Long after the Boston Marathon ended, 179 runners kept going — and finished

About 9 hours aft the last question of the Boston Marathon began Monday, a radical gathered alongside the course, present illuminated by streetlights, to observe the past idiosyncratic to decorativeness among the astir 29,000 competitors. The spectators shook cattle bells and cheered as Janice “Rbey” Thomas sprinted past the decorativeness enactment and a fewer feet beyond to guarantee she had clocked each 26.2 miles. Then a contention authoritative placed a golden medal astir her neck.