One of our favorite events and usually slated around Halloween. The fright in 2019 was the weather for the unveiling of the marathon’s new coastal route. Gusting winds and driving rains made the going just a tad arduous, but so much better than what was to come in 2020.   …

Marathoners are a rugged, adventurous sort and the rugged beauty of the Mount Desert Island Marathon in Bar Harbor, ME elicits a great many smiles per mile -captured and replicated in NER via Maine native son and photog extradonnaire Kevin Morris.   The brainchild of RD Gary Allen of Crow …

2021 Boston Marathon Will Not Take Place in April B.A.A. to Seek Rescheduled Date in Fall 2021   BOSTON—The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) has announced that the 125th Boston Marathon, traditionally held on the third Monday in April—Patriots’ Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts—will be postponed until at least the fall …

The GMAA Green Mtn. Marathon in South Hero, VT and the Baystate Marathon in Lowell, MA both fall under the aegis of “by runners, for runners.”   The Green Mountain AA would have hosted its 50th event this Oct, the Greater Lowell Road Runners its 32nd. Green Mtn. cancelled and …

  Boston Marathon Fundraising Surpasses $400 Million Milestone  $32.1 million raised for charity programs through the 2020 Boston Marathon Virtual Experience  BOSTON –The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) has announced that $32.1 million was raised for 242 non-profit organizations surrounding the 2020 Boston Marathon and Boston Marathon Virtual Experience. With this …

The Grand Final of the NER Pub Series—the 19th annual Paddy’s Shillelagh Shuffle 3M in W. Newton, MA—would have played out this past Sunday, Oct. 18, and it did, but virtually in a 4-day virtual palooza.     Big doings in 2019 as the US Olympic Trials-bound Hackett twins went 1-2 …

Long a favorite of native New Yorkers, New Englanders (and others) Wineglass features a fast. flat and scenic point-to-point course through the southern Finger Lakes from Bath to Corning. It was originally slated for Oct. 4, 2020. (from the Nov/Dec 2019 issue of New England Runner)   Burks, Hagley Harness …

For the first time in 41 years, there will be no Foot Locker XC National Championships this Dec.   Organizers pulled the plug today in a tweet that cited the usual safety concerns but was scant on detail. There was hope that Foot Locker would persevere after the Nike Cross …

The setting is The Village in bucolic Litchfield, CT. The watering hole is situated at the top of Litchfield Common by the race start.   The late, great Tommy Leonard of Eliot Lounge fame and founder of the Falmouth Road Race is listening to the confession of Litchfield streaker Billy …

Two-time steeplechase Olympian Donn Cabral, a native of Glastonbury, CT, will join a host of regional elite runners (30 men & 30 women) to compete at the New England’s Finest Throwdown 5K road race Saturday, Sept. 26 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.   Olympian Donn Cabral winning the 40th …