FCTV Staff and Interns were out in full force to bring you live coverage of the 49th running of the Falmouth Road Race! It was an exciting race from beginning to end. Congratulations to the winners in each class and everyone for completing this year's run from Woods Hole to Falmouth Heights.

2020 Tokyo Olympic Marathon bronze medalist, Molly Seidel, served as the official race starter and joined the ASICS Falmouth Race field of nearly 8,000 registered participants as its very last runner. In support of Tommy’s Place, a vacation home in Falmouth for kids fighting cancer, Falmouth Road Race pledged to donate one dollar for every runner that she passed along the 7-mile course. Tim O’Connell, founder of Tommy’s Place, announced an additional dollar-for-dollar match.

The Falmouth Walk annually occurs the day before the Road Race, and is another classic event started by Tommy Leonard and Eddie Doyle to raise money for local charities. We caught up with Eddie and the president of the Walk Tom Walrath to discuss the past thirty years.

Every summer the Cape becomes a mecca for the nation’s finest collegiate baseball players who come to play in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Along with the athletes, they’re joined by hundreds of college communications students from around the nation who come to get invaluable experience covering the games, the coaches, and the players.

Since the year 2000, the Falmouth Road Race Numbers for Nonprofits program has helped charity partners raise over 45 million dollars and raise awareness for their causes.  For some of the more than one hundred and sixty organizations, the ASICS Falmouth Road Race is their most significant source of income. 

Since 1995, the Falmouth Elite Mile has played host to more than two dozen Olympians. This invitational event, along with the tenth running of the Tommy Cochary High School Mile, were  both held at Falmouth High School on race weekend.

Due to COVID-19 precautions, Ben Flanagan never got a chance to defend his 2018 victory in the Falmouth Road Race until this year. With a winning time of thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds, he kept his road race winning streak intact. FCTV checked in with Ben and some of the other top finishers in this year’s race.

In this episode of Falmouth in Focus, we’ll have several stories from the forty-ninth running of the Falmouth Road Race weekend: Olympic Medalist Molly Seidel's fundraiser during the race, the annual Falmouth Walk, Numbers for Non-Profits, interviews with the elite winners, coverage of the Elite Mile and the Tommy Cochary High School Mile; and we'll take a look at how Falmouth Commodores interns supported their team this summer.