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In addition to that whole All Star Game thing, there are a couple other non-major league athletic events of note coming up. Participate, spectate, or ignore, based on your interest level.

Robert Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon for a third time. He is an absolute Iron Man. We love the little detail that he blew a kiss as he crossed the line. Here are the names and times of the big winners:

This year the 111th Boston Marathon will be run, as usual, on Patriots Day. April 16th. The Boston Athletic Association (BAA) will be producing the event with over 500,000 spectators, as they have since the Marathon began in 1897. The Boston Marathon is the oldest annual marathon in the world - the modern marathon was revived by the Olympics in 1896, but is only run once every four years. As we were looking to run a story on the 26.2 we find out from the Globe that there were about six years that the 26.2 miles was just over 1,000 yards short of the total. Road construction and reconfiguration had eliminated a couple of the curves along the way which reduced the total distance. When the BAA found out about it they backed up the starting line. The trivia about the Marathon is almost endless - there's 111 years of trivia to keep you going.

..Running the Marathon on the International Space Station. Apparently you don't have to be in Boston on Patriots Day to run in the Marathon. For the last three years the Marathon has been run in Iraq with support from the Boston Athletic Association (or the BAA - the organization that runs the marathon). This year they'll be sending trophies and a finish line tape to Kosovo for a similar endeavor. The furthest competitor this year*...