Former Louisville cross country and track and field All-American Wesley Korir won the Boston Marathon Monday in a heat-slowed unofficial time of 2 hours, 12 minutes, 40 seconds.

Korir, who has won the Los Angeles Marathon twice and has finish second and fourth in the Chicago Marathon, brought home the title among a field of 22,426 runners Monday.

Last year, Geoffrey Mutai ran the fastest marathon in history, but he dropped out of the race in mile 18 due to cramping from the excessive temperatures. But Korir kept going. He battled the 80-degree heat, and he won the second-slowest Boston race since 1985.

Korir, who is married to former UofL runner Tarah McKay, is working on making an Olympic team for the 2012 games.

He and his wife are also working to build funds for the Kenyan Kids Foundation, a charity they founded with the aim of empowering that country's youth through education, access to health care, and sustainable farming. "I'm going to help the people back home with my winnings, with my opportunity of being who I am right now, through the media, through everything," Korir told Running Times Magazine.

Korir's $150,000 prize from the Boston Marathon will no doubt be put to good use in his charity.

"Running is not my destiny," he told Running Times earlier this spring. "Running is just a stepping stone of what God's prepared for me. God has put something so amazing for me out there. This running, it's not Wesley--it's not the end of me. God has put in my heart helping the poor of Kenya."