Amin Touri
Multiplatform Editor at The Boston Globe
producer/writer @BostonGlobe @BGlobeSports | UMass + @MDCollegian alum | bukayo saka and stevie nicks stan account
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3 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Emma Healy |Amin Touri |Katie McInerney
You couldn’t ask for better circumstances for Marathon Monday. The 129th running of the Boston Marathon will get underway soon, with near-perfect weather — just cool enough for runners with temperatures in the low to mid-50s, but a sunny afternoon for spectators — and a historically deep field that could put on a show.
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5 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amin Touri
Paula Radcliffe’s running résumé could stretch from Hopkinton to the Back Bay. The Brit is, by all measures, one of the greatest marathoners in history. She was the dominant long-distance runner of the early and mid-2000s, winning three London Marathons, three New York City Marathons, and a Chicago Marathon.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amin Touri
Bob Hall will never forget the turn at the Newton firehouse. He still remembers the wall of noise, the incredible crowds, the smell of sausage and beer and cigar smoke as he approached the hills. Hall wasn’t alone, but he was the only one racing the Boston Marathon in a lightly modified hospital wheelchair. “I said to myself, other people have got to do this, too,” Hall said. “This is not my race, this is all of ours. That really gave me joy.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amin Touri
Newcomers to the Boston Marathon, whether charity runners, serious amateurs, or elite professionals, are often spooked by the hills. It helps when they’re in your own backyard. While many of the country’s elite training groups make their home at altitude in places such as Boulder, Colo., or Flagstaff, Ariz., the Boston Athletic Association’s own High Performance Team has access to the Newton hills year-round, a little advantage over the rest of the field on race day.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amin Touri
Have you ever had your heart broken by an email? So did 12,324 applicants for the 2025 Boston Marathon, a group that hit the qualifying standard but was not accepted as the competition for spots on the line in Hopkinton gets more fierce every year. The “cutoff” time for 2025 was the strictest in history. Competitors needed to run 6 minutes, 51 seconds faster than the nominal qualifying time for their age group to earn a bib.
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RT @Boston26_2_Pro: Unlikely star @KeiraDAmato leads a stacked Boston Marathon field of American women https://t.co/sQGw1dlBwu via @BostonG…
"I don’t think there’s too many pros in the field that have failed to qualify on their first try." This year's Boston Marathon features a remarkably stacked women's elite field, but even among all that talent, no one is quite like Keira D'Amato: https://t.co/RU6U3XP5HD
“It’s one of those things that I can put on the calendar, and it’s easy to get out the door.” Des Linden always has fun in Boston, and the 2018 champion is back for a 12th go at the world's oldest marathon: https://t.co/wEAS4EWHwV
