Boston marathon with an impressive time of two hours, 48 minutes and 29 seconds, which was within seconds of his best performance at the annual race.

A total of 12 local runners participated with pharmacist Nigel Clewett finishing behind Patchett in a time of 2:56.30.

Positions for the local runners were not available last night.

Third finisher was Roy Simone in 3:03.00 while Cal Steede came in next in 3:19.44 and Ed Gomez in 3:40.00.

The next three Bermuda runners all achieved personal bests, with Dana Hall clocking 3:49.30, Mike Douglas 3:52.52 and Louise Brown 3:57.00 which beat her previous best time by some 13 minutes.

Allan Morrison ran the 26.2 mile course in 4:03 and Andrew Fletcher in 4:15.

Former resident Lynn Kynoch, now studying in the UK, dropped out after 17 miles because of a hip injury.

Veteran Ray Ming's time was unavailable.