It was a chance remark by the 85 year old miracle-marathoner Ed Whitlock* which led me to do an internet search on Miruts Yifter ‘the Shifter’. Ed is in London visiting his sister and we met up for a chat in a Thamesside café this week. Ed
The growth of running is booming around the world, an audience representing over 400 cities in over 100 countries and territories heard this week in Athens, Greece, the home of the marathon. The ‘Athens Marathon, the Authentic’ Greece has seen growth from 5,000 runners to 50,000 in
On Wednesday morning, 1,000 charity starting places for the 2017 BMW BERLIN-MARATHON were sold out. We thank you on behalf of the “RTL Spendenmarathon” for the support of the runners. 60 Euros of the payment for those places, will go directly to the RTL Donation Marathon
HONOLULU, HI, USA (07-Dec) — Nick Arciniaga is aiming to complete one of the toughest doubles in distance running at Sunday’s Honolulu Marathon. A week after finishing second at the arduous XTERRA Trail Running World Championship Half-Marathon in Kualoa
It is 10 years since a British man won the senior race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships, not that he then disappeared from the scene. That, of course, was Mo Farah, and if it is an omen for his fellow teammates this weekend
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