Ahead of the ASICS Falmouth Road Race (August 20, 2023), event sponsor Cape Cod Coffee has released a special new coffee roast that pays tribute to two prior participants in the Massachusetts road race.
Dick and Rick Hoyt pioneered diversity, equity, and inclusion as one of the first duo run teams, with Dick pushing his wheelchair-bound son with cerebral palsy down the half-marathon course. The duo competed in hundreds of endurance races but held their longest road race streak at the Falmouth Road Race with a record 37 races completed.
The Coffee for a Cause program has chosen The Hoyt Foundation, which was founded by the late Rick and Dick Hoyt. Runner’s Roast is described as a mild coffee with notes of caramel, toffee and chocolate, and a percentage of every purchase will benefit The Hoyt Foundation.
Runner’s Roast will be available to purchase at Cape Cod Coffee in its retail locations, as well as online. This is one of a variety of ways the company has honoured Rick and Dick Hoyt since their passings, most recently Rick in May of this year and Dick in 2021.
“The Hoyt Family, Team Hoyt and The Hoyt Foundation are honored to be a part of the Falmouth Road Race Charity Program and we are extremely excited that Cape Cod Coffee has chosen us to receive proceeds from the sale of the Falmouth Road Race Signature Blend,” said Russ Hoyt, President and CEO of the Hoyt Foundation.
“The Falmouth Road Race is the only race that Dick and Rick ran more times than the Boston Marathon. When we lived in Falmouth, we always had Cape Cod Coffee in the house.”
The Hoyt legacy is carried on at the Falmouth Road Race by the duo teams who continue to participate and by the members of Team Hoyt who run to raise funds for their foundation.
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