Good Running News of the Week

Hello, and welcome back to another edition of Good Running News of the Week. We at New York Road Runners hope you are staying healthy. And we hope that something here makes you smile today.

Tatyana McFadden, pictured above at the 2019 TCS New York City Marathon, did the NYRR Virtual 5K (and you can too, until April 30!).

Abbott World Marathon Majors has a photo challenge for you! Submit your favorite race sign from an Abbott marathon!

Spencer and Penny, known as "the Boston Marathon dogs," took their usual spots along the Hopkinton-to-Boston route Monday, although the race has been postponed until September. Their owner thought their presence would give people a boost on a tough day. It sure gave US a boost!

This New York man ran the equivalent of what would have been his eighth Boston Marathon Monday in 1,098 loops of his South Harlem rooftop.

A Boston restaurant owner who would have run his first hometown marathon there Monday ran it instead on his treadmill as a fundraiser for his staff.

German Silva, the 1994 and 1995 New York City Marathon champion, also ran a treadmill marathon. He completed it Sunday in honor of the medical personnel working on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

A New York Road Runners member talks about the benefits of a virtual race when your long-awaited physical race gets canceled.

Boston College track team ran the Boston marathon separately, together.

A distance runner PR'd at 44, and takes a look back and what got him there, and why he cares so much. A long but awesome read.

A 99-year-old British vet raised $33 million to raise money for that country’s National Health Service to fight coronavirus by walking in his garden. #striders

A high school cross country runner in Iowa and her dad ran a marathon, one mile each hour for 26 hours. They did home repairs and experimented with recipes in between miles.

Emma Coburn’s cooking up a storm on Instagram these days.