Boston Marathon: Kenya’s W. Korir, Cherop Brave Heat to Win

Nearly 26 miles behind them, only a few blocks to the last turn, of the Boston Marathon runner-up abandoned Convention, and then the far side of Boylston Street width.
Forget that the shortest distance to the end, this is the shade of a tree.
Korir of Kenya Wesley said: “This is hot, you do not know,” post-lasting high-temperature record, won the 116th Boston Marathon (Monday). ”I know I have to hydrate survive. I am more concerned about the hydration of my position than I am.”
A permanent U.S. resident, Korir sing religious songs, his trek along the scorching pavement to 84.8 degrees C temperature, 2 hours 12 minutes 40 seconds to cross the finish line. The completion of the Kenya swept to the finish sprint Sharon Cherop won the women’s race.
korir, graduated from Louisville, completed in 26 seconds ahead of second slowest Boston game since 1985, the Kenyan compatriots Levy Matebo This is nearly 10 minutes, followed by the best established here a year ago by Geoffrey Mutai, dropout stomach cramps After 18 miles of the world.
mutai hope to repeat victory will clinch a scene in the Kenya Olympic team. But it is Korir, two years of the Los Angeles Marathon champion, who might have won the tickets in the London Olympics.
“For me, I want to run the Boston Marathon is the event of the Olympic Games,” he said. ”I do not care about anything, but I really, really pleased to win Boston.”
The end of the top players to reach about 70 degrees of temperature rise in the Hopkinton start, and continue to rise to a record 89-85, more than 22 000 before 26.2 miles long journey to Boston Back Bay.
The organizers said Monday night, less than 2,000 people to participate in and receive some level of medical treatment, and took about 120 ambulance to the hospital. One was sent from Wellesley serious condition process, although the details of his or her condition was unavailable.
Copley Square medical tent crowd than in previous years, and the smell of sunscreen and air ambulance sirens.
“This is a very busy day, but it is the people to plan the day, the Boston Athletic Association executive director Tom Grilk said.” Marathon gods, she smiled to us. “
Heat to slow down the leader, and lead may have up to 4300 did not sit this one to believe the warning. Those provided by the race organizers to pick up their registration packets, but does not start in one place, the chance to compete next year.
A total of 22,426 players in the game of Hopkinton – 26716 contestants registered about 84%. Hundreds of people picked up their starting bibs will provide an opportunity does not show in the beginning, in 2013, instead of running.
The heat does not seem as Joshua Cassidy, Canada, won the men’s wheelchair competition in 1:18:25, two seconds to beat former world’s best. Shirley Riley, United States edged up Utako Tsuchida in Japan in the sprint in the women’s wheelchair division of labor to complete.
But the weather is almost takes the Korir victory.
Behind the heartbreak mountain 200 m leaders, Korir words, in the sixth place, from a bystander.
“I thought, ‘If I finish No. 5, that would be awesome,” Korir said. ”When I passed on the 5th, I think, ‘Let me get the fourth. I do not want to win I would like a count in a period of time, one by one, it just happened.”
At this time, leg cramps, forcing him to slow down.
“At the time I passed,” he said. ”Soon, I began to feel better, and once again picked up my speed.”
korir Kenya 19 people in the past 22 years, Boston has won. Bernard Kipyego is the third time as Kenyans swept the men and women on the podium.
Jason Hartmann of Boulder, Colorado, is ranked in fourth place and the top American.
“The pace is not blasting, so it is not, in my head,” Hartmann said. ”There is so much time, you want to throw in the towel, but you’re just fighting, I do not think this game, anyone can really say they are ready to heat.”
Jemima Jelagat Sumgong cherop outkicked to win by two seconds in 2:31:50 – the fifth consecutive year the women’s match sprint decided to down Boylston Street.cherop, who also hopes to be selected for the Kenya Olympic team at the World Championships in Boston last year and the third third.
“This time, I really prepared,” she said. ”The last game to go so fast, I do not know I was about to complete the course, I do not know, I do not know the finish line.”
The winner will receive $ 150,000. korir and his wife, Canadian runner-up Tarah McKay, in his home town of Kitale-run basis, and has established the hospital to kill 10-year-old memory of his brother Nicholas, Black Mamba.
A year later, the cool temperatures, a tailwind to help Mutai completed the fastest ever marathon at 03 points, 02 seconds, heat at a slower pace, trying to figure out how to complete the elite players of all recreational runners.
Race officials warned players to be alert to signs of heat stroke and dehydration, and requested that those who skipped the game experience or illness. BAA also provides a limited extension stop in the 2010 volcanic eruption in Iceland in the European air traffic and to prevent about 300 players from Boston.
Boston Marathon share of hot weather hit 97 degrees in 1909, the game became known as the “Hell” and 1976 in 100 degree heat, “run” hose, thermometer, and the audience sprinkled winner Jack Fultz garden hose to cool him down.
Jason Warick, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to participate in the game, his body cooling ice bath.
He finished 62nd after his 73 minutes of the half-marathon, the second 95 minutes, 13.1 miles.
“This is cruel, just brutally hot,” he said. About 15 miles, the wheels just turn off then it’s just home. “