Sentences with phrase «world marathon»

In my work and career though, I aspire to something more than a middle of the road performance, as I imagine do most of you, so the lesson here comes not from my own experience of running, but from watching champions competing in the Olympics or world marathon majors.

Former world marathon silver medallist Valeria Straneo was a non-starter.

That finishing effort saw her clock 2:18:57 — a performance bettered only by world record - holder Paula Radcliffe, two - time world champion Catherine Ndereba and world marathon majors winner Liliya Shobukhova.

World marathon record - holder Wilson Kipsang, after all, has a half - marathon best of 58:59 and went through halfway last Sunday in Berlin in 61:32.

Fellow Kenyan contenders on Sunday include Florence Kiplagat, the two - time Berlin Marathon winner and world half - marathon record - breaker with 65:12 from Barcelona in February, plus 2011 and 2013 world marathon champion Edna Kiplagat.

Last October it was announced that the Virgin Money London Marathon would host the world marathon event ahead of the championships taking place in Doha, Qatar, from October 22 - 31 as the spring date better suited the race schedules of the leading marathon racers.

World marathon record - holder and Olympic champion among those to challenge debutant Mo Farah over 26.2 miles in April

In October 50,000 children from over 60 countries worked in teams to attack the world marathon record as part of the Save the Children World Marathon Challenge.

Olympic 5000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot is set to go head - to - head with world marathon champion Mare Dibaba in the Lisbon Half Marathon on Sunday ahead of the London Marathon next month.

Among Farah's competition will be world and Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich, while two - time world marathon champion Edna Kiplagat is among those confirmed for the women's race.

Paula Radcliffe, the world marathon record - holder who has led the way when it comes to spreading the anti-doping message, replied to one fan on Twitter who asked her what her face was like at the end of the race by saying: «It wasn't a happy one!

Kenya's Edna Kiplagat successfully defended her women's title in 68:21, with the two - time world marathon champion bouncing back to form after coming fifth in the World Championships marathon in Beijing.

Welshman believes Farah could achieve a world marathon record in the future as well as the British record in the UK capital on Sunday

Edna Kiplagat (Kenya) is a double world marathon champion (2009, 2013), and a New York City Marathon champion (2010).

But then he mentioned the call to Hank, now 17, who was busy training for the 1995 world marathon kayak championships in Spain, where he would finish third.

Not exact matches

The world record for running a half marathon in a suit.

Nike - endorsed elite runner Eliud Kipchoge has run the world's fastest marathon time but missed finishing under the two - hour mark by only 26 seconds — a gap of just one second per mile for the distance of the race.

«I believe that this has everything to do with shoe sales and very little to do with marathoning,» Kevin Hanson, a top American marathon coach, told Runner's World this week.

In Aug. 2016, Ethiopia's Olympic marathon silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa crossed his hands above his head as he finished the race in Rio — calling the world's...

Mark Carney watches above the world's sixth - biggest economic climate as governor of the Financial institution of England and heads a international banking watchdog, but somehow nonetheless finds time to train for a marathon.

Since the blast, I've heard some people say this changes everything for Boston, for the marathon, for Americans» sense of safety in the world.

Also, take the end of October through the last day of December and imagine three full months of non-stop «it's a small world after all» played everywhere you go, in every store, every mall and every business, all day, every day, and then you get home to an evening to yourself and your favorite channel is playing a 10 hour marathon of the old «It's a small world» Disney video that takes you on a magical tour of the ride and a behind the scenes segment on how they did all the animatronics.

I feel like I have enough righteous anger for my sisters world - over that I could run that damn half - marathon today on passion alone.

RODS Racing is comprised of 40 superior athletes who will collectively compete in more than 224 marathons, triathlons and other events this year, raising money to find homes in the United States for orphaned children with Down syndrome who live in other parts of the world.

The Pre-Workout Supplements world was thrown into the spotlight in 2013 and again in 2015 when hyperosmolar sports supplements were recognised to be contributing a small, but significant number of deaths during marathons.

