are you ok?’ thinking Des must have a severe injury. Des replied, “No no I’m fine (injury wise). If there is anything I can do to help let me know.”

So when Ms. Flanagan (Irish female human "professional runner")... had to go into a porta-pottee to "pee"... later in the race, and they were still running slow, she asked Desi... if she thought it was a good idea to leave the course and take care of business...instead of doing it on the run.

It turns out that Desi told her to go ahead... and waited a bit for Ms. Flanagan to catch up. Then when Desi dropped behind Ms. Flanagan soon after, Ms. Flanagan thought she might be dropping out....but soon Desi was going back by Ms. Flanagan... and then heading after race leader Daska.

Ms. Flanagan, who still had the "mindset" (WTF are you talking about Shalane???!!!)...that Desi was about to drop out...thought that maybe Desi was being a “sacrificial lamb”... to bridge the gap... for fellow American Molly Huddle (Irish human female "professional runner.")

But the next thing she knew... Desi was pulling away on her own.

“I thought man she’s doing a lot of good work here. This is AMAZING. And then I saw her just keep going. I think that momentum of helping someone else and maybe not investing so much in how she’s feeling maybe that gave her that little lift she needed. I’ve always said this. Desi is built for this course. It’s pretty incredible she won,” said Flanagan.

“I am really happy for Desi. She went from TALKING ABOUT DROPPING OUT... to motoring TO THE WIN.”

As for Ms. Flanagan’s (human female "professional runner") own race she said, “That was really hard. I’m the most sore I’ve ever been for 6:30 mile pace. I’m really bummed right now. I realized 6 miles in I was going to be really cold. My teeth were already starting to chatter.”

Ms. Flanagan said she was suffering so much later in the race she started wondering... if she was actually winning the race... (WTF Shalane???)... as the fans... were really cheering for her.

“At one point I was so delirious I thought ‘Am I winning’? I wasn’t sure who was dropping out,” she said. (O'Boy... Ms. Shalane Flanagan.)

“It was a very unsatisfying race. I trained three months really hard to have a really great showing."

"I don’t know what to think about it. It was all I had, but a very unsatisfying feeling,” she added... noting she thought she was in PR shape.

Ms. Flanagan wasn’t sure what is next for her. When asked what motivated her more going to defend her NYC title or chasing a fast time in a fast marathoner, she said, “Neither actually. The only thing that really motivates me now is to try and train and help the other two women my Bowerman track team (World Championship bronze medallist Amy Cragg and Olympic triathlon champ Gwen Jorgensen) make the next Olympic team. I may take a little break and assess what I want to do next...because the training is hard.”

“Early on in the race I was feeling horrible, and I nudged her (Shalane Flanagan) and said “I might drop out. There’s a good chance I’m going to drop out today. If you need something… let me know,” said Linden at the post-race press conference.

Linden then shifted her focus... to helping her fellow Americans.

When Shalane Flanagan ... had to take a potty break, Linden slowed down to offer encouragement.

Then when Mamitu Daska broke away from the women’s pack, Linden went to the front of the chase pack to help the other main American contender Molly Huddle.

“I thought... Well I should probably help Molly reconnect to the leaders. And then I looked back and I was in 3rd (place) and I thought... ‘I probably shouldn’t drop out now,’” ...Linden said... to laughter... at the post-race press conference.

“Honestly I felt miserable, but sometimes when you pick it up... and forget about how you’re feeling and just engage for a little bit... you can turn everything around,” she said.

Soon she did turn it around, as... although she was not running that fast...she was running faster than everyone else... and leading the Boston Marathon.

Fear took over for Linden...as she still didn’t expect to win.

“I was running totally afraid. I knew the conditions were bad but I was running really slow and I thought ‘I’m going to get chewed up’.”

One thing Linden never did was look back. She tried to gauge her lead by the reaction of the crowd. She had no idea her lead swelled to a couple of minutes, but said that was a good thing.

“I definitely would have slowed down (if I knew I had a big lead). I felt awful. I was (thinking) ‘this is going to be embarrassing (when I get caught).’ I was just running as hard as I could. If I had known I had that gap, for sure I would have slowed down and probably have been caught.”

