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Article: Cheruiyot Repeats as Boston Marathon Winner; Grigoryeva Takes Women's Title on Soggy, Windy Day
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- The Washington Post
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- April 17, 2007
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A year after he set the course record here, Robert Cheruiyot felt
like an amateur runner Monday as he slogged through the Boston
Marathon. The Kenyan looked at his watch midway through the race --
wait, a six-minute mile? -- and wondered what had gone wrong. His
head hurt. His back ached. He hadn't run so slowly in a race for at
least a decade.
"I thought maybe they changed the course," Cheruiyot said. "Like
maybe they made it longer."
That Cheruiyot still managed to win in 2 hours 14 minutes 13
seconds stood as perhaps the greatest testament to the race's
difficulty. Wet roads and fierce winds made for the slowest Boston
Marathon in 30 years. Cheruiyot, 28, defended his title despite ...