When she got to the finish line, race officials had stopped handing out medals. The Boston Athletic Association confirmed they'd run out and would be mailing the rest next week.
"I felt great going into it. I had done all the training," he told CTV News Toronto."The race was very difficult. It did not go as planned."
"My partner Kate and I started cheering her on. We could hear her family cheering for her as well," he said."She was wearing a shirt that said, ‘Tayla, this is my first marathon.’"Cradles to CrayonsShe crossed the finish line roughly eight hours after the start, as race organizers were tearing down the barricades.
"I went up to her and said, ‘Did you get a medal?’ And she confirmed that she didn't, and so I said, ‘Well, you deserve this.’ And I took it off my neck and gave it to her," he said as he described the emotional moment."She said, ‘No, no, no, I can't, I can't,’" she said."He just said, ‘No this is your first marathon. You have run [for] almost eight hours, you deserve this. This is your medal.
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