Gebremariam and Yimer ÛÒ Male and Female Winners Moran finishes as First American Male Blanchette Wins Eighth Falmouth Wheelchair Title FALMOUTH, Mass. ÛÒ Running stride for stride down the final hill, 25-year-old Gebre Gebremariam crossed the finishline in 32:20, one second ahead of another 25-year-old Wilson Kwambai …
Read More »BAA’s Harvey, Hocking Cop USATF-NE 10K Titles
Shelburne Falls, MA, Saturday, August 14ÛÓBrian Harvey, 23, of Allston, won his second straight USATF-NE Championship in 31:55 while counterpart Lesley Hocking emerged from a spirited duel with Sara Donahue of the Greater Boston TC to win by 4-seconds in 37:34. As always, Crittendon Hill was key in separating the …
Read More »BAA Half Marathon Training Clinics Off to Impressive Start
FIRST B.A.A. HALF MARATHON TRAINING CLINIC DRAWS RECORD CROWD, NEXT CLINIC SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 13 The first of three B.A.A. Half Marathon Training Clinics took place at Marathon Sports in Boston on Monday, August 9, with an overflow crowd hosted in the Lenox Hotel on Boylston Street. The clinics are …
Read More »Brown & Willis Break 4:00 at CIGNA Falmouth Mile
FALMOUTH, Mass. — Russell Brown of Eugene, Ore. out-stepped Olympic silver medalist Nick Willis of New Zealand to claim the 2010 CIGNA Falmouth Mile title with a time of 3:59.61, narrowly outrunning Willis who finished in 3:59.73. For the fourth consecutive year the elite men broke four minutes. This …
Read More »TD Bank B2B 10K Women’s Record Shattered
ÛÓBob Fitzgerald With a starting temperature of 53 degrees that would rise 10 degrees in the next hour but with a cloud cover that kept the sun off runners, the men’s first mile went out in 4:30. At the very back of this lead pack was former champion Khalid …
Read More »Inaugural New Balance Scholastic Mile in Falmouth
ON AUG. 14 the CIGNA Falmouth Road Race will STAGE [institute] the New Balance Scholastic Mile, the first high school mile to be held PRIOR TO before the 15th annual Elite Falmouth Mile. The race is limited to boys and girls who competed for their high school teams in the …
Read More »Hancock’s Boston Marathon Fundraising Program Disperses $4.2 Million
John HancockÛªs 2010 Boston Marathon Fundraising Program Raises a Record $4.2 Million For Local Organizations Runners raise money for non-profits in 114th Boston Marathon BOSTON, July 30, 2010 — John HancockÛªs Boston Marathon Fundraising Program raised a record $4.2 million for Boston-area non-profit and community service organizations during the 114th …
Read More »Cigna Falmouth Companion Race to be Held in Afghanistan
A companion CIGNA Falmouth Road Race will be run in Afghanistan for the second time in three years. In 2008 Falmouth partnered with Megan Kennedy, U.S. Navy, while she was stationed at Camp Mike Spann, Afghanistan. This year, Maj. Don Chapin, who is a member of the Massachusetts Air National …
Read More »Past Champions Khannouchi, Ndereba Join Stacked B2B Field
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (July 27, 2010) ÛÓ A pair of running legends ÛÓ Catherine Ndereba and Khalid Khannouchi ÛÓ and an Ethiopian couple who are among the hottest road racers in the world, have joined an already talented field for the upcoming TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race …
Read More »Shut Out of Beach to Beacon & Falmouth—Run Gloucester!!
Run Gloucester! 7-Mile Road Race on Aug. 22 a Great Alternative for Runners Shut out of Popular Beach to Beacon or Falmouth Road Races GLOUCESTER, Mass. (July 22, 2010) ÛÓ The thousands of runners from throughout New England who didn’t get into the highly popular TD Bank Beach to Beacon …
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