No way,” I replied. “The only way I could qualify is if I was competing as an 80-year-old man.” I was joking. I’m 42, and, ...

At 21, she won the first marathon she had ever attempted in Stockholm, then set a personal best — 2:22:10 — later that year in Cape Town. That’s the fastest time run by any of the women in ...

Since 1972, runners have laced up to take on the Houston Marathon in the brisk chill of a January morning. Among them ran ...