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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The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon will be held on Sept 27th, 2009. Not to be confused with the other Toronto Marathon, which is actually called the Toronto Marathon and is held three weeks later in October. The Toronto Waterfront Marathon will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2009. It is also a qualifier for the [...]
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I have to admit here, this is the world’s largest half marathon, and I heard about the event only this year. The Bupa Great North Run is the world’s most popular half marathon road running event, and this years event will be run on September 20th, the same day as the Berlin Marathon. The run [...]
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On September 20th, it will be the 36th edition of one of the greatest marathons in the world, the real,-Berlin Marathon 2009. Voted recently as the Marathon of the Decade by IAAF, Berlin is known for its super fast flat course, and a witness to as many as 6 world records over the last 20 [...]
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The 6th edition of the Fortis Half Marathon Rotterdam will be held on September 13th. The event boasts a flat and super fast course and this greatly reflects in the timings achieved over the past 5 years of the event. 2004 – Robert K. Cheruiyot runs the season best of 1:00:11 2005 – Sammy Wanjiru [...]
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There has already been a lot of excitement at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, some due to what happened (like Usain Bolt’s 9.58 WR in 100m), or some due to what did not happen (like Yelena Isinbayeva’s miss at the pole vault). Since this blog mostly covers long distance events, I [...]
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More than 10,000 runners will be on the starting line of the 2009 NYC Half-Marathon, in the 4th edition of the race. Some of the world’s best long-distance runners will duel on the streets of Manhattan at the NYC Half-Marathon on Sunday, August 16. The entries to the event had run out within a couple of [...]
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Autumn is the season when the big men of marathoning come out all guns blazing. This period spans from August right up to November, beyond the summers, and before the chill of the winter peaks, ideal conditions for running marathons in all parts of the world (okay, the northern hemisphere). So it is no surprise [...]
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Just 5 days to go for the 84th edition of this ultramarathon, which will be run on a Sunday (unlike past traditions), May 24th. This years run is an 89KM ‘down’ run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. The cutoff time for the race will be 12:00 hours, which means that the race starts at 5:30 am [...]
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