How Did Couple, Other Tinley Runners Do In 2018 Boston Marathon

BOSTON, MA — Thousands of runners from around the world competed in Monday's cold and rainy Boston Marathon. Four of those race entries were veteran long-distance runners hailing from Tinley Park, including a married couple who have been competing in marathons for nearly three decades.

Jamie and Lynn Parks have been running in races together — including previous Boston Marathons — since July 1991 after Lynn suffered a severe brain injury following a car accident. The couple competed in Monday's event the same way they have for other marathons, with Jamie pushing Lynn in her wheelchair.

This year, Jamie and Lynn finished with an unofficial net time of 4 hours, 22 minutes, 16 seconds. That time earned the couple 19,490th place overall.

Three other Tinley Park runners also were part of the racing field. Here are their unofficial net times, as well as how they placed overall and by gender and division:

• MJ Moore, 29: 2:51:00 | 645 | 627 | 567
• Jimmy Steyskal, 62: 3:53:17 | 14,260 | 9,062 | 245
• Maureen Spinler, 56: 4:24:57 | 19,855 | 8,426 | 370

Both Steyskal and Spinler ran in last year's Boston Marathon. Steyskal posted a time of 04:34:15, and Spinler had a time of 04:15:57.

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The wet and cold conditions during the 122nd running of the marathon not only caused the Boston Red Sox to cancel their annual Patriots Game in the morning, but it also had runners earning some of the slowest times in decades. Extra bibs even were made available for race's elite runners in case they needed to shed wet layers along the 26.2-mile course.

Michigan resident Desi Linden won the women's race with a time of 2:39:54, and she became the first American to win the marathon in 33 years. Her time also was the slowest in 40 years, but the weather wasn't entirely to blame for that. She lost 14 seconds off her time while helping fellow American runner Shalene Flanagan return to the race after a bathroom break.

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In the men's race, Yuki Kawauchi was the winner with a time of 2:15:58, the slowest winning time since 1976. He also became the first Japanese man to win the marathon since 1987.

Linden's time could have been about 14 seconds quicker, but she helped fellow American Shalene Flanagan get back to the pack after Flanagan peeled off into a port-a-potty during the race. Flanagan, a Marblehead, Mass. native, recently became the first American woman in 40 years to win the New York Marathon.

The winners in the wheelchair divisions also had slower times than usual this year. Marcel Hug of Switzerland won in the men's wheelchair race with an unofficial time of 1:46:25, the slowest since 1987. Russian native and Maryland resident Tatyana McFadden won her fifth Boston Marathon in the women's wheelchair race with a time of 1:59:30, the slowest in 30 years.

Patch editor Mike Caraggi contributed to this report.

Runners approach the 24-mile marker of the 2018 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 16. (Photo by Scott Eisen | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images)