BOSTON — (AP) The 121st Boston Marathon is on its way from Hopkinton to Boston.
The bulk of the 30,000-runner field left at 10 a.m. for the 26.2-mile trek to Copley Square.
Along the way, they were expected to be slowed by temperatures rising into the 70s.
The women left at 9:32 a.m., and American Desi Linden was an early leader as the lead pack passed through Ashland and into Framingham.
Defending champion Atsede Baysa was also in the pack.
Plans are in the works for memorials to mark the sites where two bombs exploded during the 2013 Boston Marathon.
City officials and the families of five people who died in the bombing or its aftermath say there’s also a plan to build a separate, larger memorial to victims, survivors and responders.
Pablo Eduardo is a Massachusetts resident and internationally known sculptor.
He’ll create the memorial markers on Boylston Street where bombs killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others.
Eduardo said Monday his goal is to “embody the spirit of those we lost and the spirit of the city they loved.”
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