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Today's fastest Bostonians and banana

The mayor's office and the BAA announced the fastest man, woman and non-binary runners in today's Marathon: Miles Batty, an MGH orthopedic surgery resident from West Roxbury who finished in 2:25, Ariana Maida, a Dana-Farber physician's assistant from Jamaica Plain, who completed the course in 2:48:50 and Nonie Anderson, a BC Law School student from Brighton, whose time was 3:44:18.

Batty once ran a sub-4-minute mile, as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University.

However, the time for the fastest banana went to Matthew Seidel of Oakland, CA, who established a new Guinness record today for the fastest Marathon fruit, when he peeled out from Hopkinton to Back Bay while dressed in a banana suit in 2:35:38.

That's almost six minutes faster than the previous record for fastest fruit-based time in a Marathon, set in 2020 in Arizona, by a man also dressed as a banana.


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Blue Bug of happiness

Matt Frank spotted this sky-blue VW Bug against the blue sky at Revere Beach this afternoon.


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If only Rosie Ruiz had taken their advice

Martin Lieberman noticed a developing theme among signs people held to cheer on the runners today. Another example.

Hugmajesty watched the runners rolling by near Cleveland Circle:

BC fan slatherered in red and gold runs the race
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She also caught some of the dogs at the race.

Michael Burstein videoed some of the runners going by on Beacon Street in Brookline:


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Getting some sun in

A snake found some old concrete and asphalt chunks a good place to do some sunning at the kayak launch in Millennium Park in West Roxbury this afternoon.


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Korean barbecue to replace Lebanese food in Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain News reports bb.q Chicken is moving into the Centre Street space where Cafe Beirut used to be.


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Some people a little too eager for the start of the Marathon

A roving UHub photographer reports from Beacon Street at Kent Street in Brookline, where the Green Line stop was supposed to remain open until 10 a.m., but which was closed at 8:40 a.m.

There was no access through the fence. While I waited, a woman was trying to take her kid to daycare and was only able to get through because an employee from the fence company was still around and unlocked the fence for her. Five people who had gotten off the outbound train followed her, saying they were trying to get to work. Kent St is one of the stations workers at the Longwood Medical Area use, and several of them had badges from the hospitals. When I pointed out to the fence guy that according to the MBTA this station is open until 10 AM and people (including me) need to get to work, he responded "You should have planned better." I asked him if people would be allowed to unlatch the fence to cross before 10 and was told they would not be. I checked the MBTA website last night and this morning, and there is nothing about above ground stations only being accessible from one side. The fence company workers said they were just doing their job and the Marathon volunteers said there was nobody from the Marathon organization I could email about this.


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Man shot on Vesta Road in Dorchester

A man was shot in the right side of his chest inside a home on Vesta Road off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5 p.m.

Sun, 04/14/2024 - 17:00
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Little blue grosbeak of happiness

Mary Ellen spotted this blue grosbeak at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.


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Busted on Storrow Drive

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, until the bus driver gets on Storrow Drive and skee-ronches right into the infamous Bridge of Double Storrows by Mass Eye and Ear. Tom Leonard couldn't help but photograph the scene this morning, given that the stuck bus was backing up traffic like nobody's business.

Traffic jam caused by stuck bus


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Gunfire on Abbotsford Street in Roxbury; three cars hit

At least three cars were hit in a barrage of gunfire shortly before 10 p.m. on Abbotsford Street, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury. More than a dozen shell casings recovered.

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 21:55
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