Tag: Runner

  • Nation & World

    Graham Blanks can really motor

    First-place finishes pile up for rising cross-country star, who talks about team, goals — and that time he passed the lead car.

    4 minutes
    Graham Blanks.
  • Nation & World

    Hitting full stride in emergency medicine

    Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.

    6 minutes
    Kirstin Woody Scott on dirt road.
  • Nation & World

    Fuel efficiency for marathoners

    Inspired by his experience in the 2005 New York Marathon, an M.D./Ph.D. student has taken a rigorous approach to calculating just how much carbohydrate a runner needs to fuel himself or herself through 26.2 miles, and what pace that runner can reasonably expect to sustain.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seeing Harvard from all sides

    Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to…

    11 minutes