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Greater Boston Track Club and Univeral Sole Track Club establish Margaret L. Bradley Awards
The Greater Boston Track Club board of directors has approved the establishment of the Margaret L. Bradley Award to be given yearly to a member of the Universal Sole Track Club in Chicago, Illinois, to pay expenses to race in the Boston Marathon. The Universal Sole Track Club has approved a Margaret L. Bradley Award to be given yearly to a member of the Greater Boston Track Club to race in the Chicago Marathon. The two running clubs have agreed to remember Margaret L. Bradley who was a member of both clubs who died at age 24 while hiking in the Grand Canyon on July 10, 2004. Bradley led the Greater Boston Team to first place in the open women’s team competition in the 2004 Boston Marathon and later ran on the Chicago Universal Sole team which placed second in the USA 5K Championships in Albany, New York. She had been living and working in Boston until entering medical school in Chicago and transferring to the Chicago running club. The two clubs intend the award to continue in perpetuity to remember Margaret L. Bradley by recognizing and aiding similar young women marathon runners. The award will go to post-collegiate female marathoners who have a reasonable chance to run the times that Bradley ran. Although running is a highly competitive sport and these two clubs have raced each other many times, the spirit of the award recognizes that cooperation is an essential component of competition. Such an agreement between running clubs has not been done before. Margaret L. Bradley ran a little under three hours in Chicago and a little over three hours in Boston. Runners from both clubs met at Bradley’s funeral in her home town of Falmouth, Massachusetts and conceived of the idea of this award. The award will begin with the selection of a Chicago runner to come to race in the Boston Marathon in the spring of 2005.
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