Meb in Town with Boston on His Mind

Meb Keflezighi, coming off his win at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trial, was at the Lenox Hotel on Friday.

Does Meb Keflezighi still think about Boston? What could’ve been in 2010 had a leg injury not slowed his training? Or, perhaps, what almost was in 2006, when he finished third, just two-and-a-half minutes behind eventual four-time winner, Kenyan Robert Cheruiyot. “Do I still think about Boston?” Keflezighi asks back Friday morning while in a conference room at Back Bay’s Lenox Hotel, a mere few hundred feet from the Boylston Street, blue-and-yellow finish line. “Let me show you something.” Keflezighi reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone. He immediately flips to a self-taken photograph of Kenmore Square’s iconic “Citgo” sign, well-known to Boston marathoners as the one-mile-to-go mark. “That’s the view from my hotel room,” he …

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