Hi, Can someone please tell me what the letter T in TM / TF for instance in a half marathon race stands for? I know the meaning - non professional, as opposed to e.g. (M)M35 -, but what about the word behind the letter?
Thanks for your help
A TEAM DISTANCE RELAY RACE ADVENTURE
36 LEGS, 200 MILES, 7 COVERED BRIDGES...
The Green Mountain Relay is a 200-mile team distance relay race adventure in Vermont designed for runners of all abilities. Scheduled the third weekend of June to take advantage of the Summer Solstice, the intimate GMR route travels north-south through the heart of Vermont and the Green Mountains, with a majority of the route following or paralleling historic Route 100.
Start your running season off with a fun and challenging adventure with 5 or 11 of your running friends on one of America's most scenic relay race routes.
COURSE
Route 100, which appears on many "Top 10" lists of American's most scenic roads, is a bucolic, two-lane road lined with maple trees, passing through narrow valleys, picking its way around cornfields, and traveling through small villages rather than ignoring them.
Runners will experience all that is special about Vermont: country stores, sugar houses, quaint country inns, covered bridges, and revolutionary war period homes, buildings, and cemeteries. Route 100 weaves through small towns and villages, past mooing cows, crowing roosters, and the roaring waterfalls in Granville Gulf. Runners cross over seven historic covered bridges, go up and over challenging hills such as Terrible Mountain, and finish with the Bennington Memorial on the horizon.
The third annual running of the Green Mountain Relay will be Saturday, June 21st - Sunday, June 22nd, 2008.
The relay begins 45 minutes from Burlington in the small town of Jeffersonville and finishes in Bennington.
TEAMS
There are two main divisions of teams in the Green Mountain Relay: 12-person and Ultra teams. Both divisions have competitive and non-competitive options.
12-person teams (7 - 12 runners) have six competitive categories to choose from: Men's, Women's, Mixed, Open, Master's, or Hash House Harrier (the red dress division) categories. Each person on a competitive 12-member team runs three legs of the race in rotation, with legs averaging 5.6 miles in distance.
High School teams are also invited to participate and have a discounted registration fee.
Ultra teams (4 - 6 runners) have three options to choose from. Ultra teams can choose the 6 x 1 option where each runner is responsible for one leg of the race averaging 33.3 miles or the 6 x 6 option where each runner is responsible for 6 legs run in rotation as the 12-person teams does. The Super Ultra option is for ultra runners who want the challenge of running the route solo or with a team of up to three runners.
The Helter Skelter category is available for both 12-person and Ultra teams and is a non-competitive category. Whereas competitive teams must follow the standard relay rules of keeping the running order of their team intact, the Helter Skelter category is for teams that choose to have their runners run in any order they want. No prizes are awarded to the top teams in the Helter Skelter category.
A COLORADO TEAM DISTANCE RELAY RACE FORT COLLINS TO STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
36 LEGS, 195 MILES ...
"... it was the most fun I've ever had while running."
John Meyer, Denver Post
The Wild West Relay is a 195-mile distance team running relay race adventure in Colorado designed for runners of all abilities. The fifth annual running of the Wild West Relay will be Friday - Saturday, August 1st - 2nd, 2008.
COURSE
This Colorado relay race begins by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, and finishes in the beautiful ski and summer resort town of Steamboat Springs. Held on open public roads, much of this very scenic and remote course runs through National Forests or on dirt roads. The route winds through Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, and Routt National Forests, and through small, mountain and ranching communities.
TEAMS
There are two main divisions of teams in the Wild West Relay: 12-person and Ultra teams. Both divisions have competitive and non-competitive options.
12-person teams (7 - 12 runners) have seven competitive categories to choose from: Mens, Womens, Mixed, Open, Masters, Flatlanders (all team members live below 2,500 feet), or Hash House Harrier (the red dress division) categories. Each person on a competitive 12-member team runs three legs of the race in rotation, with legs averaging 5.25 miles in distance.
High School teams are also invited to participate and have a discounted registration fee.
Ultra teams (4 - 6 runners) have three options to choose from. Ultra teams can choose the 6 x 1 option where each runner is responsible for one leg of the race averaging 32.5 miles or the 6 x 6 option where each runner is responsible for 6 legs run in rotation as the 12-person teams does. The Super Ultra option is for ultra runners who want the challenge of running to route solo or with a team of up to three runners.
The Helter Skelter category is available for both 12-person and Ultra teams and is a non-competitive category. Whereas competitive teams must follow the standard relay rules of keeping the running order of their team intact, the Helter Skelter category is for teams that choose to have their runners run in any order they want. No prizes are awarded to the top teams in the Helter Skelter category.
Haile Gebrselassie setting the Marathon World Record in 2007 The new record time 2:04:26 - erasing Paul Tergatââ¬â¢s record of 2:04:55 set on the same course in 2003 [/url]
World Marathon record holder Haile Gebrselassie believes he can lower his mark still further when he takes part in the Dubai Marathon on Jan 18.
