A bit slower and a lot more painful, Ben Beach prepares for 52nd straight Boston Marathon
By Jim Hage April 14 at 12:20 PM One way to appreciate the magnitude of Ben Beach’s record streak of completing 51 consecutive Boston Marathons is to consult an almanac. Beach ran his first Boston Marathon at 18 in 1968, before the moon walk, Watergate and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Weygandt retired from the race in 2011 at 64. The next spring, Beach equaled the mark and then passed Weygandt in 2013, the year of the bombings near the finish line. Along with thousands of other runners, Beach was still running when the course was closed. But marathon officials declared those beyond a certain checkpoint, including Beach, official finishers.
“When it gets close to these two races, I tend to be a little more cautious and paranoid,” he said. “But over the years, there’s no doubt I’ve been extraordinarily lucky.” “Once Ben got to 50 in a row,” Stewart said, “I think he became a little more philosophical. If something came up now so that he couldn’t run or he didn’t qualify, he could live with it.”
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