Kansas City Sports Commission President Kathy Nelson says it will learn from Boston Marathon attacks for the upcoming KC Marathon

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• The Kansas City Marathon might look different after the Boston bombings.

On Friday night, Kansas City Sports Commission President Kathy Nelson will present metro marathon runner and triathlete Kelly Dippold the commission’s Sportswoman of the Year award. It will cap what was surely a trying week for Dippold, who finished the Boston Marathon on Monday not long before two bombs went off near the finish line and killed three people.

On October 19 – six months and four days after the attacks – the commission will host its annual Waddell & Reed Kansas City Marathon, an event that averages 10,000 distance runners. Nelson says they’re going to learn all they can from Boston before then.