certainly offers a fast course. So fast, in fact, that it's ineligible for world record attempts as much of the first quarter is downhill, and so the elites' route has a different, flatter beginning. The mass race starts at the southern end of the 25 de
in pulling up at a spot that has crushed the dreams of far better runners than me.But the fact remains: my attempt to record a personal best at the 2011 Boston Marathon, the world's oldest annual 26.2-miler, has come undone five miles from the finish. Had two
