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Marathon runners in 2007 A shadow run of the half marathon, held at Forward Operating Base Ghazni in Afghanistan in 2011. The Houston Marathon is an annual marathon usually held every January in Houston, Texas, United States, since 1972. With thousands of runners and spectators, it is the largest single day sporting event in the city.
He finished fifth, in 2:13:16, at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Buffalo, New York, and fourth in the Olympic Trials 10,000-meter run in the same year. [ 2 ] He was the top American finisher, finishing 24th overall, at the 1977 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race .
41-year-old Matty Gregg ran from Apple Park in Cupertino, California, to Concord, New Hampshire, from November 6, 2018, to August 7, 2019. The run spanned a total of 275 days through 24 states. He totaled 5,425 miles (8,731 km), interviewing hundreds of people for his sequel to Alexis de Tocqueville's essays, Democracy In America. He also ...
He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word νικῶμεν (nikomen [8] 'We win!'), as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen ('hail, we are the winners') [9] and then collapsed and died.
Half Marathon 1:09:14 1984 Houston Marathon: Houston, Texas: 6th Marathon 2:12:52 1984 Hospital Hill Half Marathon Kansas City, Missouri: 1st Half Marathon 1:05:14 1984 Defeet Diabetes Hutchinson, Kansas: 1st 10K 29:47 1984 Twin Cities Marathon: Minneapolis, United States: 1st Marathon 2:11:35 1985 Statehood Days Run Lincoln, Nebraska: 3rd 10 ...
Paul Masson Marathon Susan Munday 2:43:17 1979 Houston, Texas Houston Marathon: Susan Petersen 2:46:17 1978 New York City, New York New York City Marathon Marty Cooksey: 2:41:49 1977 Minneapolis, Minnesota City of Lakes Marathon Leal-Ann Reinhart 2:46:34 1976 Culver City, California: Western Hemisphere Marathon Julie Brown 2:45:33 1975
During the 365 days of the last year, Young ran 370 races that were at least 26.2 miles long. Some of these races were "ultra-runs," which are even longer. The story behind the man who ran the ...
At the time, she was recorded as being the eight fastest female marathon runner in the world, and the fastest in Texas state. [6] In the same year, Doolittle won the marathon event at the Amateur Athletic Union Championships. [2] In 1977, Doolittle won the Houston Marathon again, [2] [3] [5] in a record time. [7]