"I decided my family was the wrong age for me to be training for a major marathon," she said between autographs.

The Boston race, like several other major marathons, now starts the elite women before the men.

She was the first African woman to win a major marathon.

But he had never finished higher than fifth in a major marathon.

And for their vehicles, accustomed to a maximum daily run of about 20 miles, that amounts to a major marathon.

And strange things have happened lately when a Brazilian has led a major marathon.

Wittenberg, a 42-year-old lawyer, will be the first woman to direct one of the world's major marathons.

A black African woman had never before won a major marathon.

He has not won a major marathon since New York.

During the 1980s he began designing running art for major marathons.