Photo: Melissa (left) and Eileen (right) Habelow at the finish of the Boston Marathon. Monday’s BAA Marathon was no walk in the park for the Habelows from Belmont. The pair – mom Eileen and eldest daughter Melissa – ended up battling daylong drenching downpours, a steady headwind and temperatures in the 40s for nearly seven […]
Photo: On a race day that proved to be a challenge for the elite and the back of the pack runners, 18 Belmont residents gutted out the 26.2 miles from bucolic Hopkinton to bustling Boston in the 121st running of the BAA Marathon on Monday, April 17. Despite warm conditions – temperatures topped out in […]
Photo: Charlie Conroy at Heartbreak Hill. (Courtesy photo) The unofficial motto of the US Postal Service is “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” In a slightly modified version of the postman’s code, Belmont resident Charlie Conroy didn’t allow the wind, […]
Photo: The BAA Marathon. It’s likely Wolfgang Ketterle will be the fastest Nobel Prize winner participating in Monday’s 119th Boston Athletic Association Marathon, but the 57-year-old academic could have another impressive distinction; first Belmontian to cross the finish line on Boston’s Boylston Street. The MIT professor of physics, who with Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics […]
Your neighbors are a quick lot! Belmont runners produced some outstanding results at Monday’s 118th Boston Athletic Association Marathon, the historic annual 26.2 mile trek from Hopkinton to Boston’s Copley Square to celebrate Patriots’ Day, April 21. Of the 42 who finished the race, 40 percent, 17, ran under four hours, a great accomplishment for […]