Boston police commissioner runs 50th marathon, breaks 3:40
Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans finished his 50th marathon Sunday in Maine, clocking in at just under three hours and 40 minutes.
The 57-year-old completed the Shipyard Maine Coast Marathon in 3 hours and 39 minutes, making him the second runner in the 55-59 age group to cross the finish line.
Evans had planned to make the 2016 Boston Marathon his 50th, but after the March terrorist attacks in Brussels put added pressure on securing the race, he withdrew.
“I was disappointed, but my job is more important than my running is,” Evans told The Boston Globe. “The safety of the city comes first.”
While 18 of his marathons have been Boston, Evans hasn’t run the course since the marathon bombings in 2013. He finished the race before the bombings went off, and was back on Boylston Street about an hour and a half later to serve the city as police superintendent, his job at the time.
While Evans didn’t always see himself as a marathon runner, he doesn’t have plans to stop anytime soon.
“Once you got the bug, and you’re healthy, why would you give it up?” Evans told the Associated Press in March. “My bucket list was 50. Now it might go up to 60. I think my wife will kill me.”
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