Barefoot at Boston

Terrence Concannon finished the 2026 Boston Marathon without shoes, then said a day later that his feet felt “great.” (boston.com) Concannon, a former Hingham resident now based in Florida, ran all 26.2 miles of Monday’s race barefoot at the 130th Boston Marathon. Boston.com first profiled his shoeless run on April 20 and followed up on April 21 with his recovery update. (boston.com) The Boston Athletic Association said about 30,000 participants were entered in the April 20 race, which runs from Hopkinton to Boston on Patriots’ Day. Official results pages list 28,506 total results for 2026. (baa.org, baa.org) Barefoot marathoners are unusual in Boston because the course is 26.2 miles of paved roads, downhill stretches, and the late Newton Hills. Concannon’s finish stood out in local coverage built around endurance stories from Marathon Monday. (baa.org, boston.com) That same post-race news cycle in Boston also highlighted other human-interest moments, including runners who stopped near the finish to help an exhausted competitor. The Boston Herald published that rescue story on April 21, one day after the race. (bostonherald.com) Concannon also ran as a charity entrant for Tenacity, a Boston nonprofit that says it supports students through academics, fitness, and life-skills programming. Tenacity’s marathon team page says runners in its Boston Marathon program commit to fundraising minimums for the organization. (fox13news.com, tenacity.org) The 2026 race produced bigger headline results at the front, too: John Korir won the men’s open race in 2:04:45 and Sharon Lokedi won the women’s open race in 2:18:51, according to the Boston Athletic Association. Concannon’s shoeless finish landed in a different lane of marathon attention, centered on how he got through the course at all. (baa.org) A day after running Boston on bare pavement, Concannon’s update was simpler than the stunt itself: his quads hurt, he said, but not his feet. (boston.com)