Our last guest of the season is Gerry Beagan, one of the founders of the Runners Reunion event

Our last guest of the season is Gerry Beagan, one of the founders of the Runners Reunion event.  Gerry’s story is perhaps one of the best examples of how the running boom of the 70’s impacted the lives of the 25 million Americans who fueled the growth of competitive road running.  By chance Gerry was at Fenway to watch the World Series bound 1975 Red Sox on Patriot’s Day and spilled out into the street to watch the finish of the marathon to see running’s common man Bill Rodgers float by in a homemade T-Shirt to win the race in an American Record.  The west wind that day also swept Gerry right into the thick of the Running Boom.  

Running from that point on became his passion that inspired him to complete more than 100 marathons, countless ultra marathons, organize many of the area’s iconic road races, coaching local runners to PRs  and publish a magazine and book on New England Road Races.  Like many of us Gerry was always a fixture at post race social events providing sage advice on almost any topic that many of us appreciate to this day.