On the other hand, I started the day on my birthday with a 3 mile run.
The "warmup" for this race was a 2.8-mile run up and down an 1, 100-foot hill.
Simply finding enough drinking water can be a tactical challenge on a 35-mile run through the mountains.
The competition includes a 1.5 mile swim from Alcatraz Island, an 18-mile bike race and an 8-mile run.
Fundraisers have finished a 96-mile run in memory of the 96 football fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster.
My favorite, when the conditions are right, is the 3.5-mile run down the Albula Pass road outside of Bergun.
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The money from that 26-mile run will help support his friends at the center who've survived a much longer journey.
But upon returning from a 24-mile run in the desert, he found that it had been stolen, leaving him stranded.
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On 29 March 1981, thousands of people assembled in Greenwich Park and at 9am, began their gruelling 26.2 mile run.
Saturday to begin the 60-mile run to the next checkpoint at Kaltag, which is 346 miles from the race's finishing point in Nome.
He'd already finished ten marathons and more than a dozen triathlons, including the body-bashing Ironman race in Hawaii (2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of biking and a 26-mile run).
City Hall officials and the marathon's organizers discussed a number of alternatives, including holding a 10-mile run in Manhattan and moving the traditional start of the race out of Staten Island.
Six mornings a week, no matter what the season or which country he is in, Burns unhooks his cochlear implant, leaving him deaf, and goes for a three- or four-mile run.
"I've being doing the same six-mile run in Nottingham for the past seven years and normally I do it in 35 minutes, which is under six minutes a mile, " Froch told BBC Sport.
On the second day of the competitive portion of the race, Buser took his mandatory 24-hour rest at the checkpoint in Rohn after a blistering fast 170-mile run that had put him hours ahead of the other teams.
The watch even lets runners know when they achieve a personal record, like a fastest mile or longest run to date.
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The first day, Mahlum led nine shelter residents in a mile-long run.
Last winter, she went snow shoeing with classmates for the first time and she completed a 7-mile walk-run with her family last May.
At 42 years old, I competed in the Ultraman World Championships, a grueling three-day uber-endurance triathlon circumnavigating the Big Island of Hawaii that involves 6.2 miles of swimming, 260 miles of cycling and culminates with a 52.4-mile double marathon run.
The new 35-mile line will run from Waverley station in central Edinburgh as far as Galashiels and then to Tweedbank where there will be a park and ride which is designed to give access to the network to people from surrounding towns.
And I want them to think -- and this is something that Dean said -- if Dean can run all the way across the country, then I want you to think, as kids, as Dean would say, that you can at least walk a mile, maybe run, you can go outside and play, you can jump, you can do whatever.
The Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile events on Sunday March 16 saw over 100, 000 people take to the streets across the UK to run a Mile and raise money.
Originating in the USA, the sport involves avoiding zombies along a three mile (5km) run with obstacles.
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The first month was hard, Dickinson says -- his knees hurt, his feet hurt and he could barely run a mile.
In 1954, he was one of the pacemakers who helped Roger Bannister become the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
"You call yourself a middle-distance runner when you've run a mile in under four minutes, " Moorcroft, now chief executive of UK Athletics, told BBC Sport.
Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie can run a mile in an astonishing four minutes, 45 seconds, and repeat the performance 26 times in a row.
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