The world’s most legendary marathon is less than a week away! As a Boston-based company, the Runkeeper team has got you covered for your Boston Marathon race day, with advice for both spectators and runners. So without further adieu, here are a few tips from our team to yours.  The Best Place to Watch the […]

A few weeks ago I ran my first Chicago Marathon—and qualified for the Boston Marathon. That morning began like every other race morning: with a lot of nervous excitement and quite a bit of doubt. It was my seventh marathon in six years and my seventh attempt at running a Boston Qualifying (BQ) time. I […]

Everyone has their own story about why they run. My story begins with fear. When I was in eighth grade, both of my grandmothers died of cancer within two months of each other. Last year, my wonderful cousin died of melanoma, at the age of twenty-two. The thought of losing anyone else I love to […]

I come from a long line of runners.  Well, maybe not really a long line, but I always enjoyed my dad and his brothers reliving their road race stories after a family “fun run.” For me, it started with my one-mile sixth-grade turkey trot. My mom mapped out the route in the minivan and my […]

When Josh Warren, of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, first asked me to guide at Boston 4 years ago, I of course said yes. But shortly after agreeing, I also became the most nervous and anxious I’d been in a long time. I instantly started sweating, and I hadn’t even laced […]

Nothing like some spoilers in the headline. But really. I could tell you I wasn’t a nervous, miserable wreck before it all started but that would be a lie. The rain forecast amplified that anxiety about 10 times. The good thing is I don’t actually remember what all that feels like. All I remember is […]

I originally started running for the same reason that a lot of people do—because I was coerced. In my hometown high school back in rural upstate New York, choosing not to participate in organized sports essentially branded one as an outcast. Since I wasn’t coordinated enough for anything besides running, and since the cross-country team […]

I wasn’t planning on running the Boston Marathon this year. As the CEO of a scaling startup and the father of a one-year-old son, I am lucky I have time to eat lunch every day, let alone log the miles required to train properly for a marathon. But when a number opened up and I […]