Dick Beardsley is a best selling author and champion – in running and in life. Although his competitive running career as an elite athlete ended in 1988, Dick is still the 3rd fastest American born runner in the marathon distance, running 2:08:53 in the 1982 Boston Marathon. Best known for his 1982 Boston Marathon “Duel in the […]

Mimi is an Ultra runner, multiple world record holder and mother. Having taken up running at the age of 36 she very quickly discovered that it was the Ultra distances that she excelled at.  Running has given Mimi the confidence and ability to believe in herself and she is now a formidable competitor with a strong […]

It all started when he found out about a race called Badwater. This was in 2006 sometime when training for a marathon. James only had a vague awareness of people running longer distances than “The Marathon” and thought this was silly, but when he found out about a race of 135 miles, uphill and through the […]

A New Hampshire native, Matt became a runner at the age of eleven, after running the last mile of the 1983 Boston Marathon with his father (who had run the whole thing) and his two brothers. By that time Matt was already a writer (specifically a comedic poet), having declared his intention to make his […]