Elite runner Senbere Teferi was just meters away from winning the Peachtree Road Race title in Atlanta once again – before taking a wrong turn that cost her the $10,000 grand prize.

ATLANTA — The AJC Peachtree Road Race is both a community celebration, full of amateur runners, joggers and walkers - and, not to be discounted, it's a seriously competitive athletic event.

Louis Serafini, of Cambridge, ran the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Road Race once before back in 2018 or 2019. Still, the hills come as a surprise, only in Serafini’s case a happy surprise. “I love ...