Hartford Marathon finishers cross with comeback stories
At Saturday's race, finishers included a runner who had lost 144 pounds, a breast cancer survivor, and a new mother on her first marathon.
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Finishers at Saturday's Hartford Marathon arrived with very different years behind them. NBC Connecticut reported that one runner was back after losing 144 pounds, another was a breast cancer survivor, and a third was a new mother running her first marathon. They crossed the same line.
The station did not present them as the winners of the race. The story is the return, the recovery, and the first-time finish. A marathon is one morning. What those three runners carried to the line was longer than the course.
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