Lance Armstrong to Run Boston Marathon
Boston Daily is a huge fan of the Boston Marathon. There’s nothing sweeter than an April day spent on a friend’s stoop along the marathon route, drinking out of plastic cups with the Sox game on the radio as you wait for the marathoners to speed by. While we love the silly costumes and marriage proposals scrawled across somebody’s bloody chest, we’ve noticed something was missing from our beloved race.
Star power.
But all that’s about to change. This year, the Boston Marathon is all about famous people.
Earlier this month, rumors were flying that Katie Holmes would run this year’s marathon. Holmes has since denied it, but she completed most of the New York Marathon undetected last year so we will keep the hope alive.
But we do know that noted cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong will run in this year’s Boston Marathon. Armstrong qualified for the race with a 2:46:43 finish in the New York Marathon, but will still run to collect donations for his foundation. We’ll be sure to raise our plastic cup to the seven-time Tour de France champion as he blows by our perch along the route.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Famous people??? The Boston Marathon is about famous people??? Not this year or any other year is the Boston Marathon about famous people!!! The Boston Marathon is more about obscure people running in the grandaddy of all races who have paid the price of training and sacrifice to earn the right to run in it. Pplease don’t make this about famous people…Yeeesh!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I am excited to know that I will be running the same route as Lance Armstrong and other famous people. I also am a Cancer Surviror and would love to meet lance Armstrong. He has been an inspiration. I agree many of us just common people have put in many hours and hard work to be in the Boston Marathon. Give us credit! Tina