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2024: The Year in Review
VOLUME 26 | Reflecting on 2024, the 26.2 Foundation celebrates key achievements, from the International Marathon Center to global programs shaping the future of marathoning.
Team Inspire Expands its Reach to the TCS NYC Marathon!
VOLUME 25 | Team Inspire takes on the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon, fundraising for the 26.2 Foundation. Runners from across the U.S. and beyond unite for a great cause.
Boston Winners' Wreath Ceremony turns 40
VOLUME 24 | The olive wreath tradition represents the ideals for which the citizen-soldiers fought in Marathon over 2,500 years ago: freedom, individual dignity, and the power of democracy.
Celebrating 100 Boston Marathon Starts
VOLUME 23 | April 15th marks the 100th time that Boston Marathon runners have begun the 26.2-mile race in Hopkinton, MA.
A Look Back On Great Progress in 2023
The past 12 months have been pivotal for us, and I believe we’ll come to look back on 2023 as a genuine turning point in our journey towards a Marathon Center.
Read Our November 2023 Newsletter
VOLUME 22 | Read about the education programs planned for the new International Marathon Center, the Hiller 5k, and a recent presentation we made to the National Hellenic Society.
Measuring the Impact of an International Marathon Center
VOLUME 21 | Management guru Peter Drucker famously asked, ‘If you can’t measure it, how can you manage it?’ Agreed. But what if ‘it’ doesn’t quite yet exist?
Saving the Boston Marathon
VOLUME 19 | “A toxic combination of greed, neglect, and an arrogant opposition to prize money,” is how Boston Globe reporter Brian MacQuarrie describes the atmosphere around the race in the early 1980s – and then explains how it was saved by miracles (‘The Forgotten Story of How the Boston Marathon Almost Collapsed’, Globe Magazine, 4/12/23). As the race director in 1983 and 1984, the 26.2 Foundation’s Tim Kilduff had a front-row seat. We asked him, what would he add to the story?
Commonality and Competition
VOLUME 18 | This coming April 17th marks not only Patriot’s Day and so, the 127th running of the Boston Marathon, but also 100 years since the epic race’s start in….Ashland.