by maraadmin | Nov 9, 2009 | Featured, News
Organisers of road races around the world gathered in Marathon (Greece) on Saturday for the 3rd Marathon Symposium of the Association of International Marathons and Road Races (AIMS). On the day before the 27th Athens Classic Marathon, which featured around 12,000...
by maraadmin | Nov 2, 2009 | Featured, New York
NEW YORK – Proudly pointing to the bold “USA” written across his singlet and giving thumbs up to the Central Park crowd, Meb Keflezighi on Sunday became the first American man since 1982 to cross the finish line first at the ING New York City...
by maraadmin | Feb 7, 2009 | Featured, News
The Marathon, the distance that still puzzles and intrigues most, as well as attracting the most media and public attention. The distance that legends are based upon, from the greats who ran it Emil Zatopek to Carlos Lopes as well as Frank Shorter who surely ignited...
by maraadmin | Oct 19, 2008 | News, Tokyo
Viktor Röthlin, who won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, won the 2008 Tokyo Marathon – an IAAF Road Race Silver Label event – with 2:07:23. It was a course record by more than two minutes, eclipsing the mark of 2:09:45 set by...
by maraadmin | Mar 20, 2008 | Newsfeed
In 2004 my mom decided after 15 years of running to realise a lifetime dream and do her first Comrades in 2005. Since January all conversations were about training, shoes, what to eat and off course the fear of a serious injury. There were two scares –one was a torn...