MONTEREY, Calif. - Thirty-five of the nation's top half marathon runners comprise the fastest-ever field to compete in the Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay, set for Sunday morning, November 17. Seven of the male athletes posting times under 1 hour, 3 minutes are poised to set
Jan Henning Winschermann (chairman of rhein-marathon duesseldorf e.V., the club promoting the sport of distance running) is a frequent flyer. The Race Director of the METRO GROUP Marathon Düsseldorf has been flying more than 100,000 miles, i.e. 160,000 kilometres this year to promote ’his...
Stylianos Kyriakides, a championship Greek marathoner, promised to win the 1946 Boston Marathon -- not for glory but to bring the world's attention to the plight of his war-torn country. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):
AIMS (The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races) is to mark the 2,500th year of the marathon race by staging its 18th Congress in Athens, Greece on 28-30 October 2010. The organizer of the Congress will be the Hellenic Athletics Federation (SEGAS), the organizer of the internatio...
Past and present performers at the forefront of distance running showed their support for the Athens Classic Marathon and its unique status among marathons this past weekend. Receiving his award as the AIMS Best Male Marathon Runner of the Year on Friday evening in Athens, the current world record h...
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