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Caldas da Rainha, often shortened to just "Caldas", [note 2] is located in western central Portugal at . The city lies approximately 76 kilometres (47 mi) as the crow flies, [40] or 91 kilometres (57 mi) by the A8 motorway, [41] north of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42,195 metres (c. 26 mi 385 yd), [1] usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy.
The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, also known as AIMS, is an association of the organisers of long-distance road running races. It was founded in 1982 at a meeting in London of marathon race directors. Its membership was extended in 1986 to include all road races.
More than 840,000 people submitted entries to the 2025 London race (for only about 50,0000 bibs), and the recent 2024 Berlin Marathon broke the record for the largest field ever with 54,280 ...
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
I've never hit the wall before, but I've met enough marathon runners to know its lore. It's common for people to feel physically and mentally burned out toward the end of the marathon, at anywhere ...
The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. [1] It was renamed the IAAF World Road Running Championships in 2006 and reduced in distance to a 20K run, but reverted to the half marathon distance the following year and to the original competition name the year after that. The ...
In recent times, the foremost long distance runners of the last two decades (almost all of them, with the exception of Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia) have participated at least once in the event. The principal winner of all times is now Paul Tergat , of Kenya , who has won the race 5 times (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000).