Meredith Fitzmaurice had no intention of winning the Run for Heroes Marathon this past Sunday — but she did anyway.

With the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings finally awake and apparently answering questions, authorities are eager to see if their suspicion that he and his older brother were planning on hitting targets beyond Boston will be confirmed.

Two Arabic speakers were taken off a plane in Boston today while authorities inspected a bag. Both were later released.

Here's a growing list of local and national safety precautions and related interruptions taken in the aftermath of this afternoon's Boston Marathon bombing:

Well, this is unfortunate! Here's a video of the final seconds of last weekend's Tokyo-Hakone relay marathon. Watch as—with less than 200 meters to go—longtime frontrunner Natsuki Terada makes an accidental wrong turn and loses the race. Ouch.

With a camera attached to her head, runner Gwen Schroeder decided to showcase what it's like to run a marathon. Staten Island. Brooklyn. Queens. the Bronx. Manhattan. It's a great tour of the city, some stretches lined with Gatorade cups.

Most people train for the New York City Marathon above ground, in sneakers, after years of working up to marathon distance. Edison Peña trained thousands of feet underground, in boots he sawed the ankles off of. And he still finished.

Is it Bendering time yet? Hell yeah it is! A five-hour Futurama marathon just started on Comedy Central—and everyone should watch. Unless your computer and your TV are in different rooms, in which case you should keep reading Gawker. It culminates tonight at 8:00 with a brand new feature-length, er... feature, The Beast With a Billion Backs. Brand new unless you bought the DVD. Anyway, I'm psyched—I haven't bought a DVD in like two years. Trailer after the jump.

He may not have won the marathon that day, but Mr. Testicles learned an important lesson: Slow and steady wins the Gays.