A Part of Hearst Digital Media Boston Marathon in 2010, 2015, and 2021, plus ran the course in reverse in 2013. Amanda Furrer has nine consecutive Boston finishes and will be toeing the line in Hopkinton this year. They held a Zoom call with Runner's World+ members who are running the Marathon this year to share their insight about the course, weather considerations, and, of course, the best places to celebrate afterward.
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Training Tweaks That Will Get You to a BQ Runner's World, guiding the brand's shoes and gear coverage. A true shoe dog, he's spent more than a decade testing and reviewing shoes. In 2017, he ran in 285 different pairs of shoes, including a streak of 257 days wearing a different model.
Amanda is a test editor at Runner’s World who has run the Boston Marathon every year since 2013; she's a former professional baker with a master’s in gastronomy and she carb-loads on snickerdoodles.
