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The 10K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of ten kilometres (6.2 miles). Also referred to as the 10K road race , 10 km , or simply 10K , it is one of the most common types of road running event, alongside the shorter 5K and longer half marathon and marathon .
Throughout the 19th century Galveston remained Texas' dominant metropolis and the communities around the bay were strongly tied economically and culturally to the city though, as Houston began to develop, so did the Bay Area's ties to it. The construction of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad further spurred growth in the area. [32] [33]
Map of Kemah. Kemah is located in the northeastern corner of Galveston County at (29.5425, –95.0203) [8] and is part of the Clear LakeIt is bordered to the west and south by League City, to the northwest by Clear Lake Shores, to the southeast by unincorporated Bacliff, and at its northern end by Seabrook across the Clear Creek Channel in Harris County.
Landry's, Inc. acquired property along the Kemah Waterfront in 1997 and opened the Kemah Boardwalk in 1998. In 2007, the Boardwalk Bullet, a high-speed wooden roller coaster opened on the boardwalk. The 96-foot-tall, 3,236-foot-long roller coaster is built on a 1-acre footprint, making it one of the most compact roller coasters in the world.
The 10K Valencia (Catalan: 10K València; also known as the 10K Valencia Ibercaja for sponsorship reasons [4] [5]) is an annual road-based 10K run hosted by Valencia, Spain, since 2009. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 2 ] The marathon is a World Athletics Label Road Race and a member of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races .
The Boardwalk Bullet is a wooden roller coaster at the Kemah Boardwalk amusement park in Kemah, Texas, United States.Opened August 31, 2007, it is the only wooden roller coaster in Greater Houston, and one of only four wooden coasters in Texas. [1]
They are held on the same course in opposite directions, similar to the Comrades Marathon in South Africa, although unlike the Comrades, the "north" (up) and "south" (down) versions are run in the same year. The "South" (running down) Peachtree was founded in 1970 and has been the world's largest 10k race, [1] [2] since the late 1970s. [3]
The Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K, also known as the Monument Avenue 10K, is an annual 10-kilometer road running event, sanctioned by USA Track and Field. The race is run on historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia .