by Matthew Silvan | Jan 31, 2019 | Awesome, Inspiration
Madeline Adams was running the 6K ACC women’s cross country championship race in Cary, North Carolina. She was in her junior year at Boston College and was getting better and better. She thought she would have no problem completing the race. In fact, she thought...
by Heather Laskin | Apr 19, 2017 | Inspiration
A runner who saw off furious race officials to become the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon has repeated the feat 50 years later. Kathrine Switzer became a hero of the women’s rights movement in 1967 after she officially completed the then all-male race....
by Heather Laskin | Dec 17, 2016 | Awesome
Doyle Carpenter’s first job was when he was 12, as a caddy at a golf course. Too young to drive, he ran the three miles each way to and from the highway, where he hitchhiked back and forth to work. After a stint in the Army, he spent much of his life as a bricklayer....
by Heather Laskin | Nov 2, 2016 | Awesome
While training for his first-ever marathon, Will Reeve, son of the late “Superman” star Christopher Reeve, didn’t run into many problems. He did, however, encounter a tiny dog, which sank its teeth into his ankle when he was running across a private driveway in Maine....
by Heather Laskin | Sep 13, 2016 | Awesome, Inspiration
On Sunday, Fouad Baka of Algeria finished a 1500-meter race in just 3 minutes and 49.59 seconds at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. That’s fast, so fast that if Baka had finished with that time at that exact stadium in August, he would have beat out Matthew...
