In his first time running the Boston Marathon, Petersburg local Uriah Lucas finished 556th (out of 29,376) overall, with a time of 2:34:12, on April 20, 2026, in Boston, Mass. This was Lucas' third marathon in his career.
The Boston Marathon, the world's oldest and one of the most prestigious annual 26.2 mile marathon, held on Patriots Day. This event has been around since 1897. This year, according to NBC Boston, over 30,000 runners competed in this event. One of those runners, marathoner and Petersburg local Uriah Lucas, ran Boston for his very first time.
Lucas, 22, had been training for this event since December 2025.
"My training was a mixed bag of good and bad. The bad was that I rolled an ankle in the middle of the build and that set me back and I was only able to get 60-70 miles a week because of how mu...
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