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Boston marathon start times 2013 EDT: 9:00 am Mobility Impaired 9:17 am Wheelchair Division 9:22 am Handcycles 9:32 am Elite Women 10:00 am Elite Men & Wav

Boston marathon start times 2013 EDT: 9:00 am Mobility Impaired 9:17 am Wheelchair Division 9:22 am Handcycles 9:32 am Elite Women 10:00 am Elite Men & Wave One 10:20 am Wave Two 10:40 am Wave Three Explosion happened somewhere around (edit) noon PST, 3pm EDT. A little before. Elite women marathon times are in the 2:15 and slower range. Elite men are 2:05 and slower. Not sure about likely times for the earlier groups.

JPKab 14y ago
Noon? Umm, are you on the west coast? I think you are using start times in East Coast time and then doing calculations based on the explosion occurring West Coast time..... The elites were long, long over the finish line when this happened.
- tunesmith 14y ago
  Thanks - I misread. I updated the comment.
thatthatis 14y ago
Your explosion time is off. Happened around 3pm Eastern
- tunesmith 14y ago
  So that means it'd correspond to finish times likely for amateur runners with times in the 4:20 - 4:40 range, averaging 10 - 11 mins/mile.
  - mikestew 14y ago
    The finish clock on the video is correct, but it's very likely for third wave runners who started forty minutes after the first wave. So they finished in 4:09, but 4:49 from the start of the elite race. Made no sense to me at first because I was in the first wave, was walking back to my hotel 4:09 after my start, but heard nothing. Tacking on forty minutes makes the timeline add up, as I was napping by then (and wondering why sirens were interrupting my nap).
pondababa 14y ago
What? The explosion was just before 3:00 pm.
jaredsohn 14y ago
There is a vine link that shows the explosion elsewhere on this post; it shows a gun time of 4:09:44 (although not sure when 0:00 would be)
wtallis 14y ago
Nitpick: those times are EDT (UTC-04:00), not EST (UTC-05:00).
jamessb 14y ago
A video from AP [1] shows the finish line timer displaying 4:09:44 when the first explosion goes off. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJnC2zgriU&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJnC2zgriU&feature=playe...

JPKab 14y ago

Noon? Umm, are you on the west coast? I think you are using start times in East Coast time and then doing calculations based on the explosion occurring West Coast time..... The elites were long, long over the finish line when this happened.

tunesmith 14y ago
Thanks - I misread. I updated the comment.

thatthatis 14y ago

Your explosion time is off. Happened around 3pm Eastern

tunesmith 14y ago
So that means it'd correspond to finish times likely for amateur runners with times in the 4:20 - 4:40 range, averaging 10 - 11 mins/mile.
- mikestew 14y ago
  The finish clock on the video is correct, but it's very likely for third wave runners who started forty minutes after the first wave. So they finished in 4:09, but 4:49 from the start of the elite race. Made no sense to me at first because I was in the first wave, was walking back to my hotel 4:09 after my start, but heard nothing. Tacking on forty minutes makes the timeline add up, as I was napping by then (and wondering why sirens were interrupting my nap).

pondababa 14y ago

What? The explosion was just before 3:00 pm.

jaredsohn 14y ago

There is a vine link that shows the explosion elsewhere on this post; it shows a gun time of 4:09:44 (although not sure when 0:00 would be)

wtallis 14y ago

Nitpick: those times are EDT (UTC-04:00), not EST (UTC-05:00).

jamessb 14y ago

A video from AP [1] shows the finish line timer displaying 4:09:44 when the first explosion goes off. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJnC2zgriU&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJnC2zgriU&feature=playe...