I was reading an account of the 2024 Boston Marathon held Monday, April 15, which summed up the day as a “tale of two races.” The writer noted that the weather conditions were favorable for the elite runners, who started earlier in the morning before temperatures began to rise. The men’s winner was Ethiopia’s Sisay […]
The tale of the Ashokan Rail Trail 8-Mile Run begins at Kingston Point in the mid-19th century. In 1866 Thomas Cornell, the founder of the Cornell Steamboat Company, recognized that railroads would end the dominance of the canal system as the primary method of transportation and commerce in New York State and the nation. He […]