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“The one factor that hurts is, truthfully, like my quads, my toes really feel nice although,” Concannon mentioned.
A person who ran the 2026 Boston Marathon barefoot is now recovering, and his toes are by some means feeling “nice,” the runner mentioned.
Terrence Concannon, 24, made the daring determination to compete within the Boston Marathon barefoot, which is “most likely [a] one and carried out” expertise, he mentioned.
The Hingham native skilled for the marathon in simply 40 days. The farthest he had run previous to the marathon was 16 miles, Concannon informed Boston.com.
“A pair weeks in the past I did 16 miles in Tampa, and my toes have been hurting so dangerous I believed I had, like, a stress fracture,” Concannon mentioned.
However, on Monday, regardless of worrying concerning the climate, Concannon ran the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston and completed in 03:57:23, BAA results show.
“The one factor that hurts is, truthfully, like my quads, my toes really feel nice although,” Concannon mentioned.
All through the race, onlookers step by step realized Concannon was operating sans sneakers, he mentioned.
“Increasingly individuals began to determine I used to be operating barefoot, so the hype form of constructed which was superior,” Concannon mentioned.
Seeing a runner barefoot could seem out of the unusual, with a neighborhood TV station even reporting he was “some random man [that] hopped within the race,” Concannon mentioned.
“I had my quantity on my shorts so lots of people couldn’t actually see the quantity. So I do know that was form of complicated with some individuals,” Concannon mentioned.
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