Bombings Heighten Runners’ Commitment to 2014 Boston Marathon
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The 2014 Boston Marathon has moved atop the goal lists of runners who have found a new reason to seek qualification for the world’s oldest annual 26.2-mile race.
“I didn’t have any desire to run Boston until yesterday,” James Ford, a 41-year-old runner and triathlete from Memphis, Tennessee, said in a telephone interview a day after the deadly bombings at the race. “Next year, you are going to have more people than ever. Determination is not something to be messed with.”