Barbara Huebner
Cognoscenti contributor
Barbara Huebner has been covering the Boston Marathon for almost 30 years, first as a Boston Globe staff writer and more recently as a freelancer. She lives a 10-minute walk from the finish line.
Recently published
Watch out, Boston: The world's fastest marathoner is coming to town
Will Eliud Kipchoge achieve the unfathomable? A sub-2-hour marathon? Anything is possible, writes Barbara Huebner.
There'll be one very important person missing at the 125th running of the Boston Marathon
Bobbi Gibb’s Bermuda shorts. A championship trophy-turned-ice-bucket. Des Linden’s rain-soaked jacket. For a quarter century, Gloria Ratti was the Boston Athletic Association’s intrepid historian, saving artifacts from the world’s most...