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Ready to run again: Elon alumna participates Wednesday, April 24, 2013 • page 18
2011 graduate Kristin Feeney proves resilient in raising money for cancer research
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Feeney’s family and friends came to support her at the Boston Marathon. They were all unharmed.
Tony Weaver, Jr. Senior Reporter
what was actually happening. In an attempt to understand the situation, she asked a fellow runner what was happening, who revealed something she would have never expected: “The race is over. There’s a bomb at the finish line.”
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Elon University alumna Kristin Feeney ’11 was cheered on by her family as they waved handmade signs while she ran in the Boston Marathon April 15. Feeney participated in the marathon to raise money for cancer research.
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Feeney was at mile 25.8 of the 26.2-mile distance race when the bombings occurred. She was unharmed.
s she reached the 40-kilometer marker, she turned a corner and suddenly, everything
stopped. Instead of continuing with the race, she ran into a wall of people. She thought she had made a wrong turn. The ensuing pandemonium and line of police officers blocking the path told a different story. Dozens of possibilities rushed through her head, but none were anything close to
Turning devastation into inspiration Kristin Feeney, an Elon University Class of 2011 alumna, was lucky enough to escape the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings unharmed. Her reasons for participating in the marathon hit close to