Corey Mullins, the St. Luke’s videographer who won the last two St. Luke’s D&L Racefest marathons, is headed to Boston.
Mullins, 27, will be running the 129th Boston Marathon on Monday.
A member of the St. Luke’s Media Production Services team, he qualified for the 2025 Boston race with his 2023 Racefest win in a time of 2 hours, 37 minutes, 2 seconds. He bettered that time last November, winning with a personal best 2:30:37.
“Boston will be my third marathon,” said Mullins, who won the St. Luke’s Half Marathon (coming up on April 27) in 2023 with a time of 1:11:01.
Mullins, from Danbury, CT, ran track and cross country in high school, and at Muhlenberg College, where he set the school record in the 5-kilometer.
“Boston is quite a different racecourse than St. Luke’s Racefest,” he said. “They are both net downhills, but once you hit the D&L trail, it was woods and 18 or 19 miles of quiet and solitude. In Boston, there is going to be a lot of cheering the entire way, and I don’t know how I’m going to react to that. I love running, but it’s my thing to get away from the world, so I try to keep it not too serious. That way I can escape and relax.”
Mullins understands the difficulty level of the Boston course and knows the legends surrounding “Heartbreak Hill,” an uphill climb at around Mile 20, and then the mile-long descent after it.
“In terms of goals, I’d probably add about five minutes for the course, so if I can go sub-2:40, I’d be happy,” Mullins said. “This first time, I just want to soak it all in. I don’t have any real expectations. The main thing is that I try to hit my paces and take it tactically and smoothly.”
He trained briefly under the tutelage of four-time U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier Budd Coates a few years ago and still uses the rhythmic breathing method Coates championed for improving performance.
Mullins isn’t sure if he wants to train for an Olympic Trials berth (either a 2:18 marathon or 1:03 half marathon).
“There’s a big gap between what I run now and that. I think that if I dedicate myself to it, it’s possible, but I’ve never seriously considered it. I like to go fast, but I’d really have to dial in. We’ll see how Boston goes and where I’m at.”
About St. Luke’s
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 20,000 employees providing services at 15 campuses and 300+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $3.4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital.
Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school campus. It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 45 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 400 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke’s, a member of the Children’s Hospital Association, opened the Lehigh Valley’s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.
SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune/PINC AI 11 times total and eight years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information. The Network is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers.
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Sam Kennedy
