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It’s Patriot’s Day in Boston today. The third Monday in April is also celebrated there as Marathon Monday.

Not this year. The Boston Marathon was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

First run in 1897, the world’s most prestigious marathon has been moved to September 14. Here is a look at Boston without a marathon today.

Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/sports/bill-rodgers-takes-you-through-sights-sounds-feel-what-would-have-been-marathon-monday

Boston Herald
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/04/20/boston-marathon-runners-deal-with-emotions-of-a-postponed-race/

Boston TV Ch. 5
https://www.wcvb.com/article/despite-being-urged-to-stay-off-course-at-least-1-runner-took-to-boston-marathon-route/32205401

Boston TV Ch. 7
https://whdh.com/news/runners-told-to-stay-away-from-boston-marathon-route-practice-social-distancing/

Boston TV Ch. 10
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mayor-walsh-you-are-not-a-champion-if-you-run-boston-marathon-route/2110507/

Mass Live
https://www.masslive.com/boston/2020/04/at-least-one-person-runs-boston-marathon-route-despite-officials-guidance-against-doing-so-due-to-covid-19.html

WGBH Boston radio
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/04/20/runners-navigate-a-patriots-day-with-no-boston-marathon

WBUR Boston radio
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/04/20/boston-marathon-2020-alex-ashlock

Boston Business Journal
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/04/20/five-things-you-need-to-know-and-marathon-monday.html

ESPN
http://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=29066111

NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/20/836961970/in-boston-no-marathon-monday

New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/sports/coronavirus-boston-marathon-running.html

The New Yorker magazine
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/what-it-means-to-miss-marathon-day-in-boston