The twice Olympic 10,000m champion, who will be running his final race over 42.19km before the Beijing Olympics, clocked 2hr 04min 26sec in Berlin in September.
"He and I are sure that he can do under 2:04," his manager, Jos Hermens, said. "But he's 34 and this might be his last chance." Hermens said Gebrselassie, who has been training in his native Ethiopia, had run a 15km race this month and that his preparation was going well.
Gebrselassie, who has set 26 world records, will be paced by former world half-marathon champion Fabiano Joseph, of Tanzania, and the winner of the 2002 Boston and New York marathons, Rodgers Rop of Kenya.
The prize pot for Dubai is $1million (ã500,000) with $250,000 for the winners of the men's and women's races. A world record will earn a bonus of $1 million.
The 10K is believed to be distance that gives you a marker for all events; above 10Km, that you may attempt. In the early 80's many of the leading 10K athletes stepped up to the marathon with success.
This section will be developed solely for the improvement of your 10km Personal Best [ PB ]. In order for you to achieve success at this distance, there are certain elements in your training that have to be taken into consideration, so that you are able to race the distance to your full potential.
In this section we will provide the opportunity for further advice and feedback for the 10k training programs.
This is your opportunity to get the most out of the training programs
Thanks
TheEd
ps.. see TheEd's blog where many aspects of the 10k programs are discussed
Program notes: when the program states 3 . 4 or 5 x 2k R90-2min A TIME (TIME per k)
this means repetitions 3 . 4 or 5 (depending on your program) R = Rest (the interval break) between repetitions followed by the overall time for the 2k so 11 minutes 50 seconds (or according to your prescribed time) in brackets is the PACE per KILOMETER
Top-class participants with both titleholders in the 33rd BOCLASSIC.The 33rd edition of BOCLASSIC, the international New Year’s Eve Run in Bozen (South Tyrol) comes up with several stars. Titleholders Abderrahim Goumri and Aniko Kalovics participate in the run as well as record winner Sergey Lebid.
The seven-time European Cross champion and the race ambassador Silvia Weissteiner are the darlings of the public. In today’s press conference, the complete participants have been officially presented.
Three European champions, as well as medal winners in World, European and African Championships will see to an exceptional track and field sports party. European Cross Champion Sergey Lebid faces half a dozen African top runners. Nowadays, Goumri is considered as one of the three best marathon runners of the world (2nd in New York and London). The third of the previous year Awash (19) of Ethiopia could be one of those numerous runners, who arises in Bozen/Bolzano and will then make a successful international career. A very hot lead to the win is Edwin Soi. The Kenyan was elected 2007 as world best road runner and celebrated two wins in the World Athletics Final. Another hot tip is Marathon vice World Champion Shami Mubarak Hassan of Katar.
In the women’s race spectators will see again two out of three podium runners from last year. Titleholder Aniko Kalovics from Hungary and local hero and italian leading runner Silvia Weissteiner. The 28 year old Italian is the new ambassador of the race. The strongest opponent for Kalovics might be Tetyana Holovchenko, last year’s European cross country champion and Kenyan Sylvia Kibet who finished 4th at the World Championships in Osaka over 5000 metres. All of them have to pay attention at Emebt Eta Bedada. In the last month the 17 year old promising Ethiopian runner was able to beat Kalovics twice in cross country races.
The BOCLASSIC is one of the world’s most famous New Year’s Eve runs. The race takes place in the ancient lanes of Bozen/Bolzano downtown. The length of the track is 5000 metres for women (4 rounds) and 10,000 metres for men. Women’s race will start at 3 p.m., men’s race at 3.30 p.m. Last year approximately 15,000 people followed the race along the circuit. The race will be broadcasted from RAI Sport Satellite (Hotbird) live starting at 3 p.m. For the first time it can be followed also on internet at www.senderbozen.rai.it. In the run-up will be held the BOCLASSIC 4 ALL, an international amateur race over 5000 metres and the Raiffeisen youth races with a total amount of 400 runners.
Sunday 13 January 2008 the Egmond Half Marathon will burst out again, with the largest field and a maximum number of 12,500 athletes. The Netherlands biggest winter Half marathon.
Some of the worldââ¬â¢s top athletes, with the World Champion Luke Kibet of Kenya as the big favourite, will fight for the 36th time against storm, frost and snow on a course which is never the same. Supported by more than 40,000 spectators former winners like Robert Cheboror, William Kipsang, Lornah Kiplagat, Susan Chepkemei and Tegla Loroupe have conquered the diverse course with a small lap through the small and cosy coastal village of Egmond aan Zee, 7 km across the loose sandy beach and at least 10 km through the hilly dunes and forests of the National Nature Reserve ââ¬ÅNoordhollands Duinreservaatââ¬Â.
Egmond aan Zee is located less than an hour from the Dutch capital Amsterdam and you can find more information on http://www.egmondhalvemarathon.nl.