He was grateful his wife was not waiting at the finish. Cordts was less than a half mile from the finish when the bombs went off. She had joined him for the weekend and returned home.

His target time was also four hours, not one of his better goals and so he told his wife she didn’t need to wait for him at the finish. The first bomb exploded at 4:09:44.Ĭordts was running his 18th consecutive Boston Marathon. They crossed under the time clock at 4:02. Lickteig kept their pace and pushed her mother to try to finish in less than four hours despite cramping in her legs.

Lickteig and her mother were still in the finishers corral getting their finisher's medals when the first bomb exploded. Navy Judge Advocate and past member of the SDSU Track and Field team with Chamberlain. Lickteig was running with her mother and Brad Cordts, an attorney, a U.S. He had two friends running the Boston Marathon: Kaci Lickteig, an Omaha runner who recently ran the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run finishing second among females with a time of 19:20:31. On April 15, 2013, Joe Chamberlain was doing what many runners do following friends’ progress as they participate in elite running events.

This is the second article in a four part series on Omaha District Electrical Engineer, Joe Chamberlain, who competed in the Boston Marathon in 2014 and is training to run the New York Marathon this November.

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