Roughly 28,000 runners braved the chilly temperatures this weekend and laced up their shoes for the 31st Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Nearly 12,000 people took part in the 26.2 mile race from downtown Minneapolis to the State Capitol in St. Paul on Sunday. A Kenya man was the first to cross the finish line and a woman from Oregon claimed the women's title.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan claimed on a nationally syndicated radio show that he had run marathons. His personal best time? Under three hours, the Wisconsin congressman said. But he only ran one marathon – Grandma's Marathon in Duluth in 1990 – in 4 hours, 1 minute. Ryan says he just misspoke. Runners howled. “No one confuses a 4:01 with a sub-3. No one,” said one comment on Runner's World magazine.

The city is providing tap water at several stops along the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon route. The city says municipal water is clean, tastes great and is far less expensive and better for the environment than bottled water.