BOSTON (AP) The Latest on Monday's 120th running of the Boston Marathon (all times local):
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8:55 a.m.
The Boston Marathon is officially underway with the mobility-impaired athletes setting off.
About 50 participants with visual impairments and other disabilities are in Monday's race. They're being guided by able-bodied runners accompanying them along the 26.2-mile course.
The more competitive push rim wheelchair division sets off at 9:17 a.m., and the elite women go off at 9:32 a.m.
The elite men and the first of four waves of runners follow at 10 a.m.
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8:30 a.m.
With the top American marathoners resting for the Rio Olympics, Neely Spence Gracey could be the best U.S. hope for a podium finish in Boston on Monday.
Gracey, 26, of Superior, Colorado, is an eight-time NCAA Division II national champion who will be making her marathon debut.
But in a way, she has been a marathoner all her life.
Gracey is the daughter of 1991 world championship bronze medalist Steve Spence. Her father finished 19th - the No. 2 American overall - in the 1989 Boston Marathon, and Gracey was born on Patriots' Day in 1990 while her father was running the race.
