It was a Kenyan 1-2-3 at the Beijing International marathon with Mugo Samuel taking the lead from countryman Nicholas Manza with four kilometers to go and winning in 2:08:20. Manza finished 22 seconds behind, with Barus Benson another 9 secs later. In the womens event, it was a relatively slow race by international standards, with reigning world [...]
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Just about 2 weeks to go for the 5th Airtel Delhi Half Marathon now, so its basically countdown time. This years event seems to be a little low key compared to the years gone by. I was thinking about this for the last few days and finally decided to write something about this. There are [...]
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News just coming in for the 34th Amsterdam Marathon. Kenyan runner Gilbert Yegon won the mens marathon in a fast 2:06:19. This was the debut marathon for the 21 year old Kenyan! Looks like he has a great career ahead of him running marathons. He also broke the course record of Haile Gebrselassie by 2 [...]
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Eritean Zersenay Tadese, the outstanding pre-race favourite confirmed the predictions in a time of 59:35 taking his fourth successive World title, delivered thanks to a sustained attack which began some 10 kilometres into today’s IAAF / EDF Energy World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham. More on IAAF website. Mary Keitany, the 2007 silver medallist, moved up [...]
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Right now, I am following the event live on Universal Sports, and it is well past the half way mark. Will post the results immediately after they are available. As per the latest news, the leading group is going out at almost world record pace, including Sammy Wanjiru and Vincent Kipruto, with the 28KM mark [...]
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Watch Chicago marathon live on Universal Sports (Oct 11, 8:00 AM ET). Chicago Marathon is just a few days away and the excitement is already building up towards what could be a great race waiting to unfold. Sammy Wanjiru has already mentioned that he will be attacking Haile Gebrselassie’s World Record time of 2:03:59 set [...]
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Organizers of ADHM have lined up some big stars for the 2009 event. This includes the complete podium from the last years event which saw an amazing performance with all the top 3 runners finishing under 1 hour mark, and Deriba Merga of Ethiopia running the fastest time of the year in 59:15. Last years [...]
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Training for a Half Marathon needs focused training effort, particularly for beginners. A typical fitness runner who regularly runs a 5K or once in a while 10K would probably just be able to complete the distance, but for doing well at the distance, a training plan which can gradually ramp up his endurance to cover [...]
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Silas Sang of Kenya battled compatriot 2009 World Marathon silver medalist Emmanuel Mutai for the title in the 11th edition of the Portugal Half Marathon. Sang won the race in 1:00:20. Both Sang and Mutai got personal bests. In the women’s event, Helena Kirop, also of Kenya, won in 1:10:26. Runners from Portugal were also [...]
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Tanvir Kazmi is a passionate runner and has been blogging about marathon running, sharing news and updates since 2005 ... read more »
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