Boston's Weather Broke Scores Of Elite Runners, But Not Old Man Abdi Abdirahman
by Sarah Barker from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3N60E)
Despite miserable weather, 95 percent of of the 27,042 common folk who started Monday's Boston Marathon eventually crossed the finish line. The whippets up front proved less stalwart: two-thirds of the elite men's field dropped out. One who didn't was 41-year-old Tucson resident, Abdi Abdirahman. He finished 15th,"