![]() Oh, friends, fans of Boston Marathons are a different lot, and the tough, tough athletes who compete well, year in and year out, on the streets from Hopkinton to Boston, reaching the finish line at the Charlesmark Hotel, are treasured.ĭes Linden has come to Boston to compete on Monday, April 17, 2023. Des Linden was two seconds behind the winner. A charge would happen, Des would respond, and so on. The 2011 Boston race was extraordinary, as Liden and her competitors took the pace down to almost unsurvivable. ![]() Her gutty races, particularly in Boston, where in 2011, she placed second in 2:22:38, have gained her respect among her elite competitors, fans, and most importantly, Boston fans. ![]() The love and affection shown for Des Linden did not appear overnight. Kawauchi ran 2:15.54, and Linden ran 2:39.54, making her the first American woman to win Boston in the 2000s and the first American to win since Lisa Larsen Rainsberger won Boston in 1985. On that day, two of the sport’s strongest athletes, Yuki Kawauchi and Des Linden, won the elite divisions of the Boston Marathon. The Boston Marathon had rain, wind, and 39 degrees temperatures on April 16, 2018. ![]() She knows that one must respect Mother Nature if one is going to train each day during the monstrous cold ![]()
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