Interesting Facts
- Number of race cups used for water and
Gatorade on race day: 42,000
- Number
of running shoes expected to pound the streets on race day: 10,000 + volunteers & spectators
- Gallons of pop consumed at the Post Race
Party: 125
- Gallons of water consumed at the Post
Race Party: 950
- Number of course entertainers: over 350
- Closest QCM margin of victory for
Men: 11 sec. Andrew Musuva's (Kenya) 2002 win
- Closest QCM margin of victory for
Women: 13 sec. Mary Burns-Prine's (USA)
1998 win
- 25,000
Marathon finishers in the U.S. in 1976
- 467,000 people finished a marathon in
2009 - WOW!
- Countries represented by individual
overall winners - QCM open division:
- MEN: Kenya-7, USA-4, Russia-1, Ethiopia-1
- WOMEN: USA-4, Belarus-3,
Russia-2, Kenya-2, Ethiopia-1,
Ukraine-1
The average woman burns 2,880 calories while
running a marathon- Modes
of transportation used by QCM photographers in action: 4 (car, motorcycle, bicycle, airplane)
- 1897:
The year the first official marathon race in America-the Boston Marathon-was
held
- 1972:
The first year women were officially allowed to run Boston
- Number
of photos taken by QCM photographers on race weekend last year: 3,884
- The
I-74 bridge is probably more heavily loaded during the marathon than on regular
traffic days. Rhythmic running that gets the span moving is creepy, but ok. No
harm done.
