SLIDESHOW: Desisa, Rotich, McFadden, and Hug Win 119th Boston Marathon

Runners trained in historic feet of snow leading up to the 119th running of the Boston Marathon, and weather played a factor in Monday’s race too. It was a cold, rainy day for Marathon Monday.

Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa, 25, won the men’s race 2:09.17 hours. Desisa was the winner of the Boston Marathon in 2013, the year the bombs went off at the finish line. in 2013, he presented his winner’s medal back to the city.

“This medal is mine to keep,” he said this year.

Kenyan runner Caroline Rotich won the women’s race in a time of 2:24:55.

For third consecutive year, Tatyana McFadden, a paralympian, won the women’s wheelchair race. Her 26th birthday is today, April 21. McFadden, who was born in Russia but adopted by an American woman, raced for Team MR8, honoring bombing victim Martin Richard, who was just 8 years old when killed in 2013.

Marcel Hug won the men’s wheelchair race.

Because of the rain, spectators along the Framingham part of 26.2 mile course, were only a couple of individuals deep this year.

Almost 30,000 runners participated in the 119th running of the Boston Marathon.

To see the official results of Framingham runners, click here.

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Slideshows courtesy of Cummings Photography, who was at the 6 mile moment in downtown Framingham and Framingham student C. Fishman, who was just after mile marker 5 in Framingham.