adidas and Boston Marathon Announce Contract Extension Boston, Mass. – adidas and the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) are celebrating their 20-year partnership with a contract extension that keeps the brand as the Official Supplier and Outfitter of the Boston Marathon for years to come.  Looking forward, adidas and the B.A.A. …

Running The Numbers Possible answers to improbable questions about the Boston Marathon Watch as MIT math major Keone Hon uses some creative math (and very long Fermi equations) to figure out unknowable facts about the Boston Marathon. By Dina Rudick/Boston Globe Staff http://multimedia.boston.com/tn/17/sports.htm?bclid=1497991385&bctid=19575764001

4-time Boston Marathon Champion Bill Rodgers to run again on Patriots’ Day Boston, Mass. – Bill Rodgers, whose four Boston Marathon victories between 1975 and 1980 helped popularize the sport of marathon running in the United States, plans to be on the starting line in Hopkinton once again on April …

Publicans – Win A Comped Entry to the Squantum 5M – Race No. 4 in the NER Pub Series –  on June 18. To contest amongst a rabid field, answer the following correctly: Squantum 5M Race Director JJ Larner used to bartend at the internationally renowned Eliot Lounge. What widely …

Top Scholastic Athletes Announced for Inaugural B.A.A Invitational Mile Milers from eight cities and towns along the Boston Marathon course will face off the day before Patriots’ Day Boston, Mass. – Almost three dozen top scholastic milers will compete in the new B.A.A. Invitational Mile on April 19, the Boston …

HE WIND AT THEIR BACKS AND HISTORY ON THE HORIZON THE LEGACY OF THE SUB-FOUR-MINUTE MILE   Crown Features Syndicate‰ã¢   Nearly 55 years have passed since a great barrier in modern athletics was surmounted: the first sub-four-minute mile run by an Oxford University medical student named Roger Bannister (now …

For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 9, 2009 Olympians, Record-Holders to Line Up for Inaugural B.A.A. Invitational Mile 19 top professional milers, local scholastic stars will race the day before 113th Boston Marathon Boston, Mass. —  Six Olympians, a trio of national-record holders and a three-time U.S. champion are among the …

                                    NER Pub Series XIII is off to a “bang up” start this year, with our highest participation after 2 races in the history of the series (221). The next race is the Irish Village 5 Miler, Saturday, May 9th, at the Irish Village in West Yarmouth. Applications can be …

It turned out to be a fantastic day for racing and post-race activity at Doyle’s as the forecasted weather front finally pushed in and the sun broke through right before the race start in Franklin Park. Despite the challenging nature of the route’s first two miles, the men’s race went …

Pub Series Women’s Standings After Race No. 2, the 12th Annual Doyle’s Emerald Necklace 5M, Jamaica Plain, MA, Sunday, April 5                           Overall (Top 50 Score) 1. Lara Johnson/Mimi Fallon                        98 3. Sarah Healy                                               93 4. Meredith Leenhouts                                  85 5. Marge Bellisle, RI                                     83 6. Erin Wyner                                               75 7. Liane …