Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement on September 21.
Monday October 11th, 2021, is Marathon Monday and the scheduled day for the 125th running of the Boston Marathon. The 2021 event will be in-person and look a lot like marathon runs before 2020. Last year’s event was a virtual run allowing bib holders to run a 26.2-mile course of their own design on a date and time of their choice. More than 16,000 people participated in the virtual run.
One of those participants was Concord resident and WMUR-TV News Director Alisha McDevitt. Her official time for the 2020 run was four hours, nine minutes and six seconds. McDevitt made the run on September 13th of 2020 in the Merrimack Valley Region of Massachusetts. Not only did she run every inch of her chosen 26.2-mile course, but because it was a self-policed effort, she added a little extra distance to her route “just to be sure” she says.
With the virtual nature of 2020 behind us, she is looking forward to the 125th running of the Boston Marathon when it returns to the traditional Hopkinton-to-Boston course this year. Alisha McDevitt will once again be running in support of the athletes of Special Olympics New Hampshire.
This will be McDevitt’s third Boston Marathon outing. The two previous ones were also fundraisers for SONH. She started running in 2017. “Luckily for me, my colleague, (WMUR Sports Director) Jamie Staton has helped me learn the ropes over the last four years. I love it!”
Jamie Staton has run the Boston Marathon six times and four of them were fundraising efforts for SONH. Regarding Alisha McDevitt’s run Staton says “I am so glad that Alisha has kept the tradition of a WMUR runner for SONH in the Boston Marathon. She has been training hard in the Summer heat, making sure she represents the SONH athletes in the best possible way on race day” he said.
The 125th running of the Boston Marathon is scheduled for Monday, October 11th and more information can be found here. The SONH fundraising page for Alisha McDevitt’s run is live now and donations can be made here.
Reference
Sue Williams
603-714-4792
susanw@sonh.org
Original source can be found here.
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