Boston Marathon start times, how to watch as race returns on Patriots Day for first time since COVID pandemic

The Boston Marathon returns to is historic time slot on Patriots Day, the third Monday of April for the primary time for the reason that coronavirus pandemic struck.

The race was postponed in April 2020 because the pandemic first unfold and other people shied away from public occasions in favor of social distancing. Runners had been invited to take part nearly. Final 12 months in 2021, the race was postponed to the autumn as COVID instances surged as soon as once more final spring.

Runners will take off for the 26.2-mile trek this Marathon Monday from the beginning line in Hopkinton over the course of a number of hours relying on their talent and talent ranges.

The Boston Marathon will happen on Monday, April 18. The boys’s wheelchair begin will kick issues off at 9:02 a.m., adopted three minutes later by the ladies’s wheelchair occasion.

• Date: Monday, April 18
• Time: 9 a.m. ET
• TV: USA Community
• Stay stream: NBC Sports activities App, fuboTV

The beginning gun for this 12 months’s Boston Marathon shoots off simply after 9 a.m. on Monday, April 18.

The boys’s wheelchair race will kick issues off at 9:02 a.m., adopted three minutes later by the ladies’s wheelchair occasion.

At 9:30 a.m., the handcycles and duos group will depart.

Runners within the skilled males’s division are the subsequent group up, taking off at 9:37 a.m. Subsequent comes the skilled ladies’s division, who take off from the end line at 9:45 a.m.

The final race to take off is the the para-athletics division, which begins at 9:50 a.m. Wave 1 will go away the beginning at 10 a.m. Wave 2 will kick off at 10:25 a.m., adopted by wave 3 at 10:50 a.m. and wave 4 at 11:15 a.m.

The race finally ends up in Boston’s Copley Sq..

About 30,000 individuals are anticipated to return to the area on Marathon Monday — both to race or spectate, Boston authorities stated.