Today's fastest Bostonians and banana
The mayor's office and the BAA announced the fastest man, woman and non-binary runners in today's Marathon: Miles Batty, an MGH orthopedic surgery resident from West Roxbury who finished in 2:25, Ariana Maida, a Dana-Farber physician's assistant from Jamaica Plain, who completed the course in 2:48:50 and Nonie Anderson, a BC Law School student from Brighton, whose time was 3:44:18.
Batty once ran a sub-4-minute mile, as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University.
However, the time for the fastest banana went to Matthew Seidel of Oakland, CA, who established a new Guinness record today for the fastest Marathon fruit, when he peeled out from Hopkinton to Back Bay while dressed in a banana suit in 2:35:38.
That's almost six minutes faster than the previous record for fastest fruit-based time in a Marathon, set in 2020 in Arizona, by a man also dressed as a banana.
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Were there any bananas that couldn't finish the race and had to be picked up by a sweep bus? Did the bus operator call ahead to the finish line and inform them "I'm driving you bananas"?
What's the fastest non-bananary fruit time?
Do you mean fastest Bostonian runners?
Since that list doesn't include the race winners, am I correct in assuming the Mayor's office announcement is for the fastest runners from Boston?
Meanwhile, I guess Matthew Seidel is today's Top Banana.
Guinness is doling out records left and right!
Not that I'm plantaining.
They want to apeel to a broader audience.
n/t
What a day-o!
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What was the banana's overall performance?
Curious whether he made his splits.
Good Lord
When does the rest of the list come out that names fastest redhead, fastest bald guy, fastest Republican, fastest (fill in the blank)
Feel free to make it yourself
In the meantime, I think it's neat of the BAA to point out the fastest Bostonians in a popular event with a ton of participants from around the world, and for the Guiness folks to recognize the fastest banana.
One day, and I hope that day is soon
Every individual will be their own group or category and we will all be winners..../S