Vinny Castronuovo, a Northeastern graduate student, was exhausted and sore after running 26.2 miles into a rainy headwind when his phone rang on Monday afternoon. It was Michelle Wu, mayor of Boston.
She was calling to congratulate Castronuovo for winning the inaugural Fastest Bostonian Award at the 127th Boston Marathon.
It was only the third marathon of a young running career that he launched as a high school freshman in Carmel, New York.
“I had a feeling I’d be top three, top four, top five maybe [among the Boston men],” says Castronuovo, who will graduate next month with a master’s in mechanical engineering. “So that was pretty cool.”
Though Castronuovo, 23, wasn’t especially happy with his performance, his time of 2:25:56 was a personal best—two minutes faster than his Boston result of one year ago.
