Every third Monday in April on Patriot's Day for the past 119 years the gun has gone off for the world's Superbowl of running, The Boston Marathon. It is the world's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's best-known, athletic, human endeavors. Many runners spend a lifetime pursuing a qualifying marathon time to earn the right to race it while others raise money for a charity for the right to run it's heralded 26.2 mile course. When this sacred running ground experienced tragedy in 2013 the whole world gasped as runners vowed that the race of all races must go on and never su
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