TFS is honored to present our monthly Success Story award to individuals who have overcome tremendous obstacles, changed their own lives and/or the lives of others through running, sports or fitness.
I am proud to announce that TFS’s July 2007 Success Story is TEAM HOYT and my guest on Episode #64 of The Final Sprint Podcast is Dick Hoyt, who along with his son Rick, demonstrate the impenetrable power of love, dedication and courage, as well as, how athletics can serve as a medium for 
surmounting life’s most inconceivable challenges.
Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together continuously compete in marathons, triathlons, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.
It’s a remarkable record of exertion — all the more so when you consider that Rick, who was born with cerebral palsy, is unable to walk or talk. For more than twenty five years Dick, who is 65, has pushed and pulled his son across the country and over hundreds of finish lines and Team Hoyt has become both the face of the Boston Marathon, as well as, an inspiration and source of hope for people around the world.
Download the podcast to hear about Dick and Rick’s amazing journey, how it began, the initial resistance and later warm reception from the Boston Athletic Association, their astounding list of accomplishments, the challenges they face, Rick’s health, goals for the future, and much more!
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Host: Adam Jacobs
Guest: Dick Hoyt
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Music: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File size: 16.4 MB
Length: 24:00
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One of the Boston Marathon’s unique traditions will be on haitus this year: the father and son team of Dick and Rick Hoyt.
Dick, 66, and Rick, 44, have competed as a team at Boston 25 times at since 1981, running every edition of the race since then except for 2003. Father Dick pushes son Rick in a special wheelchair from Hopkinton to Boston because Rick is a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and cannot run himself.
Rick, a graduate of Boston University, is unable to compete this year because he is suffering from cellulitis, a common infection of the skin and the soft tissue immediately beneath it. He is scheduled to have surgery to alleviate the condition, but his post-operative recovery will take up to three weeks, putting him out of this year’s race.
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