Thousands of runners took off Sunday morning in Boston's Run to Remember, a Memorial Day weekend tradition that honors fallen first responders.
Chris Marden, a first lieutenant in the Army Reserves, opted out of wearing a T-shirt and basketball shorts -- wearing 60 pounds of his gear instead on a warm day in New England.
"I figured let’s go do this and take it a notch up," said Marden."So we’re out here in full bunker gear, and what better way to remember the fallen and honor them than to run in what they made the ultimate sacrifice in.” Many police officers and firefighters took part in Sunday's race, including Quincy police officer Seekonk Officer Mike Knox and Quincy Officer Jimmy Dalton.
"There’s a group of 10 or 15 of us running and it’s for a good cause, and something we wanted to do it as a group,” Dalton said. Congratulations to Officer Mike Knox who ran the Boston Run to Remember 1/2 Marathon today. The race is a tribute to fallen law enforcement officers. Officer Knox finished in 1 hr 42 minutes 40 seconds at 170th place out of 1,825 total runners. Nice job!
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