Boston Marathon

From Boston to Weston, to New Hampshire, runners came together on Saturday. “This year means a lot more for us,” said Helen Zhao, of the Lingzi Foundation. Like everything else in 2020, The Lingzi Dream Dash 5K went virtual this year. At around 9 a.m. Saturday hundreds of runners all started the race at the same time. The 5K honored…

Spectators won’t see the millions of people they’re used to seeing in the Boston Marathon this year. Some things, however, haven’t changed. “It’s not a marathon without a cowbell,” said Joe LeBlanc of the Run Club of Malden, as he rang his cowbells from the sidelines. Something else that hasn’t changed are the supporters on the marathon...

The Boston Marathon finish line has seemed a lot further off than 26.2 miles this year – as the pandemic pushed the race off to September, and then went virtual. For many charity runners, like Tim Sullivan of Marblehead, the race itself became less important than the fundraising efforts.  “Usually the team in its entirety will raise close to $1.5&#...

Missing: Boston’s raucous crowds and smiles for miles. Still there, sort of: Wellesley College’s iconic “scream tunnel” and the thunderous cheers along the finish line on Boylston Street. The 124th running of the Boston Marathon is finally underway, but virtually — meaning real runners are doing the hard work, and an interactive mobile app is helpi...

The Boston Marathon will have a very different look and feel in 2020 after its 124th running was canceled and it was moved online because of the danger presented by the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Marty Walsh and the Boston Athletic Association announced Thursday that the race, which had been originally planned for April 20, had been postponed to S...

The Boston Marathon won’t be run this year, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Thursday, calling it unfeasible for public health reasons as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hit Massachusetts. The race will be replaced with virtual events. “There’s no way to hold the usual race format without bringing large numbers of people into clo...

As of now, the Boston Marathon is still on for Sept. 14. But media reports this week suggested the race is in jeopardy, given the still-raging global pandemic. Should organizers cancel the marathon, the runners would not be the only disappointed ones. The nonprofits that rely on the marathon, many of them based in Greater Boston, would see yet anot...

It remains to be seen whether the Boston Marathon will take place this year because of the coronavirus outbreak. The race was delayed in April, shortly after the outbreak, and rescheduled for September 14. Many thought that would be enough time to get the virus under control, but with the rescheduled marathon now with four months away, concern...

Mayor Marty Walsh said he’s “hopeful” that the Boston Marathon will go on for it’s rescheduled date in September, but is eyeing the cancellation of the Berlin Marathon in the meantime. Walsh stopped short of saying decisively that the marathon will, in fact, be held on Sept. 14 when asked about it Wednesday. He noted that or...

Kelly Ashton of Wilmington, Massachusetts, had a marathon finish Monday. She ran six-mile loops in her town. And although this is not quite how she planned her Marathon Monday, without the thousands of spectators cheering her on in Boston, she says she felt compelled to run. “My neighbors and my fiancée were awesome. They made it feel like th...

A surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital who was supposed to run the Boston Marathon Monday is involved in a different kind of marathon, treating coronavirus patients in the ICU.

“It All Starts Here.” The motto is bannered on the Hopkinton website, laid into the floor of the Marathon Elementary School, painted on a sign that sends Boston Marathon participants off on their way to Copley Square. Since 1924, this 300-year-old town serendipitously located 26.2 miles west of Boston has been the starting line for the world’s most...

On One Boston Day, seven years to the day that changed the city forever, a Massachusetts family is giving back to the place that means so much to them. Brothers Paul and JP Norden each lost a leg during the marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. Paul spent two weeks at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. “What they…