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The Boston Marathon is underway. Two-time defending champion Evans Chebet hopes to be the first runner to win three in a row since 2008.

The 128th Boston Marathon is being held Monday, bringing tens of thousands of runners to New England for the annual race. The world’s oldest marathon is traditionally held on Patriots’ Day, the third Monday in April. The 26.2-mile course runs from Hopkinton in southern Middlesex County to Copley Square in Boston.Forecasts called for sunshine with temperatures in the mid- and high 50s by the time the field departs.

Once a year for the last 100 years, Hopkinton becomes the center of the running world thanks to a quirk of geography and history that made it the starting line for the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon. The Boston Marathon was born next door in Ashland in 1897. But the start was moved to Hopkinton in 1924 to conform with a new international marathon standard. On race day, this otherwise sleepy New England town serendipitously located 26.

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