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 …
Read More »Tommy Leonard, From the Outside Looking in – An Essay
From the March/April issue of New England Runner magazine – by Bob Fitzgerald Holy Cow! I love to make people smile; that’s my thing. If I can give you that, then it makes my life worth living.”—TL “Holy Cow!” was a pet phrase freighted with delight and …
Read More »The 1st Falmouth Road Race Without its Founder – Remembrances of Tommy Leonard
From the MarchApril issue of NER following Tommy’s death – In Loving Memory of Tommy Leonard, Aug. 15, 1033 – Jan. 16, 2019 – Click below. Feat-TLTribute_0220_Opt
Read More »Beloved Running Icon Tommy Leonard Passes at 85
We got the news from longtime Tommy Leonard friend and benefactor Russ Pelletier of Falmouth that running’s “Goodwill Ambassador” Tommy Leonard took his last breath on Wednesday night. Not enough words available to illustrate what a prince of a man and worldly friend to the running community (especially during his …
Read More »Chowdah King Morseman Runs Best Evah Time at Cape Cod, Roecker Dodges The Raindrops
Chowdah King Moresman Runs Best Evah Time at Cape Cod (Photo: Bath, NY’s Bryan Morseman in the Sippewissett Hills at 19 Miles. All photos by FitzFoto/NERunner) It’s not like Bath NY’s Bryan Moresman, 33, hasn’t been here before—“here” being the Cape Cod Half Marathon on Saturday preceding the full …
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