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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Darlene Corkrum and marathon legend Joan Benoit Samuelson at an Abbott World Marathon Majors event on Saturday. Corkrum ran her 30th marathon Monday in Boston. COURTESY OF DARLENE CORKRUM

With 29 marathons down, only Boston’s race is left for 66-year-old Darlene Corkrum

Michelle Brandabur April 16, 2019

For Darlene Corkrum, a 66 year-old runner from Seattle, Monday’s Boston Marathon was both just another marathon and, at the same time, a special marathon. It was Corkrum’s 30th lifetime marathon...

EDITORIAL: Boston Marathon no place for drugs

EDITORIAL: Boston Marathon no place for drugs

Editors April 21, 2015

It was a feat nothing less than spectacular: in the 2014 Boston Marathon, Kenyan runner Rita Jeptoo defied the odds and won a third female title. Jeptoo won for the first time in 2006, then again in 2013....

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