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Michigan Runner Returning To Boston Marathon After Being Stopped Blocks From Finish Last Year

89.1 WEMU | By Andrew Cluley
Published April 18, 2014 at 1:27 AM EDT
PR Fitness Boston Marathon Runners
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An area runner will return to the Boston Marathon this year partly to show he will do what he wants to do and isn't letting fear stop him.  Police stopped John Farah just blocks from the finish line last year when the first bomb went off.  

Farah is one of about 30 area runners that train with PR Fitness and will be running the Boston Marathon Monday.  Farah thinks the race will be safe this year as he runs Boston for the 19th time.

Farah says it took him well over an hour to connect with family members last year.  He says not knowing if they were safe at the finish line was the hardest part of the experience for him.

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Runner John Farah describes his experiences near the end of the 2013 Boston Marathon when a pair of bombs ended the race.

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— Andrew Cluley is the Ann Arbor beat reporter, and anchor for 89.1 WEMU News. Contact him at 734.487.3363 or email him acluley@emich.edu.
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Andrew Cluley
Like many, I first came to this area when I started school at the University of Michigan, then fell in love with the community and haven’t left. After graduating from U of M in the mid 1990’s I interned at WDET for several years, while also working a variety of jobs in Ann Arbor. Then in 1999 I joined the WEMU news team.
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