The first, the 2011 Philadelphia Marathon, was, well, a first marathon.
You'll never run another race as profound and meaningful as your first marathon.
It's a fact unwisely overlooked by all those people gearing up to run Sunday's marathon that as Phidippides, the first marathon runner, hit the final ribbon in Athens he promptly dropped dead.
Remarkably, Waitz, a champion track runner, ran her first marathon as a lark, with the encouragement of her husband, who was also her coach, and who told her that a trip to New York would be like a second honeymoon for them.
And sure enough it was, as Gebremariam won his first marathon, in 2 hours 8 minutes 14 seconds, a full 64 seconds ahead of Mutai.
They have become running partners as well as romantic partners, and ran their first marathon in January.
POSTRACE MEMORIES Kara Goucher's 30-year-old body hurt as never before Sunday, a memento of her first marathon.
MARATHON More people run marathons than ever, and few die, as the first marathoner (Pheidippides) supposedly did.
Daniel Warner, from Orange County, California, had come to Boston to run his first marathon as part of a charity team, raising money for the study of Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder.
McLaren's Jenson Button chose Hawaii as the location for his first marathon and relax with girlfriend Jessica Michibata, while Mercedes new boy Lewis Hamilton headed for a recording studio to lay down a few R&B tracks. .
