Looks back across more than a century of marathon and ultramarathon running — from Pheidippides and the founding of the modern marathon at the 1896 Athens Olympics, through the post-war American boom, to the Salazar/Beardsley era and the modern explosion. The Marathon & Beyond archive is unusually rich in long-form running history.
Pregnancy And Beyond Kasie EnmanFeature20144 min Adventures of a world-champion mom. hen I found out I was pregnant in the fall of 2009, I was coming off a (ercmine 11th-place…
Love That Dirty Water Bill DonnellyFeature201424 min Ah, yes! Back in the day in the Back Bay. as the origin of the Charles River, which then meanders some 80 miles…
Going Far, Part 9 Joe HendersonFeature201414 min […] hallways, at meals, and on the streets outside. In 1999, I attended a race directors’ conference in Portland, sitting on a couple…
I’m Impressed With Everybody Dan HorvathFeature20145 min […] a national age-group level in events such as the 1,500 and 5,000. He trains by running gobs of miles and has many…
Moscow 2013 M. Nicole NazzaroFeature201418 min Covering the marathon. here are very few sports that you can both participate in as an athlete and [oe as a journalist at the…
Running The R.O. Zoie CliftFeature201416 min Personal observations from inside the race. official trail ultra in the state and also the first to use the Mississippi River levee as a…
Following My Grandfather’S Footsteps Chuck StoneFeature201417 min <4 Stone marker with Edward Marshall's name. could someday run the same route within the same time limits. I had done some longer…
My Most Unforgettable Marathon (Vol. 17, No. 6) Cynci CalvinFeature20139 min My Most Unforgettable Marathon (And what | learned from it.) thon was unforgettable: sadly, tragically memorable. It was also…
X-Country Robert ReedFeature201321 min A short story. little dribbles. But he mentioned having once been a teenager in the hill country—a stretch of poor farms and limestone bluffs about an…
Bernard Gomersall Remembers The ‘60S Roger RobinsonFeature201311 min “T tried cricket, football [soccer], tennis—but I was absolute rubbish.” (He emphatically pronounces it “abb-sloot roobish.”’) “I wanted to do something well…
My Most Unforgettable Year Of Marathon Running Doug KurtisFeature201326 min (And what | learned from it.) 5:20, let alone string together 26 of them. This is what it takes to…
