It was a cold, however clear, day in Boston for the a hundred and thirtieth operating of the Boston Marathon on Monday, and, as common, numerous well-known individuals took half. Former Boston Bruin Zdeno Chara and 2018 Boston Marathon champion Des Linden had particular duties, firing the starter pistols for the skilled males’s {and professional} ladies’s divisions, respectively, earlier than leaping into the open division corrals to start out their very own races. Right here (in no explicit order) are among the well-known individuals who undoubtedly precipitated some spectators to do a double-take as they flew by.
Laura Inexperienced, comic
Inexperienced is thought for her sardonic Instagram posts about runners and operating. Inexperienced is in her early 40s, and completed in 3:50:17 on Marathon Monday.
Jeff DaRosa, musician
The Dropkick Murphys musician (DaRosa is a multi-instrtumentalist who performs rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, piano, tin whistle and bouzouki) is from the suburbs of Boston and ran in help of the Claddagh Fund, a charity began by the band, which raises funds for a wide range of causes together with veterans, youngsters and habit restoration. Like Inexperienced, DaRosa can also be in his early 40s, and completed in 3:40:32.
Chelsea Clinton, former “first daughter”
Clinton is the daughter of former U.S. president Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and host of the That Can’t Be True podcast. Clinton is an skilled runner and has run the New York Metropolis Marathon (4 occasions); we consider this was her first look at Boston. Some media report Clinton typically runs below a pseudonym to keep away from publicity, however her title was proper there within the outcomes on Monday; she is in her late 40s and completed in 3:40:52.
Suni Williams, former astronaut
Williams retired from the house enterprise in December 2025; she had most just lately spent 9 months on the Worldwide House Station earlier than returning to Earth in March 2025. Williams accomplished a digital model of the Falmouth Street Race in house in 2024; she was additionally the primary girl to run a marathon in house, again in 2007. Williams is within the W60-64 class and completed in 5:52:49 on Monday.
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Zdeno Chara, former NHL defenceman
Chara, a longtime defender for the Boston Bruins (and who additionally performed for the Ottawa Senators for a time) has run all six Abbott World Marathon Majors; this was his third look on the Boston Marathon. Chara is within the M45-49 age class and ran 3:18:00 on Monday.
Des Linden, 2018 Boston Marathon champion
Linden, who’s 42, was contemporary off a third-place end at this 12 months’s Marathon des Sables, the place runners cowl roughly 250 to 270 kilometres over six phases within the Sahara desert, carrying their very own meals and kit. (Linden has made a really profitable transition from skilled street operating to ultra-trail; she additionally raced the Black Canyon 50K in Arizona in February.) She completed in 2:35:49 at Boston on Monday.
Bryan Arenales, Love Island winner (Season 7)
Arenales is the truth star who gained Season 7 of Love Island; he’s 29, and completed in 4:06:49.
Chris Herren, former Boston Celtics star
Herren, 50, now excursions as a motivational speaker. His time on Monday was 5:12:13; outcomes point out he crossed the end line together with his spouse, Heather.
Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon champion
Burfoot, now 79, is a former editor of Runner’s World and has run the Boston Marathon 28 occasions, incomes the laurel wreath in 1968. Burfoot ran 5:11:29 on Monday.
And a few “Canadian Operating celebs”
Former elite runner Rob Watson of Vancouver, who’s now a coach with Mile2Marathon, returned to Boston for the primary time in 13 years; those that keep in mind the 2013 race (who might overlook? it was the 12 months of the bombings) could recall that he led the boys’s subject for a superb portion of the race, earlier than fading to eleventh (his time was 2:15:33). Now 42, on Monday, Watson ran a little bit extra conservatively, within the “open” division, and completed in 2:59:45.
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