Saturday marks 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombing. It’s still hard for Derm Holwell and his fellow runners to process the feeling of being at that race. Still, his running club will return for the day of remembrance to honour the victims.
Derm Holwell has logged every mile he has run since 1978. Those miles live and breathe on an Excel spreadsheet where days and months are tracked. There are columns for total annual miles and personal-best times, and a row totalling all the miles he has run in his career — 85,678 and counting.
“It’s hard to believe I was right there,” Holwell said, pointing to the image. “I know that section like the back of my hand. Every street. Every store along there. Just seeing that now, I don’t like looking at it.” He also remembers checking his watch at 2:49 p.m. as his van took Exit 13 to Natick some 11 1/2 miles from downtown Boston. He was thinking about how some of the 25 runners from the Nomads, his Mississauga running club, were doing as they were still out on the course.
He still can’t shake the image of eight-year-old Martin Richards, whose body was photographed laying on the ground, wrapped in a blanket, and he gets emotional seeing the monuments that honour the victims. “We feel tremendous responsibility to deliver on a promise. There’s a new-found appreciation for what it was,” Fleming said. “People are interested in Boston more broadly and more widely than before. Prior to 2013, we certainly were followed as a sporting event but now there’s a genuine interest.
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