Bill Rodgers

It is a form of whistling past the graveyard: 39,000 people attempting today's 26-mile, 385-yard New York City Marathon with the event's traditional display of good cheer throughout a difficult task. They will do this on the anniversary of a very...

It is a form of whistling past the graveyard: 39,000 people attempting today's 26-mile, 385-yard New York City Marathon with the event's traditional display of good cheer throughout a difficult task. They will do this on the anniversary of a very...

Could it be that the only bull market in Gotham is the New York City Marathon, that annual running-of-the-humans through Big Town's five boroughs? During her annual state-of-the-marathon luncheon to preview Sunday's 39th revival of the 26-mile, 385-yard...

Every runner has a story. Nobody knows this better than Bill Rodgers. Friday, he met Kathleen Jensen, a masters runner from Illinois who was running a marathon in her 42nd state, trying to complete the 50-state marathon challenge. He met Tim Neal of...

Mary Cullen didn't know much about the Manchester Road Race last year. She had never seen the course. She didn't know about the Highland Street hill. "That was definitely harder than I had anticipated," she said Thursday at the prerace press conference...

Bill Rodgers ran his first road race as a high school senior. So did Amby Burfoot. Both ran at the Manchester Road Race. They both won the high school division - Burfoot from Fitch High in Groton in 1963, Rodgers from Newington High in 1965. They would...

The Manchester Road Race generally draws runners wearing all kinds of outfits, but the group assembled at the end of Main Street before the race Thursday stood out. There were about 30 of them, most were barefoot, at a prerace warmup in honor of...

Steve Flanagan's claim to fame, his daughter said Thursday, was that he finished ahead of Bill Rodgers in the 1973 Manchester Road Race. "But I think that was when Bill Rodgers wasn't known as Bill Rodgers yet," Shalane Flanagan said. "It was just the...

Thanksgiving is a time for reunions, even at the Manchester Road Race. Bill Rodgers got a chance to get together and reminisce Thursday with his old Wesleyan roommate, Amby Burfoot. Alistair Cragg got to see old college rivals Simon Bairu and Ian...

On the original course map of the first Litchfield Hills Road Race, there was no hill. There were hills, of course, but the infamous Gallows Lane hill was missing. Bill Neller and the road race committee wanted the 1977 race to go around the hill, on...

Eddy Hellebuyck first traveled to the Litchfield Hills Road Race from Belgium in 1993. The following year, he won the race, then settled in the United States with his wife, Shawn. He has become an American citizen and a regular at Litchfield every June....