Credit: Eric Bofinger/Submitted
“We were there just an hour before,” Boston Marathon runner Eric Bofinger said just before 7:30 p.m. as he headed back to his home in Langhorne.
Bofinger ran the marathon with five others Monday morning and said he was on a commuter train in Boston when news of the explosions, which killed three and injured over 100, reached him through Twitter.
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“As soon as we finished the race, we got together for a picture and got out of there,” said Bofinger, describing how he wanted to avoid the post-race crowds.
The finish line that Bofinger and his fellow runners crossed Monday afternoon would become the site of what federal officials are calling a “terrorist attack” just a short time later.
“It’s disheartening they could take something so sacred, like Patriot’s Day in Boston, and tarnish it like this,” the part-time Cairn University running coach and full-time staff member at Bucks Physical Therapy in Richboro said. “We were scared at first.”
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Bofinger said he is concerned that Monday’s events in Boston will put a stain on future races.
Peter Lederer, also a resident of Langhorne, was took part in the Boston Marathon. According to a post on his Facebook account, he is unharmed.
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