We check-in with WBUR Reporter Yasmin Amer from Heartbreak Hill, on how spectators are experiencing the marathon differently this year.

This week, we're debriefing everything from the Boston mayoral race to social media woes to state spending.

While each running of the marathon is special in its own way, will this year's have a particular place in history? And will there be lessons learned for the next marathon in just a few months' time?

We speak with Paula Peters, or Sonk Waban, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and an independent scholar of Wampanoag history.

Conversations with our reporters from along the course, but a lesson in the shared history of today with a scholar in indigenous history.

We check in with reporter Alex Ashlock, who's been out on the course all day covering the race for WBUR.

We hear from Anna Brown-Jackson, Tarzan Brown's granddaughter. Anna tells us her grandfather ran his whole life, and though she was only seven or eight when he died and therefore never saw him run, she knew his legend, and to her, he was always both grandfather and Tarzan.

We speak to Norman Khumalo, the town manger of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, about what it was like to prepare for today's historic race.

We dive into the latest endorsements for mayor, social spending in Boston and in Washington, D.C. and how city officials are preparing for the Boston Marathon.

After last year's historic postponement, we check-in with reporter Alex Ashlock about how runners and city officials are preparing for the big day.