Runner reaches personal best in Boston
by TP sports
Apr 25, 2009 | 1368 views | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Tracy runner Betty Topping finished the Boston Marathon on April 20 with her best time yet in a marathon race.

Topping finished the course in three hours, 32.01 seconds through chilling winds, and picked up her pace in the last 8 miles. Topping said that runners get support from race fans all along the route.

She ran a pace of 8:06 per-mile and finished in the top 15 percent of the 9,432 women who started the race. She was one of 23,162 runners who started the race.
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