James Redding’s journey to a record-setting run required a few emails, the right charities, and a little lottery luck.

Just a few years after taking up running alongside his mother, Lisa, to stay in shape as a hockey player at Brookline High School, the Boston College junior made history in Berlin on Sept. 21, becoming the youngest male to complete all six Abbott World Marathon Majors at 20 years, 143 days.

Redding finished marathons in Boston, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, London, and, finally, Berlin — all in the last 18 months — to earn his Six Star Medal in record time.

What began as a way to stay in shape at the age of 14 evolved from monthly 5Ks to 10Ks and a half-marathon in 2021.

At the finish line of that half in Newburyport, Redding told his mother it was time for the two of them

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