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More than 200 runners race in 26.TRUE, the ‘real Boston Marathon'

The Marathon seeks to encourage While the Boston Marathon requires runners to submit qualifying times, reserved one hundred spots this year for first-time marathoners. Advertisement 'The event allows us to think outside of the box and really rethink and change the narrative, change the history about who deserves to be running,' Lash said. More than 50 people lined up on Dale Street along Malcolm X Park, ringing cowbells and cheering for runners as dancehall music boomed from a Red Bull-branded truck. 'Pain is temporary, Strava glory is forever,' one supporter's sign read. Chloe and Peter Hinrichs, who work respectively as an accountant and a landscape designer, traveled from out-of-state to watch their son race. The couple said they were happy to join a supportive environment cheering on the runners along a memorable course. 'It just highlights all the great neighborhoods of Boston,' Peter Hinrichs said. 'In the Boston Marathon, they don't really run that much in Boston.' Advertisement originated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when ''Let's use this as an excuse and an opportunity to run through the streets of our neighborhoods and really spotlight the city of Boston in a way that the namesake marathon, the Boston Marathon, does not do,'' Lash recalled thinking. PIONEERS intended to be a one-time event, but participants quickly expressed interest in running the course again the following year, Lash said. As the event has 'Those three civil rights leaders and activists are huge motivators to us,' Lash said. Organizers wanted to 'encourage the runners to really soak up and understand what the meaning of their impacts means for us,' she added. Jade Lozada can be reached at