Homeless runners turning lives around
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Rebecca Kelly used to run from her problems. Now, she runs in an effort to solve them. Kelly took her first drink at 14, soon entering the first of what would be many rehabilitation stints. She's been forced to live on the streets, once got kicked in the face by a male attacker, been completely broke more times than she cares to remember.
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Thousands of runners of all ages and abilities take to the streets of Glasgow for the Great Scottish Run.
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The Leukemia &#38; Lymphoma Society's Team in Training surveyed its runners and found that one of the primary reasons people join a marathon training group is to meet other people.
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Theresa Cibulka hit Mile 18 of the New York City Marathon last year and felt as if she would never reach the finish line. She could feel the pain in her cramped legs. She was ready to quit.
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Stonehill College coach Karen Boen encourages her cross country runners to develop expectations for themselves, then she and her staff work to help the runners reach their goal. Junior Keith Gill of Brockton and senior Kelly Chaisson of Walpole are good examples of what can be achieved.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  As a deep freeze grips the Milwaukee area with a stretch of bone- chilling temperatures, a network of homeless shelters continues its efforts to leave no one out in the cold.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.âOlder runners are improving their performance more quickly than younger runners, a Yale study has found, raising new awareness of the ability of older athletes and the benefits of exercise for people 50 and older.
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Two years ago, questions swirled about whether US long-distance running could be saved, and how? Coming into today&#39;s New York City Marathon, the answer is a resounding yes.
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The thousands of runners who step up to the starting lines of marathons each year may be following in the footsteps of our earliest human ancestors.
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By MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7417 or wilsonm@courierpress.com  The quiet "thank you" of a shy bicyclist went unnoticed Tuesday afternoon, but only because the volunteers cleaning up part of the Pigeon Creek Greenway trail were hard at work.
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Winners of April's Boston Marathon will go home a little richer this year, as chief sponsor John Hancock Financial Services yesterday announced an increase in prize money.
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Organized  clubs and casual groups offer runners the chance to socialize, and to  improve.
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Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the Depression, when homeless people were called Bowery bums and fresh air was the solution to just about all ills.
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At a Christmas fund-raiser, Salva Dut brought along a small water pump to illustrate his mission of helping isolated villages in southern Sudan tap into an underground treasure: running water.
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It was a day to seek refuge on the Rowley Mile here yesterday, not only from the showers but also from the results. There was a 22-1 winner in the first race of the Cambridgeshire meeting, and the 11-1 chance Nights Cross took the second.
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Millions of years before headphone-wearing joggers clotted the streets of America, the development of the ability to run played a crucial role in the evolution of early humans, according to new research.
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A former cancer sufferer is today expected to begin his bid to run four half-marathon races within the space of 24 hours.