Carlos Arredondo, 57, became a recognizable face for his heroism immediately after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that claimed three lives and injured hundreds more. He was the man in the white cowboy hat who pulled victims to safety and wrapped mangled limbs near the finish line on Boylston Street. Five years later, he is running the race for the [...]
At this point in their lives, it's fair to say Alex and Jamie Schneider tell the world their story with their legs rather than their voices. The 27-year-old identical twins from Great Neck, N.Y. have a form of autism so severe that they're completely non-verbal and require 24-hour-a-day care. However, in running shoes and out on the roads, they're making [...]
There's no better way to test-drive a heart than to run a marathon. Anna Borghesani, a 41-year-old scientist and part-time fitness instructor from the United Kingdom ran the 2014 London Marathon just 15 months after open-heart surgery. Immediately upon entering this world, doctors didn't think Borghesani, who was born in Italy, would survive. Because she had pulmonary stenosis, a congenital heart [...]
It's never too late to set a world record. Yes, even if you're a centenarian. They weren't the fastest athletes at the 2018 USA Track and Field Masters Indoor Championships, but Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins, 102, and Orville Rogers, 100, certainly stole the show. Hawkins, who didn't take up running until she was 100, set a pending world record in the [...]
These days, it's not unheard of for people to raise a substantial sum of money for charity by running across an entire country. However, what Australian ultra-marathon athlete and former politician Pat Farmer did is completely astounding. In 2012, the then 50-year-old ran 13,000 miles from the North Pole to the South Pole in less than a year. That means [...]
Jared Blank harnessed his strong legs, his robust lungs and his diagnosis of dyslexia to successfully complete the World Marathon Challenge, an epic 7-day trip around the world that gives participants the chance to run seven marathons on seven continents in a week's time. But, dyslexia as a benefit? You bet. "I realized when I was running, dyslexia was what [...]
If you think running up 86 flights of stairs is pure hell, you're absolutely right. However, every year, thousands apply to run up the 1,576 stairs of the Empire State Building in a lung-searing, leg-dragging race called the Empire State Building Run-Up. I competed last year in the media heat. Upon hitting the stairs that are dispersed on a 65% [...]
Hector Picard doesn't have arms. Kerry Gruson cannot use her legs. Together, the two inspired each other to cross the finish line of Sunday's Miami Marathon and qualify for the 2019 Boston Marathon. The adaptive athletes covered the 26.2-mile course in 6 hours and 39 minutes. Picard, 51, an Ironman finisher who lost both of his arms after being electrocuted [...]
Georgia Cleland was a major catalyst for the shift in endurance athletes competing for reasons far beyond themselves. At 2 years old, she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and a 55 percent chance of surviving, so her father, Bruce, launched Team in Training in 1988, and utilized the New York City Marathon to raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma [...]
Jared Blank probably missed being at Levi’s Stadium Dec. 1 to watch his beloved University of Southern California Trojans win the PAC-12 Championship in a revenge victory over the Stanford Cardinals - but he had other things to do that day. He had to go for a run. But not just any run. A training run for a marathon. And [...]