Long-time Track and Field Official Reacts Heroical

by LetsRun.comApril 22, 2013Anyone who has run competitive track in New England in the last 20 years at a minimum (that’s as far back as our experience with New England track) likely knows Tommy Meagher – at least by sight.The same could be said of anyone who has run the Boston Marathon or watched it on tv during the last 17 years.For the last 17 years Meagher  – a long time track and field starter at track meets in New England – has served as the finish line coordinator for the Boston Marathon. As Meagher said in a Boston Globe piece in 2010, that means he organized “the security, the television crews, the photographers, the medical personnel, the drug testers, the race sponsors, and the time clocks at the finish.”He also often held the finishing tape and thus you likely recognize his picture.Tommy Meagher ran towards the blast