The crack of the starter’s gun in front of the Captain Kidd on Sunday, August 14, will launch runners along the stunning seven mile ocean-front course for the 39th consecutive year. Christine graciously acknowledged those who work to keep the race in the forefront of America’s racing venues. International recognition for Falmouth and years of philanthropic generosity underscore the many accomplishments and contributions the race brings to Falmouth. Over 100 members and guests converged on one of the town’s outstanding venues, 77 Water Street in Woods Hole to network and chase away the winter blues.Ĭhristine Frazier, NBFRR Board President and Director of Sales and Marketing at Pine Hills Golf Club, briefly touched on the history and future of a road race. Two long-standing members of the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, New Balance Falmouth Road Race and the Captain Kidd Restaurant, partnered in February for one of the hottest Business After Hours ever.
Ron Hoffman, Compassionate Care ALS (featured non-profi t), Matt Auger, New Balance Falmouth Road Race, Winner of the 50/50 Raffl e, and Christine Frazier, Board of Directors President, New Balance Falmouth Road Race Association of Road Racing Statisticians. "Saina, Sambu, Senbeta and McFadden win Falmouth Road Race". "Kenyan Stephen Sambu beats the heat to win Falmouth Road Race". "Kenyans Sweep at Sunday's Falmouth Road Race". "Ben Flanagan finishes Falmouth Road Race with a flourish". : CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) "Micah Kogo Edges Ben True at Falmouth Road Race". The race also has a wheelchair division with course records held by Daniel Romanchuck, USA, at 21:58 and Tatyana McFadden, USA, at 26:15, both set in 2019. The starting line of the 2016 Falmouth Road Race. In 2006, it was measured and certified to be 7 miles (11 km). From the start corral, one races up a gradually steepening incline and into a narrow wooded road, emerging onto a long curved coastal stretch that runs by Nobska Light, continuing along a wooded road with gentle rolling hills, emerging onto Surf Drive along a hot beach on Martha's Vineyard Sound, past beach cottages on stilts, before turning inland toward the center of Falmouth town, along Falmouth Harbor, and finally looping back to the shore route for one last 1⁄ 4-mile (400 m) hill that crests just before the finish.īefore 2006, promotional materials usually described the Falmouth Road Race as a 7.1-mile (11.4 km) event.
The beginning of the course is extremely hilly, with a starting line by the Captain Kidd Restaurant & Bar in Woods Hole, and a finish by the Falmouth Heights beach. Five runners, celebrated through the years as "The Falmouth Five" Mike Bennett, Tom Brannelly, Don Delinks, Ron Pokraka and Brian Salzberg, have officially completed 46 consecutive Falmouth Road Races. A number of places are especially reserved for Falmouth residents. Applications must be submitted online on the race website. The application period is a short window of time during the first half of May. More people apply for places than can be accommodated in the race, so a random selection process is held to select the field of runners. The field of runners typically includes many of the best American and international runners, including both past and future Olympic athletes. Today the ASICS Falmouth Road Race is considered one of the premier non-marathon races in the country, if not the world, attracting over 10,000 runners each year. The next year there were 445 runners, and the year after that Frank Shorter joined 850 other runners in the race, bringing Leonard's wish true. After Shorter won the marathon Leonard was quoted as saying "Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could get Frank Shorter to run in a race on Cape Cod?" One year later, in the summer of 1973, with the help of a local high school track coach John Carroll, and the town's recreation director Rich Sherman, the first Falmouth Road Race was run by approximately 100 people. During the 1972 Summer Olympics, Leonard closed his bar in order to watch Frank Shorter win the first Olympic marathon for the United States since 1908.
The race was the idea of Tommy Leonard, an avid runner and popular bartender in Boston and Falmouth. The logo for the race organizer, Falmouth Road Race, Inc.
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