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Boston Marathon

205 articles — The world’s oldest annual marathon, covered in nearly every issue of Marathon & Beyond. Hal Higdon’s many Boston pieces sit alongside Hopkinton-to-Boylston race reports, oral histories of the BAA, and reflections on the 1996 centennial.

Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 Dog Days at Boston "We seem to be living in dog days. From cyberspace to pet superstores, pop culture to haute couture, our love affair with the dog has reached… D. Chris Risker · 6 min read Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 We Suffer For You, Boston The Prudential Building is there. It's waiting. I take off down a hill and see a car abruptly stopped in the road in the cemetery, abandoned.… Alex M. Sewell · 3 min read Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 How The Boston Marathon Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket Michael Hughes Michael Hughes“Well, I usually don’t go this route. Usually I go down 880 and get off on the Alameda.” “Ah, the old unfamiliar-with-the-street excuse.… Kirk Flatow · 2 min read Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 Boston After Knee Surgery? The major media outlets prophesized a doom-and-gloom scenario for Boston 2007, saying "It could be the worst conditions ever experienced in the one-hundred-plus-year-old race."Photo courtesy of… Kevin Polin · 20 min read Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 260 to 3:09 I was the fat kid in my school. OK, maybe "fat" is a little harsh. I wasn't what doctors would term "morbidly obese" in this day… Chris Stores · 24 min read Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 Odeto Boston 1987 Then the Fens and Commonwealth, The H Club’s crimson flag9, Two turns and onto Boylston Street: Another finish in the bag. At either end of Mass.… Tony Rossmann · 2 min read Vol. 14, No. 1 · 2010 How to Better Televise a Marathon Ithink it was right about the time that Olympic gold medalist Sammy Wanjiru was bursting through the tunnel leading into the Bird’s Nest that I was… Tito Morales · 17 min read Vol. 13, No. 6 · 2009 My Most Unforgettable Marathon: November/December 2009 HKathy Fischer OPKINTON, MASSACHUSETTS, April 17, 2006—Chills ran up and down my spine as the moment I had so diligently prepared for the last five months… Gale Fischer · 14 min read Vol. 13, No. 6 · 2009 The Endless Run In October 2007, I was reading a magazine article about how Alberto Salazar had nearly died from a heart attack earlier in the year. What caught… Spencer Farrar · 26 min read Vol. 13, No. 6 · 2009 Mugging the ING The Boston Marathon dates back to 1897, and most runners strive to qualify to run it at least once. But the ING New York City Marathon… Fred Stewart · 6 min read Vol. 13, No. 5 · 2009 Running, Aging, And Human Potential Creed for the Ancient Marathoner 1. Honor the run. Train enough, but not too much. Don’t rely on yesterday’s experience for today’s challenge. Be true to… Dr. Walter Bortz · 4 min read Vol. 13, No. 4 · 2009 My Most Unforgettable Marathon (Vol. 13, No. 4) FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, May 19, 2007—Sometimes in the pursuit of a dream, what becomes most unforgettable are the people you cross paths with and the treasured… Bryce Gaudian · 17 min read M&B Vol. 13, No. 4 · 2009 The Pain Of (Paying For) The Marathon Ready or not, marathoners, the $200 entry fee has arrived. It’s true—for those runners lucky enough to gain entry into the Boston Marathon through the race’s… Don Allison · 20 min read Vol. 13, No. 2 · 2009 Falling For Boston There is no place that I would rather be than Boston in April. Boston 2003 was to be my third consecutive Boston Marathon. I managed to… Sheri Davich · 8 min read Vol. 13, No. 2 · 2009 In Pursuit of Ghosts and Unicorns “It may be springtime in the Rockies, but it’s Marathon time out here…” —from a poem by Bertha Kelley, mother of Johnny “The Elder” Kelley Ah,… Ron Mccracken · 15 min read Vol. 13, No. 1 · 2009 Boulder to Petoskey, One Step at a Time, Part 1 Let me start with this warning: reading books is a dangerous activity. A book about a transcontinental run, which I read almost three decades ago, planted… Paula J. Vaughan · 8 min read Vol. 12, No. 5 · 2008 “Like A Cat Chases Mice” ” Tom Osler Teaches Us That As We Age, There Is Glory and Fulfillment in the Chase Itself. by R i c hard E n g… Richard Englehart · 21 min read Vol. 12, No. 5 · 2008 From Austinto Boston On a map, the distance from Austin, Texas, to Boston, Massachusetts, is 1,969 miles. But as any marathoner knows, the distance is actually only 26.2 miles… David Barstow · 20 min read M&B Vol. 12, No. 5 · 2008 Van, Psy.D., And Bridget A. Murphy, Ph.D. » Ted with his son, Gary, and wife, Ruth, after the Olympic Trials marathon in Yonkers, New York, in 1956. pile, I found his Olympic uniform.… John P. Sull · 6 min read Vol. 12, No. 4 · 2008 Not So Bright Onthehtc Iwas lying on a floor mat in a high school gym in the small Oregon town of St. Helens, trying to get some much-needed shut-eye. At… Richard A. Lovett · 14 min read Vol. 12, No. 4 · 2008 Editorial: Vol. 12, No. 4 (2008) Making the Rounds On March 2, the 30th annual Kaiser Permanente Napa Valley Marathon was held under what can be described only as ideal conditions: cool… Richard Benyo · 15 min read Vol. 12, No. 3 · 2008 Deena Kastor Six weeks before she would run in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Women’s Marathon in Boston, Deena Kastor tuned up by winning the Gate River Run… Hal Higdon · 16 min read Vol. 12, No. 3 · 2008 Editorial: Vol. 12, No. 3 (2008) When More Is Actually More A theory in long-distance running that was popular in the 1970s has reemerged as a mantra of successful world-class runners today:… Richard Benyo · 12 min read Vol. 12, No. 2 · 2008 Crowds Part 2 of 2. ARGENTINA My major races arrived in pairs in 1959. The Pan American Games tryout marathons were separated by five weeks and the… Jim Green · 11 min read

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