Around here, Peter Gilmore is known as the 5K king of the annual Palisades-Will Rogers race. But lately, the Palisades High alum has been making headlines on the national stage and he did so again on Monday by finishing 10th overall in the 109th running of the Boston Marathon. In a field of 20,453 runners, Gilmore ran the famed 26.2-mile course in 2:17.32, less than six minutes behind men’s winner Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia. Gilmore was the second American finisher, beaten only by Alan Culpepper of Lafayette, Colorado (2:13:39). Gilmore, a Post Cup Award winner at PaliHi in 1995 and subsequent All-Conference cross country and track athlete at Cal, earned Palisadian-Post athlete of the year honors in 2004 after winning his hometown race for the seventh time in 10 years. He owns five of the six fastest times ever in the Palisades-Will Rogers race, including the course record of 14:10, which he set two years ago. Gilmore finished 18th overall out of 33,000 runners at the Chicago Marathon in 2003. For the last several years, he has run with the Nike Team in Menlo Park, training for longer distance races in hopes of qualifying for an Olympic marathon.
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