Their first meeting came after the 1972 Olympics. At those games in Munich, America’s young gun, Steve Prefontaine, took fourth place in the Olympic 5000 meters while New Zealand’s Rod Dixon took home a bronze in the 1500. For the man called Pre, finishing off the podium was a bitter disappointment. Check that. The guy…
Leading in to this year’s Boston Marathon, I filmed a few of my favorite Boston Marathon stories for our friends at Hylands. Dave McGillivray In this episode, I share how it all started for Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray. Dick and Rick Hoyt In this episode, I recount the incredible story of…
Two people I was greatly looking forward to chatting with at the Boston Marathon for Postcards from Boston, were Roseann Sdoia and Adrian Broca, two exceptional people with incredible stories to tell who embody Boston Strong Check out my story on Roseann: And here’s the Hyland’s Postcards from the Finish Line feature on Adrian: …
It was an honor to get to chat with some amazing women for our Postcards from Boston interviews at the Boston Marathon. I think you’ll find these teammates from the Hyland’s Women’s Marathon Team inspirational, and they definitely will spark your running fever! Jessica Leonard and Nancy Heydinger Teammates on the Hyland’s Women’s Boston Marathon team,…
Boston Marathon Interviews filmed at the marathon expo, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 14 – 16. Watch interviews LIVE on Facebook! Caroline Rotich and Ryan Bolton 2015 Boston Marathon champion Caroline Rotich and her coach, Olympic triathlete Ryan Bolton talked about Caroline’s road back to the starting line after…
John Kelly ran his first marathon in 2013 at the Marine Corps Marathon, blew up, and still ran 3:38. Just recently he won the infamous Barkley Marathons, which this year was approximately 130 miles long with about 68,000 feet of ups and downs. John’s story of falling asleep during the last of the five laps…
Classics: From our archives, a classic interview from 2011 with legendary American runner Ryan Hall. We chatted with Ryan Hall right after he ran his marathon PR of 2:04:58 at the Boston Marathon. Ryan grew up in a family where everyone was an endurance athlete. But that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes…
Sarah Reinertsen is the first single-above-knee amputee woman to finish the Ironman World Championship, starred on the Amazing Race, and is a huge part of the Ossur/CAF sports clinics that are coming to the Nike campus on April 8th. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance …
Calum Neff ran the 1,500 through high school and college, but his running really blossomed after he became a dad. In 2016 he made it into the Guinness Book of World Records by pushing one daughter in a jogger through a 1:11:27 half marathon and his other daughter to a 2:31:21 marathon. Subscribe to Babbittville…
Camille Herron is a three-time US Olympic marathon trials qualifier who has won 20 marathons, loves to drink beer while setting ultramarathon records and, most importantly, ran 2:48:51 in a Spiderman costume! Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on…