Not everybody crosses over into the 40+ age category in running with grace and fortitude, but Des Linden has managed to meet the milestone with ease--and, in fact, gratitude. On Sunday at the 2023 ...

In perhaps the worst rain and headwinds in Boston Marathon history, Chula Vista’s Des Linden won the memorable 2018 race in 2 hours, 39 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunday, at the Chicago Marathon in ideal ...

Send this article to your social connections. Boston Marathon fan favorite and 2018 champion Des Linden announced her retirement from professional marathoning, saying Monday’s race from Hopkinton to ...

After racing in the Chicago Marathon last October and then the Olympic trials in February, Des Linden says she’s feeling pretty fit though she admits she’s a “little bit fatigued.” But she’s also ...

Des Linden Sets Masters Marathon Record American Women at the 2023 Chicago Marathon Sifan Hassan Wins the 2023 Chicago Marathon But despite the headlines Linden made during her 26th marathon (and ...

Drug testing in professional running has made plenty of headlines over the years—even as the process itself has remained somewhat mysterious to spectators of the sport. But on this week’s episode of ...

Des Linden isn’t sure if this is her 12th Boston Marathon or her 13th. She had to resort to counting on her fingers last week, while the BAA’s Mary-Kate Shea was on the phone trying to confirm the ...

FIVE. IMPORTANT, INDEED. JOHN. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MARATHON, AND SHE HAS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MARATHON MOMENTS IN RECENT HISTORY. AND TODAY, A BOSTON ...

Des Linden last ran the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race 20K in 2007. She was 24 years old. She finished fifth. Back then, she was Desiree Davila, with her whole career in front of her – her ...

Des Linden is making her 28th marathon — and 12th in Boston — the last 26.2-mile race of her professional career. Linden, 41, made her marathon debut in Boston in 2007, ran her first of five Olympic ...