My ex-Boston Marathon 2010

No i dont mean it is good or bad as sex. Well it could be: you are sweating like a pig, you cannot breath, you are tired after, and you still call it great time.But that is not the point here. It is how so many people look at training and running their first full [...]

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Last night i managed to drag my lovely wife to see the ‘encore’ presentation of the famed movie “Spirit of the Marathon”. Movie theatre was full of people, and looking around i could swear most of them couldnt run 5k. Again i was probably wrong, it just shows that runners come in all sizes and [...]

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Here is first in the series of posts about possible injuries during marathon race, training for marathon or any similar endurance sport.
Let’s imagine scenario where 30some old marathon runner after his 3rd race notice red tinged urine.
After years of training we are programed to connect color of urine to hydration. After any longer race, we [...]

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so here it is, new world record for marathon (even not official world record, just the world fastest time), for all of you who wonder what event should you pick for your new PR.

BERLIN (AP) — Haile Gebrselassie took advantage of a perfect course and ideal conditions to set a world record at the Berlin [...]

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A Chinese girl has arrived in Beijing after running more than 3,550km (2,200 miles) from the southern province of Hainan in less than two months.
Zhang Huimin, eight, rose each day at 0230 and ran about 1.5 marathons (64km, 40 miles), Xinhua news agency said. Her father accompanied her on a bicycle.
He said the feat was [...]

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We all want to run a marathon, the ultimate test for mind and body. And for those who forgot, here is short story about the legendary Battle of Marathon, Greece. Just look at the last sentence, and now get back to training.

The name of the athletic long-distance endurance race, the “marathon”, comes from the legend [...]

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Just something i found with 26:2. Motivational note for religious runners and the rest of us.
Psalm 26:2 (King James Version)
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

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just some interesting tables i found somewhere. Last year almost 400,000 marathon finishing times (probably less people, since one can run more then once

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There is something interesting about indian marathon runners pushing the limits, last time i post about 5 year old, now it is 94 year old. Here is another article from BBC news:
A 94-year-old athlete was first off the starting blocks as 11,000 runners took part in the annual Edinburgh Marathon.
Fauja Singh, the official starter [...]

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Budhia Singh phototaken from BBC News
The coach of a five-year-old Indian boy famous for running marathons has been charged with torture, police say.
They say that Biranchi Das was arrested after Budhia Singh’s mother said she had found scars on the body of her son. Mr Das strongly denies any wrongdoing.
Budhia began running at three and [...]

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