Cragg set to forget the pain of Boston

DISMISS him at your peril was the clear message from Ireland’s Alastair Cragg as he put the pieces back together after dropping out of the record breaking Boston Marathon with a badly blistered left foot.

The race was won in brilliant fashion by the Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai in a sensational time of 2:03.02 which surpassed the previous world best time by 57 seconds.

The fact that Boston is a point-to-point course means the time will not count as a world record but Cragg would like to have been part of it.