There will be a star-studded international field on November 7 at the ING New York City Marathon. Its a proverbial who’s who of marathon running, from the world record holder and marathon king Haile Gebrselassie, to the unexpected 2009 NYC Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi. A new angle to this marathon would be the return of [...]
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Here’s the official word from the Comrades Marathon 2010 organizers about the cut off points, and the time limits by which the runners must cross those points to be able to continue in the race. To put this into perspective compared to the previous year, there is no significant change, though the halfway cutoff has [...]
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In a recent edition, Runners World magazine published the list of Top 5 running related movies of all time, as chosen by its editors, as well as its readers. Chariots of Fire topped both the lists. Here goes: Editor’s Choice Chariots of Fire – The inspiring true story of British athletes competing in the 1924 [...]
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Cadence Design Systems lifted the overall trophy at the 10th CRY Cadence Corporate Citizenship Challenge (5Cs). It was a sweet revenge over our beloved customers, Freescale Semiconductor, who were the winners last year by a silver, and this time, we edged them out by a silver too! On the right: Abhinav Bindra, India’s Olympic gold [...]
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The 3rd edition of the Delhi Runners Half Marathon (DRHM) monthly series will take place at Jahanpanah City Forest, a beautiful forested trail running route in the heart of the city. The event has been growing in popularity, with the first two runs in Nehru Park seeing good participation (about 35 in the August run, [...]
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On Nov 1st, I ran my 5th consecutive Delhi Half Marathon, which over the years has gone through various title sponsors from Hutch for the first couple of years, to Vodafone, and then to Airtel for the recent two. BIB No: 4004 Completion time: 2:21:31 Overall Rank: 1851/5326 I was suffering from a lower leg [...]
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Rwandan Dieudonné Disi produced an astonishing finish to win the 31th edition of Marseille-Cassis “Classique Internationale” half marathon run, on Oct 25th in 1:00:21. Meseret Mengustu (Ethiopia) took the women’s race in 1:10:35. The Marseille-Cassis “Classique Internationale” is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race. Some 12,000 runners lined-up at 9:30 am at Marseille’s Velodrome in [...]
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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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