Rachel Doucette is running the Boston Marathon for the Brigham Stepping Strong Team and her fiancé, a disabled Coast Guard ...

Stan and Elena Chokler are running the Boston Marathon for "those fighting to walk again, to regain their independence." ...

The first running of the Boston Marathon was from Metcalf’s Mill in Ashland to the Irvington Oval in Boston on April 19, 1897. Women were not allowed entry into the Boston Marathon until 1972.

THERE WILL BE TWO GRAND MARSHALS AT THIS YEAR’S BOSTON MARATHON. TWO MEN WHO CHANGED THEIR SPORT TOGETHER. BOB HALL WAS THE FIRST WHEELCHAIR ATHLETE EVER TO COMPLETE THAT RACE. 50 YEARS AGO THIS ...

DOING JUST THAT. GOT MY RUNNING SHOES. TRAINING FOR A MARATHON IS NOT EASY. QUALIFYING FOR THE BOSTON MARATHON IS EVEN HARDER. IT’S SO DAUNTING WHEN YOU’RE STARTING OUT AND RAISING THOUSANDS ...

SHE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS TIME AROUND. THE BIG DAY IS ALMOST HERE FOR MANCHESTER’S AMANDA QUINLAN. IT’S GOING TO BE HERE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT. I’M EXCITED. I LOVE ...

SARAH MARIA. THIS IS A PRETTY BIG PROJECT HERE AT MGH. YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THE TWO TOWERS IS TAKING SHAPE, AND PART OF THE TEAM, ONE OF THE PEOPLE ON THE TEAM THAT’S MAKING ALL OF THIS HAPPEN ...

Anthony Yu, a Tufts senior studying international relations and economics, grew up watching his mother, Elaine Yu, run ...

Good morning. I’m Chris Morris, the Globe’s Food and Travel editor, guest-writing today’s newsletter (Ian Prasad Philbrick will be back tomorrow). Today we’re saluting those brave enough ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — The 129th Boston Marathon is there weeks away. Every year, tens of thousands of athletes make the 26.2 mile journey from Hopkinton to Copley Square. This year, Cranston ...

10th anniversary of Boston Marathon bombing marked with somber ceremony With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston ...

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