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"[#image: /photos/57d8c3ebd3276fe232947a59]||||||\\n\\nDespite months of [high-profile training](/flash/2014/04/fitness-shalane-flanagan-boston-marathon), it's not Shalane's year to win the Boston Marathon.\\n\\nThe women, [who took off about 30 minutes before the men at 9:30 EST](/flash/2014/04/fitness-watch-boston-marathon-2014), were running in a tight pack for the majority of the race. Boston-area native Shalane Flanagan fell behind at around mile 20, and gave way to Rita Jeptoo of Kenya who took the lead and won the race, for the second consecutive year. (She also took the Chicago and New York marathon championships this past calendar year.) She shattered the course record, coming in at 2:18:56, (previously held at 2:20:43), and broke her own marathon PR too, which was 2:19:57.\\n\\nBut in the men's race, it was American Meb Keflezighi the whole way. The veteran marathoner is the first American to win the race in over 20 years -- and crushed his own PR by 36 seconds, with his total time clocking in at 2:08:37. His lead was dominant through much of the course, and we couldn't be prouder of our hometown hero.\\n\\n RELATED:\\n\\n- [How to Watch Boston 2014](/flash/2014/04/fitness-watch-boston-marathon-2014)\\n- [You Can Run Boston, Too!](/flash/2014/03/fitness-boston-marathon-running-app)\\n\\nImage Credit: *AFP/Getty Images*"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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