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Typically held on either roads or running tracks, common distances range from 3,000 metres (1.9 mi) up to 100 kilometres (62.1 mi). The current race walking contests at the Summer Olympics are the 20 kilometres race walk (men and women) and the marathon race walk mixed relay, the latter of which debuted at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
Emma Rowena Gatewood (née Caldwell; October 25, 1887 – June 4, 1973), [1] better known as Grandma Gatewood, was an American ultra-light hiking pioneer. After a difficult life as a farm wife, mother of eleven children, and survivor of domestic violence, she became famous as the first solo female thru-hiker of the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail (A.T.) in 1955 at the age of 67.
This 72-year-old boss is training to complete 100 marathons by age 100 — and he only started running at 50. How a healthy lifestyle in old age can make your money go the extra mile
In May 2019, Katie Wright became the first woman to win a backyard ultra event running 201 kilometres (125 mi) in 30 hours during an event in New Zealand. [15] She beat 5 other women and 40 men to emerge victoriously. Later that year in October 2019, Maggie Guterl would win Big's Backyard Ultra covering more than 402 km in 60 loops. [16]
The earliest men's and women's marks recognized as world records by the IAAF are 65:44 set by Ron Hill in 1965 and 75:04 set by Marty Cooksey in 1978. [ 2 ] On 30 March 1991, Arturo Barrios ran a world record distance of 21.101 km in one hour , becoming the first man to run the half marathon distance in under one hour. [ 11 ]
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 .
Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to two miles (3218.688 metres). The standard middle distances are the 800 metres , 1500 metres and mile run , although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. [ 1 ]