A few years ago, when Harper Spain was told she couldn’t join her second-grade running club at her school in Wisconsin because she was too young at the time, her mom, Laurel Mullen, had an idea: ...

Beatrice Nolan, a junior at South Shore Charter Public School in Norwell, will compete in the Boston 10K for Women race.

Lisa Vedernikova Khanna called her Russian immigrant mother a few months ago to tell her that she was running for Congress.

Carol Kuhn of Wisconsin turned 70 in March. To celebrate, she said she has one last marathon in her —Kuhn's 71st — that she'll run in Detroit.