Blueberry Cove

A run along the rugged, rocky shoreline of Midcoast Maine

Blueberry Cove Half Marathon

Tenants Harbor, Maine | Sunday, August 24, 2025

Enjoy the tranquil, peaceful beauty of Midcoast Maine and raise money for the locally based 4-H camp and learning center at this late-summer race, set here along the gorgeous rocky St. George peninsula that looks out into the harbor from which the town gets its name. Known perhaps best for the lighthouse that sits out on Southern Island just offshore, Tenants Harbor is a place where boats outnumber cars — and where you’ll run along winding roads with views of the ocean crashing against the beaches and rocky shorelines, with “quiet coves, gentle hills, and few houses.”

$100 and up

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A great running read

This Runner Suddenly Shares His Name With the New Pope. He’s Having the Weirdest Week Ever. You’re not gonna believe this: 48-year-old Robert Prevost not only shares the same name as the new 69-year-old pontiff, but he and his wife also have a dog named Leo! (Not to be confused with the new Pope Leo XIV, of course):

What have the last 24 hours been like?

It’s been pretty hilarious. I’m actually hanging out in Las Vegas with my younger brother right now for our birthdays. We’re just getting in a couple rounds of golf to get away. So, we were sitting having lunch at the golf course yesterday, and the news pops up on our phones, and he just blurts out and starts laughing, saying, “My brother is the pope!”

All of a sudden, my phone just started buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, and there have probably been a couple hundred messages that have come through. It’s been kind of fun, honestly.

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Words to run by

“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun… As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”

— Katharine Hepburn, born on this day in 1907