reflection here?
As we return to Patriots Day Racing for the first time in
more than a thousand days. The gun is ready to fire in
Hopkinton.
The 2022, Boston Marathon is underway, and that
slope that they get here at the start of the race. Chris gets
their speed up and Earth, desert, speed up in this is 45.
50 miles an hour
as a Max going down, but you've got to use it for all it's
worth. This is different than the runners in some ways where
you can totally ruin your legs as you're trying to run out
this fast for these guys. It's get up to top speed,
get into it. A few men, use it as best you can.
And as our drama shock dropping off just a little bit off
the back there.
Well, if we look at the conditions here Chris, we've
had all sorts of, you know, concerns because the weather
can shift, you know, day-to-day, but they have woken
up to a pretty spectacular conditions here though. The
winds may shift a little bit kind of may be facing headwinds
little bit later on in the
racing, the winds can shift and right now, it's kind of nice
that there aren't really any winds and it's really pretty
calm, and being pretty calm going down that Hill. You see,
they just
The one-mile mark and it seems like they just
just shot the gun.
And, but going down, you can get those puffs of wind that
move you all over the road. So it's really kind of nice right
now.
This is where it's going to start collecting. Again. It's
rolling for these first first, five miles down, hill and
rolling.
So the first of our professional Racers now, out on
the course, following
those blue stripes, all the way into the city, that is the
measured part of the course. And the
chase already underway here, early on in the men's
wheelchair division.
Back when I covered to the Boston Marathon and 2022,
the top two man in the wheelchair division, it's Daniel Roman
Chuck leading, Aaron Pike. That was Pike who went through the
10 km split. They both went in under 18 minutes. So very Swift
that downhill stretch obviously helping here, but they've
gotten kind of back and forth and you know, trying to gauge
each other's
Fitness and
You know still a lot of racing to go here if Daniel Roman
Chuck. And what we see this is amazing just in that Daniel
Roman Church going uphill right now
and he's Cadence doesn't change. That's the thing that
really is different. When you look at it perceptibly. You're
thinking
this looks like he's just cruising along in the flats,
but he's actually going uphill. And that's what's really
amazing about him is that he just is so so strong. And so
efficient that he's able to go uphill a man. Maintain that
Cadence
in a way that just,
it doesn't make sense it. Having been eraser and having
gone uphill, my Cadence goes out the window. When I start
going up a hill, it totally changes. And it just he makes
it look so simple and so easy, which is frustrating because
it's also
really, really fast.
Quick chicken on the men's wheelchair. Nothing has
changed. Here is Daniel Roman Chuck.
Closing in on the victory
get this is. We've just
reached the point where Daniel actually does really well,
right? You're getting into these Hills into into the for
Hills and Newton and this is what he does. So so so well
the race in the wheelchairs is actually really, and you see
him playing on a playing with his gloves. Looks like he
slipped a little bit. But,
but yeah, this is this is what Daniel does really. Well. The
race is going to be really for second Aaron Pike. His teammate
is maintaining about it. He's 233
s Lead and and that's what's going to be interesting to see
how that comes out of these Hills. You see, Daniel going up
the hill right now, and
he makes that he'll look pretty easy. Really does just
nice and smooth, nice and easy keeps it going.
You see, most people collapse on their
collapse on their on their knees
but looking really great right now,
following that blue.
Blue line, that's leading him to the finish line.
I do have to mention that that blue line will turn right
on Hera Ferg, right? And then left on Boylston. We had a bit
of an issue with Marcel hug last year where I ended up
following the lead vehicle and had to turn back around and
come back onto the course.
I would imagine. Daniel is, well aware of that turn onto
herefords.
Yeah, that cost Marcelo who gave a fifty thousand dollar,
bonus for a course record bonus. That was available to
him
there. That turn,
you ran the tangent on that turn. There was, there was no
doubt about it. He was taking the right turn. This is
slightly uphill as well. It doesn't really look at when
Daniels doing it, but it's slightly uphill.
And something that comes as a little bit of a shock to before
you get onto Boylston and feel like. Okay. Now now it's
the real run right into the Finish. Yeah, but what a moment, this
is Iconic moment in the sport, the left, turn
onto Boylston Street and Daniel Roman Chuck.
Chuck.
Start the show that wingspan and that
speed and energy. He can generate with those wider
Wheels.
It's amazing. Just coming off that turn one of the things
that's really interesting to watch with Daniel is just when
he puts two or three Strokes together in Rapid succession,
his chair just surges and it's absolutely amazing. It's this
thing of beauty because once you get it up to speed, you can
maintain that speed. Which is what he's doing now, but what
he does, so well is bring it up to speed quickly and
now he's just going to be able to post right in a lot of ways.
Just with that that amazing Cadence. And just just turning
over a great speed.
See the crowds beginning to gather here, as he comes into
picture. He became the youngest Boston Marathon wheelchair.
Winner, back in 2019, making history.
He adds to the history of Boston winning here
in 2022.
Announced to the crowd. And to anyone who could listen that we
have our first,
Boston Marathon champion in 2022, Daniel Roman Chuck,
the 23 year old now, a two-time champion.