The Beach to Beacon 10K road race turned 10 in grand fashion Saturday. Three new champions were crowned. A wheelchair course record was lowered. The race founder, Joan Benoit Samuelson, ran through the streets of her youth. “It was great,” Samuelson said after arriving at fog-bound Fort Williams alongside Jacqueline Gareau, the respective 1979 and […]

Sheri Piers grabbed a long-sleeved shirt and headed to the starting line of the 14th Beach to Beacon 10K road race near Crescent Beach State Park. After a short warmup, that shirt was soaked with sweat. “I said, ‘I can’t believe this!’” Piers said. “‘It’s going to be hot today.’ And it was hotter than […]

Cool temperatures, no threat of rain or fog, cloud cover for sensitive skin, the gentlest of breezes, sunshine on the awards ceremony and two women breaking the old course record. The latest edition of the Beach to Beacon 10K road race had it all. “It was Lucky 13, what can I say?” said Joan Benoit […]

The rain never showed up and the humidity faded. The fourth annual Peoples Beach to Beacon 10K began like the previous ones – thousands of runners lined up on Route 77 ready to begin another Vacationland August day with a 6.2-mile run. But there were surprises, with unexpected runners named Evans, Christine and Andy collecting […]

It’s not every competition where 14-minute milers are greeted at the finish line with handshakes and high-fives from an Olympic gold medalist, but Joan Benoit Samuelson’s Beach to Beacon 10K is not your ordinary road race. Resplendent in red after running the 6.2-mile course herself alongside fellow marathon legends Bill Rodgers and Frank Shorter and […]

A few minutes before the start of the seventh Peoples Beach to Beacon 10K road race Sunday, as raindrops spattered thousands of runners gathered behind the starting line on rural Route 77, Joan Benoit Samuelson took the microphone. “The weather is a little bit different at the finish line,” she advised, “so you’ll have to […]

The scene just beyond the finish line of the 17th annual TD Beach to Beacon 10K resembled a bowling alley with human pins. Four runners had arrived but only North Yarmouth native Ben True remained on his feet. He bent over and clasped hands with each of the three Kenyans sprawled on the green turf […]

Ben True and Mary Keitany headline deep elite fields for the 20th annual race.