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This article is part of Women’s Running’s complete 2023 Boston Marathon race coverage.
About a half hour after crossing the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, Dara Kelly, Christy Kirk, and Meredith Saillant were in a suite at The Lenox Hotel on Boylston Street, unwinding from a race well run.
The good friends who lived on the outskirts of Boston had just covered the 26.2-mile course, stride for stride, from Hopkinton to Boston in 3 hours, 38 minutes, and 19 seconds. Although they had each qualified for the race, they were running for Tedy’s Team, a charity group organized by former New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi that raises money for the American Stroke Association.
Kelly and Salliant were rehydrating and changing into casual clothes while Kirk was breastfeeding her seven-month old son when they heard a loud blast from the direction of the finish…
