Tiger coach’s Boston terrorBy richmondfc.com.au
6:18pm AEST Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Richmond development coach/Coburg senior coach, Tim Clarke, was caught up in the drama of the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy last week.
Clarke made a lightning trip to Boston following Coburg’s match against Williamstown on April 13 to compete in his third marathon.
It had long been a goal of his to run in the prestigious Boston Marathon and he ended up clocking the highly-impressive time of two hours, 34 minutes, 51 seconds (2.34.51).
After finishing the race, he went for lunch with some friends, one street away from where the bombs exploded.
“When we were walking back to the hotel, we heard it, but weren’t sure what the noise was,” Clarke said.
“Within a couple of minutes, there were hundreds of people running down the street towards us yelling ‘run, run, run’.
“We crossed the road and ran 100 metres before stopping to see what all the panic was about. We eventually found out that the noise was from two explosions at the finish line.
“Then we decided to get away from the area until we could get more information . . .
“Apart from the panic and the people running around, the only vision we saw was that on the TV.
“Once the police got to the scene, you couldn’t get within four blocks of the finish line.”
Clarke described the general feeling after the bomb blasts that killed three people and injured more than 180 others, as a combination of panic, fear and disappointment.
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