Eight marathons, four majors, the 6-Star ahead.

I run marathons. Eight finishes so far; four of them are Abbott World Marathon Majors, four are not.

The current project is the Abbott World Marathon Majors 6-Star medal — completing the six world majors (Boston, Chicago, New York, Berlin, London, Tokyo). Roughly ten thousand finishers worldwide hold it. It is the closest thing distance running has to a global credential.

The majors I've completed:

• Tokyo Marathon — fundraised for a childhood-vaccines charity.
• New York Marathon, November 2024 — fundraised for Team for Climate (NY State forestry and clean air).
• Chicago Marathon, Fall 2025 — qualified by time.
• Boston Marathon, the 130th running, April 2026 — qualified by time.

Berlin Marathonis September 2026; I'm in training now. It will be marathon number nine. London Marathon in 2027 will be marathon ten — and will complete the 6-Star.

The qualifying-time entries at Boston and Chicago surprised me as much as anyone. I trained for all of this in my mid-fifties.

The other four marathons in the count were non-majors — local races, no stories worth telling here.

What I take from the running, if anything: long projects with no shortcuts. Slow compounding. Showing up when you don't feel like it. The investment-management technology arc and the running arc rhyme more than they should.