The world’s top five marathons have come together to launch a World Marathon Majors (WMM) series (source : coolrunning.com). The series will be launched with the start of the Boston marathon this April. The marathons part of this series are: Boston (Apr) London (Apr) Berlin (Sept) Chicago (Oct) New York (Nov) Points will be awarded [...]
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An analysis, courtesy MarathonGuide.com The Men’s record is currently in the name of Paul Tergat of Kenya with a time of 2:04:55, set in Berlin Marathon in 2003. Berlin is currently the most popular place to set world records, having 4 of the top 10 timings in the world. This is followed by Chicago (3), [...]
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Today, I received a confimation from the organizing committee of Bangalore marathon, that they would be having the 2nd Bangalore marathon. The date for the event is May 14th. It looks like they might actually have online registrations too! And if I have calculated correctly, there are 15 weeks between now and then, sufficient to [...]
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Mumbai marathon came, and went. The return to Mumbai after 6 years was memorable, and brought back fond memories of the good times gone by. I used to work here, my office being located in Andheri, East. Unfortunately, most of my colleagues from there had already left for greener pastures in all this time… so [...]
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The first international Delhi Marathon is supposed to be held on Feb 12th, 2005, or so their website claims. People from all over the world and from our country would be participating. No doubt they will, if they have a desire to see the worst of marathons we can have here. As I had mentioned [...]
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My blog mentioned my running number for Mumbai marathon, 552. One guy, Anand, was browsing through my blog, noticed my number, somehow recognized me by my BIB number, which was visible in one of his photographs he took at the Mumbai marathon, and was kind enough to forward to me the photo. Amazing… and thanks, [...]
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Most of the marathons we have here, including the recently concluded Mumbai marathon, leave a lot to be desired. Here’s my list of things I would love to change. 1. Start the Full Marathon early. 6:30, even 7:00 should be okay. Not beyond that, though. 2. Publish the full results, pleeeaze! All decent international marathons [...]
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Here are some of the events listed on the AIMS website: Jan 15: Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (over) May 14: Lipton Bangalore Marathon Sept 23: Hyderabad Midnight Marathon Oct 15: Delhi Half Marathon I removed the Tibetan marathon event from the list above, as looking at the event website, I doubt it is an annual [...]
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Jan 15th, 2006 … 58 min 55 sec Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia), king of middle distance running for so many years, shattered the world record in the half marathon with a time of 58 minutes, 55 seconds at P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona. He lowered the mark by 21 seconds (previous world record 59:16). Gebrselassie [...]
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