This 20-year-old Mass. native just became the youngest male to finish all 6 marathon majors

"I researched and heard about the charity [program]. I sent my mom a link to Dana-Farber, cancer charity for the Boston Marathon, and this is a special cause for us, because she was a patient there [battling Hodgkin's lymphoma] when I was 2 or 3 years old, and they saved her life. So I sent that to her, and I said, 'Hey, like, what about, what about this marathon? It gives it a little bit more meaning.'"

""I get this reciprocal, kind of full-circle text from my mom, and it's her sending me a link to a charity for the Boston Marathon," James said. "And the charity that she sent me was the Brookline Education Foundation, which was, again, super close to home, because she's been a teacher and administrator at Brookline High School for 20-plus years now, and my K-through-12 education came in Brookline. "So I'm looking at this, and I'm"

James Redding began running with his mother at 14 to stay in shape while playing hockey and progressed from monthly 5Ks to 10Ks and a half-marathon in 2021. He and his mother pursued charity entries to access major marathons, including a Dana-Farber fundraising entry tied to his mother’s cancer treatment and a Brookline Education Foundation entry connected to his family and hometown. Redding completed Boston, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, London and Berlin over an 18-month span, earning the Six Star Medal and setting the youngest-male record at 20 years, 143 days with some lottery luck and targeted outreach.

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