35 area runners entered in today’s Boston Marathon

A total of 35 runners from The Gazette's circulation area are entered in today's Boston Marathon.

Iowa City has the most entrants with 14 and Cedar Rapids has eight. There are five from North Liberty and two each from Marion and Coralville.

Brett Stephenson of Cedar Rapids is back after running a 3 hour, 13 minute and 32 second time last year. Jennifer Platha of Iowa City finished in 3:26:23 last year and is in the field again.

Here is a list of area entrants:

Cedar Rapids: David Carney, Jennifer Dietrich, Darcy Ehrmann, Scott Johnson, Michelle Silver, Brett Stephenson, Blaine Stott, David Vande Wallle

Coralville: Garrett Rettig, Tricia Seifert

Hiawatha: Mark Johnson

Iowa City: Andrea Ahrendsen, Christina Beaird, Rachel Elbring, John Hall, Katie Lynch, Michael McLoughlin, Matt Miller, David Moser, Tammy Nelson, Jennifer Plathe, Juenrg Tschirren, Jason Wilbur, Christine Ziemer, Lisa Zittergruen

Marion: Lori Gabel, Aaron Kelly

Mount Vernon: Monte Marti

North Liberty: Tyler Burkle, Kori Cusick, Timothy Keeney, Kimberly Patton, Sara Stewart

Peosta: Russell Nieman

Solon: Tony Kennicott