While hardly anyone expected Linden or Kawauchi to triumph in Boston, they both had experience racing in terrible weather and it was in each other’s home countries. Kawauchi had won a marathon New Year’s Eve in Massachusetts in 1 degree temps (-13C) and Linden had run a 10k in miserable weather in Japan. Linden thought at the time she couldn’t run a step further in such conditions.

She was glad she did on Monday in Boston.

“This is hands down the biggest day in my running career and if it hadn’t been difficult I don’t think it would mean as much.

"I was glad we were able to put on a show and I hope people enjoyed it.”

Linden on what she was thinking during national anthem: “I was thinking...it was kind of hilarious how it worked out. Even when I got into the lead I thought... this is going to go horribly wrong.

I’m going to blow up."

"When you think you’re going to drop out you don’t do the right things. I know I’m slowing down a ton right now.

"When am I going to get chewed up and spit out the back and then I can drop out…"

On the support of the BAA and John Hancock over the years: “In 2007 (her first Boston), no one would have believed... I would be sitting here... but the BAA treated us like rock stars. That made me want to be a marathoner."

"Along the way we have moments... where I didn’t know if I would come back from the fracture of my femur.”

Ms. Linden, who was born in California, said her desire to run the course in Boston was the reason she started running marathons.

Desiree Linden went to Arizona State University.

It turns out that her roommate at Arizona State University...was Amy Hastings.

Amy Hastings then married Alistair Cragg in 2014.

It turns out that Alistair Cragg is the national record holder for Ireland in the 5000m...with a time of 13:03...which is just a coincidence:

It also turns out that Ms. Desi Linden also has a golden retriever named... BOSTON, and had another dog named Miles... who died last year.

“If it hadn’t been difficult,” Linden said... “it probably wouldn’t mean as much.”

(Desiree Linden also became the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon... in 33 years...which is just a coincidence.)

Yuki Kawauchi showed no fear alongside his trademark toughness. He ran the first (downhill) mile in 4:37, which is 2:01:02 marathon pace, to open up an immediate gap. Though the pack caught up to him by mile 4, Kawauchi would attack again and again throughout the race, seemingly unaffected by the conditions (unlike most of the elites, Kawauchi wore no jacket, though he did sport arm warmers and gloves for the duration of the race).

Yuki Kawauchi is not a full-time 'professional' marathon runner. He has a job working as an administrator at a high school in Saitama Prefecture.

His victory on Monday was his fourth in four marathons in 2018.

He welcomed the cold and rainy weather, even calling it “instrumental” to his win. “If they had been regular conditions, it might have been a little bit tougher to beat some of the competition,” he said through a translator.

Kawauchi’s early splits were so fast for the day – and the corresponding women’s race splits so slow – that NBCSN broadcaster Craig Masback refused to read them on air as to him they didn’t make sense (the leaders hit 10k on 2:07 pace) and he thought... something was off with the timing mats.

When asked on the international television broadcast by reporter Scott Wahle how he was able to pull off such a big comeback, Kawauchi said through his agent/interpretor Brett Larner:

“I never gave up. I knew he was up there. I could see him and I just ran my own race. I ran the way that I run best and I ran him down.”

Then Wahle said, “In awful conditions too” and Kawauchi responded with an all-time classic line:

"For me, these were the best conditions possible.”

“Every time I run, it’s with the mindset that if I die at this race...it’s OK.”

On being the first Japanese winner in 31 years: Kawua-chi noted that Toshihiko Seko last won Boston in 1987... which was the year he was born:

“I couldn’t help but feel the hand of fate in this."

Oh well.

It's not a big surprise.

Here in Moldova we are just reporting on the recent potato crop and local government corruption. There was a side-piece on tractors. That's it.

I was doing some shopping in my local mall, with my grandchildren, at the time the winners would have been crossing the line. Dance Hall Days was playing across the mall, and then it suddenly changed to the Japanese national anthem. We thought it was some kind of prank(in a way you could say that). The owner is known to be a little eccentric. After it finished there was an announcement of Yuki's win. It was crazy seeing everyone stop their business to hear what was going on. For a few minutes the place was frozen in time. We decided to go to the sushi stand, because the owner(Oklahoma born, but with a Japanese mother) was giving out free samples as a way of celebrating.

I live in Boston. As you might imagine, it's dominating the front page of every newspaper. The Globe even a nice story about our top-placing local runner Rachel Hyland.