Reebok Boston 10K for Women | |
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Date | Second Monday of October (Columbus Day) |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
Event type | Road |
Distance | 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) |
Primary sponsor | Reebok |
Established | 1977 |
Organizer | Conventures, Inc. |
Course records | 31:21 (2015) Molly Huddle |
Official site | boston10kforwomen.com |
The Reebok Boston 10K for Women, formerly known as the Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women and the Bonne Bell Mini Marathon, is a major 10 kilometer (6.2 mi) road race held annually in Boston, Massachusetts, on Columbus Day. It is popular as both an elite world-class competition and a women's running event promoting health and fitness. In 2016, the race drew over 7,000 participants [1] and nearly 20,000 spectators.
The 10K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of ten kilometres. Also referred to as the 10K road race, 10 km, or simply 10K, it is one of the most common types of road running event, alongside the shorter 5K and longer half marathon and marathon. It is usually distinguished from the 10,000 metres track running event by stating the distance in kilometres, rather than metres.
Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road.
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a faster route to the Far East only to land at the New World. His first voyage to the New World on the Spanish ships Santa María, Niña, and La Pinta took approximately three months. Columbus and his crew's arrival to the New World initiated the Columbian Exchange which introduced the transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and technology between the new world and the old.
Since 1994, the race has doubled as the USA Women's 10 km Championship (USA Track & Field) 18 times. [2] It has attracted many of the world's top distance runners, including Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson and Olympian Molly Huddle, who each won four times, and Olympic bronze medalist Lynn Jennings, a six-time winner.
USA Track & Field (USATF) is the United States national governing body for the sports of track and field, cross country running, road running and racewalking. The USATF was known between 1979 and 1992 as The Athletics Congress (TAC) after its spin off from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), which governed the sport in the US through most of the 20th century until the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 dissolved its responsibility.
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Molly Huddle is an American long-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. Huddle set the American record in the 5000 m at the 2014 Herculis Diamond League meet in Fontvieille, Monaco (14:42.64), which has since been lowered by Shannon Rowbury and Shelby Houlihan. She also set the American record in the 10,000 m at the 2016 Olympics, with a time of 30:13.17. In 2019 at the London Marathon, she lowered her P.R. to 2:26:33, finishing 12th., with her training partner, Emily Sisson, also setting a PR with a 2:23:08 debut at the distance, finishing 6th, after they ran the first half together.
Begun in 1977 as the Bonne Bell Mini Marathon, Tufts Health Plan became title sponsor in 1985 [3] and supported the race for 33 years. In 2018, Reebok took up the sponsorship of the race. [4] For several years it was the largest women-only 10K in the US, most recently in 2013. [5]
Bonne Bell is a cosmetics company aimed for teens. The company was best known for its line of astringents and cleansers named "10-0-6." In the 1970s, they expanded into a popular range of lip balms called Lip Smackers which became the company's signature product.
Tufts Health Plan is a Massachusetts-based health insurance company under Tufts Associated Health Plans, Inc. with headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Reebok is an English footwear and apparel company, and a subsidiary of German sporting goods giant Adidas since 2005. Reebok produces and distributes fitness, running and CrossFit sportswear including clothing and footwear. It is the official footwear and apparel sponsor for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), CrossFit, and Spartan Race.
The race course [6] starts on Beacon Street near the Boston Common, crosses the Charles River via the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge into Cambridge near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, forms a loop along the river on Memorial Drive, and crosses back over the bridge and into Boston down brownstone-lined Commonwealth Avenue. The finish line on Charles Street returns the runners to the Boston Common for celebration.
Beacon Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts, and several of its western suburbs. It goes through Boston, Brookline, Brighton, and Newton.
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The Charles River is an 80-mile-long (129 km) long river in eastern Massachusetts. From its source in Hopkinton the river's mouth is northeast of its headwaters, though it follows a highly meandering route, doubling back on itself several times and traveling through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Boston. The Native-American name for the Charles River was Quinobequin, meaning "meandering".
The race has become a Boston tradition and there are at least 12 women who have run the race every year since its inception in 1977.
Year | Winner | Time |
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2017 | ![]() | 33:30 |
2016 | ![]() | 31:47 |
2015 | ![]() | 32:16 [7] |
2014 | ![]() | 31:38.9 |
2013 | ![]() | 31:32.9 |
2012 | ![]() | 32:29.8 |
2011 | ![]() | 32:46.4 |
2010 | ![]() | 31:59.9 |
2009 | ![]() | 32:06.6 |
2008 | ![]() | 32:51.2 |
2007 | ![]() | 32:01.0 |
2006 | ![]() | 32:37.5 |
2005 | ![]() | 32:25.2 |
2004 | ![]() | 32:47.4 |
2003 | ![]() | 32:33.3 |
2002 | ![]() | 31:45.4 |
2001 | ![]() | 32:11 |
2000 | ![]() | 32:46 |
1999 | ![]() | 32:49 |
1998 | ![]() | 31:57 |
1997 | ![]() | 32:46 |
1996 | ![]() | 32:47 |
1995 | ![]() | 32:30 |
1994 | ![]() | 31:39 |
1993 | ![]() | 32:02 |
1992 | ![]() | 32:22 |
1991 | ![]() | 32:12 |
1990 | ![]() | 32:39 |
1989 | ![]() | 31:57 |
1988 | ![]() | 31:38 |
1987 | ![]() | 32:22 |
1986 | ![]() | 31:40 |
1985 | ![]() | 31:49 |
1984 | ![]() | 31:51 |
1983 | ![]() | 31:36 |
1982 | ![]() | 31:42 |
1981 | ![]() | 32:04 |
1980 | ![]() | 32:24 |
1979 | ![]() | 32:47 |
1978 | ![]() | 33:15 |
1977 | ![]() | 34:31 |
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