Pardon us if this was mentioned quite a bit in advance copy, but this is the first we've heard of Boston Marathon winner Robert Cheruiyot -- clearly faster than that motorcycle -- having the same first and last name as an unrelated previous four-time winner. From the AP:
Let him be known from Hopkinton to the Back Bay as "Robert the Younger" -- the second Kenyan named Robert K. Cheruiyot to win the Boston Marathon and the first person ever to run the legendary course in under 2 hours, 6 minutes.
Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot won the 114th Boston race Monday, finishing in 2:05:52 to shatter by 82 seconds the course record set by four-time winner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, who's not related. ...
Cheruiyot, 21, surpassed the course record of 2:07:14 set in 2006 by his 31-year-old countryman. A farmer back home, he earned a bonus of $25,000 on top of the $150,000 -- and a golden olive wreath from the city of Marathon, Greece -- that goes the men's and women's champions.
"I am going to buy some cows," Cheruiyot said.
As someone who is training for his second marathon, we cannot fathom running it in 2 hours, 6 minutes ... or 3 hours ... or maybe even 4 hours. Sub-5:00 miles for the entire thing? Ridiculous.
