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GRANDMA鈥橲 MARATHON: On a runner鈥檚 high: New Bemidji resident Dick Beardsley鈥檚 saga intertwined in Grandma鈥檚 Marathon lore

DULUTH -- Nobody would have blamed Dick Beardsley for skipping the 1982 Grandma's Marathon. Sixty days earlier, Beardsley engaged Alberto Salazar in a historic "duel in the sun" at the Boston Marathon. The recovery time between races wasn't suffi...

2610382+_DSC8405 (1).JPG — Running on the Paul Bunyan Trail, Dick Beardsley nears the end of his morning run on June 9 in Bemidji. (Jillian Gandsey | Bemidji Pioneer)

By Louie St. George III

June 17, 2016 at 8:36 AM

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