I had heard of this exotic group called Marathon Maniacs, and in fact knew about a couple of people who were there on its list of maniacs. Today, I went to their website and found that they in fact have an entry criteria for being an official maniac. There are several levels of maniacs, starting [...]
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Source: The Hindu Men (42.2 km):1. Binign Lyngkhoi (Army Sports Institute, Pune) 2:21.072. Bhairav Singh (M.P.) 2:26.493. Neeraj Pal Singh (Army Sports Institute, Hyderabad) 2:27.13 Women (10.5km): 1. Kavit Raut (ONGC) 32.552. Preeja Sreedharan (Kerala) 32.583. Pampa Chanda (Bengal) 34.28
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Running and Living marathon, Feb 22nd. Time: 4:38:57 That’s beyond my wildest expectations, and a personal best! And I was already inspired even before the run, by the special BIB number 001! That too on my 5th marathon and overall 10th marathon event (including half marathons!). Looks like it was destined to be a perfect [...]
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Well, as the running seasons gets to a close, there is a deluge of marathons around the country, with the Auroville marathon on Feb 15, Chennai marathon also on Feb 15. And now, a couple of marathons taking place on Feb 22nd. First, the Running and Living marathon at Gurgaon, and now the Airtel Kolkata marathon. Four marathons in India within a weeks [...]
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Event date: Feb 20, 2009 Makau also ran the 2nd fastest half marathon time ever, at 58:52. The WR of Sammy Wanjiry is 58:33 and the next best is also Wanjiru’s at 58:53, set in the 1st RAK half marathon in 2007. I had the opportunity to follow the event live on sport-track.com where it [...]
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Event date: Feb 15th, 2009 It was a tale of two marathons, which by the twist of fate, or by the idiocy of the organizers, fell on the same date, even though when are located so near to each other. To clarify, Auroville marathon was planned months in advance, and as always, Chennai marathon comes [...]
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3rd Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon: expect a World Record! Ras Al Khaimah is one of the seven Emirates that form the United Arab Emirates, others being (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, and Fujairah). The first edition of this race was held in 2007 in a spectacular fashion with a world record [...]
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After all the media attention focussed around Milind Soman and his first attempt at the 42K at Mumbai, it was quite natural to be inquisitive about what really happened, how did his run go, and whether he was able to achieve his target time (if there was any). So, after a bit of googling, I [...]
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For the 2010 event, check details here. Website: http://www.chennaimarathon.org/ Registration : http://www.chennaimarathon.org/registrationform.htm This is happening on the same day as the Auroville marathon, and infact most of the Chennai running community is doing Auroville instead of Chennai, for obvious reasons.
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