Cancer Staging. Staging is the process of finding out how much cancer is in a personâs body and where itâs located. Itâs how the doctor determines the stage of a personâs cancer. For most types of cancer, doctors use staging information to help plan treatment and to predict a personâs outlook (prognosis). Although each personâs situation is different, cancers with the same stage tend to have similar outlooks and are often treated the same way.
As the other answers, the distance of Boston marathon is 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers, just like all other marathon. But you need run really fast to be qualified to take part in Boston marathon, that will take a long time, that would be years long.
Finishing times for marathons (26.2 miles) range from a little over two hours for world-class, elite marathoners to 8+ hours for walkers. In terms of average marathon times, the median marathon finishing time in 2015 for men in U.S. marathons was 4:20:13 (9:55/mile pace), according to Running USA. The median finishing time for women was 4:45:30 (10:53/mile pace). Before running your marathon, it's definitely helpful to have an estimate of your marathon finishing time, so you know how to pace yourself properly.