More than 6,500 runners took to the roads of Cape Elizabeth, Maine on August 3rd for the TD Beach to Beacon 10k Road Race. It may have been the 26th annual running of the event, but this year also marks the 40th anniversary since the first women’s marathon at the Olympics. On August 5th, 1984, the Beach to Beacon race founder and Cape Elizabeth native, Joan Benoit Samuelson, made history by winning gold in an event that had been barred from women athletes since the first modern Olympic Gam...