Sometimes we want to be sprinters when this work is better suited to marathon runners.
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The study did find that the risk among male marathon runners rose over the course of the decade.
If one of Sunday's marathon runners attempts a Wanjiru-like performance, it's likely to be somebody young and brash.
The Globe reported that Campbell often went to the see the marathon runners.
If those marathon runners can run 26.2 miles and still run to the hospital, you can squeeze a trip into your day.
The Boston Athletic Association on Wednesday opened its headquarters near Copley Square to Boston Marathon runners looking to retrieve bags and claim their medals.
"I'd like to show marathon runners and those watching that I'm inspired by so many of them, " wrote Jessica Pilkington, a 27-year-old who works in Boston.
Three of Kenya's top marathon runners, axed from Kenya's team for the Sydney Olympics, have claimed at a news conference that officials are pursuing a personal vendetta against them.
Following the recent emergence of studies finding high levels of coronary plaque in marathon runners, sports medicine is debunking the myth that distance running confers near-absolute protection against heart disease.
Both the men's and women's races had depleted fields -- South African Olympic champion Jose Thugwane and other big-name marathon runners are in training for the more lucrative New York marathon in November.
Prominent marathon runners include 28-year-old Ito Makiko, champion at the 1997 Tokyo women's international, and Suzuki Hiromi, 29, who took a gold at the world track and field championships last year.
At first Leslie Findley, a consultant neurologist in England who has treated marathon runners, footballers and tennis players with mono, said it was a "myth" that those involved in tennis are more vulnerable than other athletes.
If they do decide to leave Mr Martin with his cart, their ruling is likely to be on grounds narrow enough to avoid a herd of asthmatic marathon runners or lame basketballers hobbling in his wake.
The race is the second largest half marathon in the country and is popular with runners training for the London Marathon in April.
At the beginning of a marathon race, the runners are pumped and ready to go.
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Also, the Boston Marathon does not allow runners that young.
The 2004 marathon attracted 2, 594 runners and 5, 657 spectators, according to the research compiled by jogscotland, a Scottish Executive-backed running organisation.
In 1908, she said, spectators handed champagne to runners in the marathon, which meant that the first racer to approach the finish line was too drunk to find it.
Champion athlete Liz McColgan, who won the marathon in 1996, said some runners were in trouble.
He was one of eight Austin-area runners who ran the marathon with that group.
The half-marathon attracts about 54, 000 runners from all over the world to the North East for the run on 16 September.
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Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
To qualify for it, runners must complete an earlier marathon under a certain time.
Hundreds of other runners were diverted from the marathon course further away, preventing them from getting close to the bombing scene.
As evidence of the latter, it was reported by the New York Times that, for the 2010 marathon, the New York Road Runners expressed a willingness to reimburse the police for more of its costs.
Only a few talented runners enter the New York City Marathon to win.
Marathon officials said more than 22, 700 runners took part in men's and women's marathons and half-marathons, a record for the event.
The light bulb went on for me when I teamed up with thirty runners to race in the NY Marathon to benefit the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
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