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A man says he is feeling "every emotion under the sun" after running a marathon every day this year. James Cooper, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, said he set himself the challenge of running 26 ...
Marathoning for Mortals : A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon. Rodale Books. ISBN 1-57954-782-6. Bingham, John; Hadfield, Jenny (2007). Running for Mortals : a commonsense plan for changing your life through running. Rodale Books. ISBN 978-1-59486-325-7. Bingham, John (2011).
Pheidippides is said to have run 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Marathon to Athens to deliver news of the victory of the Battle of Marathon, and, according to Herodotus, to have run from Athens to Sparta. This latter feat also inspired two ultramarathon races, the 246-kilometre (153 mi) Spartathlon and 490-kilometre (300 mi) Authentic Pheidippides Run.
[3] After that, he started running long distances to stay healthy. He found success with the novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood. Much of the book describes his training for the New York City Marathon; he describes running from Athens to Marathon, Greece, an ultramarathon in Hokkaido and a triathlon in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture.
Marathon: 2:49:56 [3] Marilyn Bevans was the first sub-three-hour, African-American female marathon runner, and the first national-class black female American marathoner. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She came in second place at the 1973 Maryland Marathon with a time of 3:31:45, and again came in second at the 1977 Boston Marathon , where she ran 2:51:12.
Harriette Thompson (27 March 1923 – 16 October 2017) was an American classical pianist who later held the record for the oldest woman to run a marathon, at age 92, and also the oldest woman to complete a half-marathon, at 94.
Jeff Galloway (born July 12, 1945 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American Olympian and the author of Galloway's Book on Running.. A lifetime runner, Galloway was an All-American collegiate athlete and a 1972 US Olympic Team member in the 10,000 meters.
For example, in 1988 he told Oprah he "probably" would never run for office. Eleven years later, he told Larry King that he was considering a political run, and that he was a registered Republican.