Boston Marathon 2024 LIVE Updates: Follow along in real-time as the 128th edition of the race is set to start

The 2024 Boston Marathon is officially underway, with the men’s wheelchair starting proceedings before the women’s wheelchair (below).

It is not long now until the professional athletes cross the starting line in the 128th version of the race.

This is the route 30,000 runners will take in Boston during the day.

The race starts over in Hopkinton before ending on Boylston Street.

Along the way, competitors will pass Lake Cochituate, the Johnny Kelley statue, Boston College and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

The route also includes the famous Heartbreak Hill, a 0.4-mile climb that provides a final grueling push for runners late in the race.

Today’s Boston Marathon will be broadcast live on ESPN 2 from 9 A.M. It can also be streamed on the network’s ESPN+ service.

In Boston, local television channel WCVB will also cover the race.

Before the first competitors exit the mark, Mayor Michelle Wu (left) and Governor Maura Healey (right) were among those who stopped to honor those lost and injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

Family members of the victims joined Wu and Healey to lay wreaths at a memorial site on Boylston Street ahead of today’s event.

Three people were killed and hundreds injured when a pair of bombs detonated near the finish line 11 years ago.

The Navy Guard has already officially launched the 128th Boston Marathon, but here are the rest of today’s starting times in ET — with men’s wheelchair participants first.

• Military March – at
• Men’s Wheelchair – 9:02
• Women’s Wheelchair – 9:05
• Handcycles and duos – at 9.30
• Professional Men – 9:37
• Professional Women – 9:47
• Para Athletics Division – 9:50am
• Wave 1 – 10:00
• Wave 2 – 10:25
• Wave 3 – 10:50
• Wave 4 – 11:15

Here’s today’s weather forecast over in Boston, where a chilly morning is expected before temperatures rise later. And luckily no rain!

A group of Massachusetts National Guard members crossed the starting line at Hopkinton to officially begin this year’s Boston Marathon on Patriots’ Day.

Race director Dave McGillivray sent the group of about 30 military members off shortly after 1 p.m. Lt. Col. Paula Reichert Karsten, one of the marchers, said she wanted to be part of a “quintessentially Massachusetts event.”

Hopkinton is celebrating its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the Boston Marathon. The start was moved from Ashland to Hopkinton in 1924 to make the race the official Olympic marathon distance of 26.2 miles (42.1 kilometers).

Hello and welcome to Mail Sports’ live coverage of today’s Boston Marathon, where the 128th edition of the annual race is set to start all over again in Massachusetts.

We bring you all the latest updates and developments as an estimated 30,000 runners take part in the grueling 26.2-mile battle, which promises to be one to remember from start to finish.

So stay tuned all day!