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April 21, 2008

Photo: On your mark...

Journal Photo/M. Charles Bakst
Twenty-six-point-two miles later: the Boston Marathon's finish line.

BOSTON -- The first racers have just crossed the start line, but they're still hours away from making it to the finish line.

Today is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts -- that means today is the annual Boston Marathon.

The race began at 9:25 a.m. with the men and women's wheelchair division. Then it's onto the men and women runners.

The starting line is in Hopkinton, Mass., and the course runs through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Newton and then into Boston, ending more than 26 miles later, in front of the Boston Public Library.

Download a .PDF file of the route here.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal columnist M. Charles Bakst

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