Jacqueline Marsh (left) and Nina Kuscsik don’t really know each other, but they have history in common: They both ran the six-mile Crazylegs Mini Marathon in 1972, two of the 78 women to enter the first women-only road race in the world.

This morning, holding a vintage T-shirt from that first year as they posed for photos to mark the 40th anniversary of the race now known as the NYRR New York Mini 10K, they bantered like Read More

When Lindsey Scherf was growing up in Scarsdale, Edgewood Elementary School held a “Mile Day,” and in fifth grade she beat everyone—girls and boys alike—while breaking the school record. She soon joined the Westchester Track Club, coached by Mike Barnow, and became a dominant national-level junior runner; while competing for Harvard, she broke the American junior record for 10,000 meters when she ran 32:51.20. The horizon was nothing but bright, until a tangled misunderstanding over her refusal Read More