DANVERS, MA — After eight years of running, a Danvers woman has joined a special club for people who have run on every continent. Read More
Solberg-Tapper already has her next adventure lined up. Next June she plans to run the Easter Island Marathon in the middle of the South Pacific. According to Marathon Tours and Travel, Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is “2,300 miles from land of any significance” and is “the most remote inhabited island on Earth.” Read More
When she read about a runner who had run seven marathons in seven different continents. MacAdam knew she had found her new challenge. “I was already an avid traveller, so it was the perfect opportunity to combine my two passions,” said MacAdam. Founded by Marathon Tours and Travel, the Seven Continents Club has welcomed more than 500 members from all over the world, each completing a marathon in all of the following continents: North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and Antarctica. Read More
It’s not often you meet someone who can say they’ve competed in marathons on all seven continents, until you meet Jasperite Lorraine Wilkinson. Read More
When it comes to marathons, California's Bill Higgins has nearly done it all. The Californian has run marathons on all seven continents; completed marathons in all 50 states; and is a six-star finisher of the Abbott World Marathon Majors. Read More
On her mind — and etched onto her bib — was Sarah Prunier, the long-time snow school instructor who died on Whistler Mountain in March. Suter helped train Prunier, an Ironman competitor, and said the tragedy hit her hard. She went to Facebook, seeking to raise money for Prunier's widower, Tyler, eventually going beyond her initial goal of $20 per mile. Read More
Boston reinforced the lesson I continue to learn time and time again: the marathon is the ultimate “tough love” teacher, and the lessons it teaches are humility, adaptability and don’t you dare give up-ity. Anyone can finish a race when they’re feeling good & running strong — but if you have a weakness the marathon will find it, exploit it and beat on it until you’re ready to throw in the towel. Read More
This globetrotting teacher is getting ready to run in her ninth county. NBC 5 On Your Side Story. Read More
“In Boston, everyone owns the marathon” — no one understands this sentiment better than the man who voiced it, Tom Grilk. Grilk is the Executive Director of the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.), the non-profit organization that has managed the Boston Marathon since the race’s inception in 1897. A Massachusetts native and one-time member of the legendary Greater Boston Track Club, Grilk joined the B.A.A. as a regular member in 1987 and rose through the ranks to become Executive Director in 2011. Read More
Mother Nature played an exceptionally fickle role at the 17th Antarctica Marathon and Half-Marathon held March 12 and 13, according to Marathon Tours & Travel, the Boston-based race and expedition organizer. Read More
Running through pain, loss and illness is nothing new to marathon runner Don Ross. But running downhill against 60-mile-an-hour winds in Antarctica in mid-March was like nothing Ross had experienced before. Read More
After all that, only Antartica was left. She signed up through Marathon Tours & Travel, an organization that offers travel packages to 42 marathons and half-marathons around the world. Read More
Back in the day, when they used to run an official, if small, ultramarathon between Kentucky’s largest city and its state capital, Bob Platt raced it. Although the distance is almost double that of a regular 26.2-mile marathon, Platt counts it as his Kentucky marathon. Read More
In 2014, Dean Pratt completed all six World Marathon Majors (Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, New York City) in a single calendar year, becoming one of only a handful of runners (and the first Kiwi) to do so. Read More
Nathan Haywood took up running long distances just eight months ago and this month will run his first ever marathon. That alone is a challenge on a big scale, but the fact he is just a couple of weeks away from ticking off his first marathon is just the start of it. The Invercargill 42-year-old will make his marathon debut in Antarctica in temperatures anywhere between -10 and -30 degrees. Read More
Canadians Stacey Collie and Rachel Rauwerda are travelling to the world’s southernmost continent to run the Antarctica Marathon. What makes the story even better is that the two are running the entire race in penguin onesies complete with a slide across the finish line. Read More
Aimee Shilling wants to run 40 marathons by the time she hits 40. She'll hit her goal in a big way in October, when she plans to run the final seven within one week. You read that right. Read More
A marathon is an arduous task at the best of times but throw in the changeable weather of the planet's most inhospitable continent and it becomes a real adventure. A group of Wairarapa runners are taking up that challenge by attempting the milestone distance on Antarctica next month. Read More
