Nathan Sexton took his running career to the nation’s biggest stage Monday.
The local man battling a stage 4 brain tumor completed the Boston Marathon in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators, but the feat brought plenty of struggle for the 30-year-old husband and father.
“I think the good news is he finished and he’s happy about that,” Sexton’s father, Buddy Sexton, said. “He probably had the most difficult time to date. He had five seizures running it.”
Nathan Sexton completed the prestigious 26.2-mile race in 3 hours, 51 minutes and 46 seconds. After starting out with his typical blistering pace, his splits began slowing while he coped with the seizures during much of the race’s second half.
“I guess it was about 30 kilometers, he went into the medic tent,” Buddy Sexton said. “The nurse kind of wanted him to stay there, and then he got back and got over the seizure and started running again. I think it was a struggle.”