Cod Marathon News Today

Trish Wheeler and her sister, Michelle Cronin, are charity runners from New Hampshire on the 261 Fearless team.

She ran her first marathon in 2005, and now hopes to be a top-10 woman at an international ultra.

Courtesy B.A.A. Running often gives opportunity to eccentric talents. America’s great marathons have been shaped by some unlikely movers and shakers—an image-conscious Romanian-born garment industry dealer; a quietly intellectual African-American grandson of slaves; a short-fused Scot from working-class Glasgow; a female CIA operative who never ran a step. Fred Lebow, Ted Corbitt, Jock Semple, and Gloria Ratti seem like unlikely founders, yet each was key in making the New York City and Bo...