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Majority of Hoboken Runners in Boston Marathon Reported Safe, Three Unable to Finish Race

Running clubs and family members used social media to announce that their family members were safe after explosions were reported at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

At least 18 of the 22 Hoboken residents who registered to run the Boston Marathon on Monday were reported safe after according to running groups.

According to the Hoboken Harriers, one of Hoboken's two official running clubs, all of its members who ran the marathon were accounted for.

"All HOHAs are safe!" Victor Matveev posted on Facebook around 4:30 p.m.

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Michael Anderson, a HoHa member who participated in marathon posted on the HoHa site that "Mike G, Lynne, Dave B, Antoinette, Ellen, Angela, Jeremy and I all are safe. Cell service is spotty."

A colleague of his posted on the same page that he was "two blocks away from the explosions."

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It's unclear how many of the runners were members of Hoboken's other running group, the Hoboken Elysiannettes Running Society, which posted on Twitter "our members and anyone else we know personally are safe and accounted for."

According to the official 2013 Boston Marathon website, four out of 22 registered Hobokenites do not have a finishing time, one of whom didn't run the marathon.

"Julie Snyder, my wife, did not run. (had a baby instead)," Ross Snyder tweeted around 5:40 p.m.

The three other Hoboken runners without registered finish times were Caitlin Smyth, 27 — who has run HoHa races before — Ryan Steven and Craig Mittler.

PBS reported 562 runners from New Jersey among the 23,000 in the race. According to the Jersey Journal, there were at least 50 runners from Hudson County.

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