The pain in Matt Welch's feet wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that his sport, track, requires him to constantly be putting one foot in front of the other.

Rosy Spraker was only a half-mile from the finish line of her seventh Boston Marathon when the bombs went off. She received her medal later in the mail at her Lorton, Va., home. But she couldn't bring herself to wear it until Saturday, when she and th...

As runners continue to pursue the 26.2-mile distance in record numbers, small-town Grandma's Marathon is holding its own compared to races in metropolitan areas with much larger population bases.