MANCHESTER — When he's running on the Manchester Road Race course, Donn Cabral can always tell that he's home. "That's the only time I get called 'Donny,'" he said. "And I love it. On the course, I'm hearing, 'Go Donny! Go Cabral! Go Glastonbury!' "There's no other race out there like this for...
A look at the 79th annual Manchester Road Race from the crowd's point of view. Sponsored by ECHN.More
About 15,000 runners and walkers participated in the 79th annual Manchester Road Race Thanksgiving morning.
Photos from the Courant archives of the Manchester Road Race, held each year on Thanksgiving morning.
Manchester Road Race participants and spectators stopped by our photo booth to have their pictures taken. Sponsored by Sleepy's.More
MANCHESTER — In 1978, Charlie Duggan had been in training for the Olympic trials. He was fit and ready to race at the Manchester Road Race that fall. Duggan, a track and cross country star at Hartford Public and Springfield College, had been running Manchester since 1968, his sophomore year in...
In December of 1999, the Worcester Cold Storage fire claimed the lives of six firefighters. Manchester Fire Battalion Chief Dan Huppe was one of more than 30,000 firefighters who went to pay his respects to the fallen. "They had a big memorial service," Huppe said. "As you came over the hill, they...
On Thursday morning, Sarah Pandiscio and her dad Curt will get up early as usual and head to Manchester for the Thanksgiving Day road race. It will be her 20th consecutive year running the race. Sarah is 25 years old. She was 5 when she first ran the annual race with her parents, Curt and Vicki of...
The first year Bob Moran was the official starter for the Manchester Road Race, he almost got trampled. Moran stood in the middle of Main Street, in front of about 5,000 runners, fired the starter's pistol and realized he didn't have a very good escape route.. "I'm lucky I'm alive to this day,"...
Back in 1982, when Steve Hancock and his friends started running the Manchester Road Race wearing ugly plaid jackets and singing Platters songs, they got plenty of funny looks and raised eyebrows. Now the "Plaiders" are just part of the festive Mardi Gras atmosphere that has taken over the Manchester...