A Boston nurse set out to spell 'Boston Strong' in a run to commemorate the Boston Marathon — but she spelled 'Boston Strog' instead

• After the Boston Marathon was postponed, Lindsay Devers, a nurse anesthetist in Boston, decided to complete a marathon-length run anyway.
• Using the running app Strava, she charted out a course that would spell "Boston Strong."
• Except she forgot the "n."
• Devers said the reception has been "remarkable," and that many people have enjoyed the humor of the situation.
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After the Boston Marathon was postponed to September, Lindsay Devers, a nurse anesthetist at Massachusetts General Hospital, decided she was still going to run 26.2 miles on Marathon Monday.

Runners had been asked to stay off the marathon course, Devers charted her own route on the running app Strava. She decided she was going to spell out "Boston Strong," a rallying cry popularized after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing.

Devers told Business Insider that she sent her intended course to "like six friends" and her marathon coach. But none of them caught the missing letter — the "n" in strong. Devers said that everyone — including herself — just assumed it was spelled correctly.

On April 20, the day that would've been the Boston Marathon, she ran the whole course three times so it would be around the same distance as the marathon. After she crossed her finish line, she checked her app to look at her run — and realized what was missing.

"I literally was like, 'Oh my God, do I have to run 26.2 miles again?'" Devers said.

After "Boston Strog" got written up in Boston.com, Devers said the moment went viral — and the reception has been "remarkable."

"I think there's been a lot of cool reception," Devers said. "And a lot of people have been like, 'Oh, you left out the 'n' in strong, because you're the 'n' in strong being a nurse."

Devers has been going in to the hospital four times a week, and she lives alone. When she's not at work, she's practicing social distancing, so running has become a major stress release.

"[Running's] like one of the only ways to kind of feel normal," Devers said.

Devers said she's heard from workers in the building where she finished her route, saying that when they return to the office they'll put an "n" up in the window for her.

She's still planning on running the marathon in September; she will be running in support of Dream Big, a non-profit that provides mentorship and sports equipment to low-income girls in the Boston community.

And Devers has even heard from some former patients after the story was reposted to the Boston Calendar, a local news and events site.

"Some lady commented on it, and she was like, 'Oh my gosh, she took care of me! You did my anesthesia a couple months ago!'"