Full marathons seem like a different world right now.

Last weekend, Haile Gebrselassie knocked 29 seconds off the four - year old marathon world record with a.

Yesterday, in Part I of our series on men vs. women, we looked at the evolution of the world record in the marathon event, and how the relatively late entry of women into the event threw a few «scientific» predictions off course!

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Lee Riley, an ex-marine and one time holder of every world record from 400m to the marathon for running whilst carrying a 40 lb backpack, was a frustrating half a second shy of his own world record of 5:17.7.

With two of the world's top five players in Jason Day and Henrik Stenson giving chase, Walker was able to hold off the defending PGA champion and the winner of the season's previous major championship in what was a marathon day at Baltusrol.

The Japanese beat every nation of Southeast Asia in waging war, and history claims that they beat the whole world in the Olympic marathon of 1936.

Paul Panko of Vancouver, B.C. rolled 267 games nonstop, averaged 161 pins over a period of 80 hours and 5 minutes, set a world's marathon live - pin bowling record, in Vancouver.

On the one hand, Arsenal have finally started to convince the many doubters in the football world that we are now a squad that has the balance of talent, steel and all the other things it takes to win the marathon that is the Premier League title race.

Patrick Makau, the world - record holder, and Geoffrey Mutai, winner of both the Boston and New York Marathons in 2011, were left at home.

The featured runners included Kenya's Martin Lel, who won a sprint to the finish for his second London title in three years (in 2:07:41); defending champion Felix Limo, who was in the dash at the end and placed third; world - record holder Paul Tergat (sixth); and reigning New York City Marathon champ Marilson Gomes dos Santos (eighth), plus 2004 Olympic champ Stefano Baldini, former world - record holder Khalid Khannouchi and former half - marathon - record holder Haile Gebrselassie.

Hall owns the fastest marathon time ever run by an American, a truly - world class 2:06:17 at 2008 London.

148:30:56 Time, in hours, minutes and seconds, in which Lloyd Scott, 41, completed the Edinburgh Marathon in a 130 - pound diving suit to set a world record for the slowest marathon.

Toasted by Runner's World magazine as one of the most well - organized marathons in the world, and lauded in France as the nation's «most convivial race,» this annual event in the heart of Bordeaux is as much a celebration of gastronomic enthusiasm as it is a test of aerobic fitWorld magazine as one of the most well - organized marathons in the world, and lauded in France as the nation's «most convivial race,» this annual event in the heart of Bordeaux is as much a celebration of gastronomic enthusiasm as it is a test of aerobic fitworld, and lauded in France as the nation's «most convivial race,» this annual event in the heart of Bordeaux is as much a celebration of gastronomic enthusiasm as it is a test of aerobic fitness.

All wheelchair racers ask is a chance to compete — that is, to fight like hell to beat each other over the toughest marathon courses in the world.

Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway, a skier turned runner, is the fastest woman in the world over 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and in the marathon

Seizing an event that figured to be a curiosity, or at best a harbinger of the inevitable world of professional marathoning, Fleming left a solid field after a mile, took on a grueling course that led from the Hollywood Bowl to the Pacific — far hillier than that of any major marathon — and won by more than three minutes in 2:13:14.4.

That means a victory in every one of the men's events, to wit: 1) the 500, which takes no more than 40 seconds; 2) the slightly less explosive 1,000, in which Eric holds the world record of 1:13.60; 3) the middle - distance 1,500 at roughly 2:15; 4) the 5,000, which demands both endurance and hard driving, at about 8:20; and 5) the muscle - devouring event that is the speed skater's version of the marathon, the 10,000.

Jorgensen has joined the Bowerman Track Club, which includes 2017 New York City Marathon winner Shalane Flanagan, 2017 world championship bronze medalist in the marathon Amy Hastings - Cragg and a slew of other Olympians.

Jurek, a legend in the ultra marathoning world, set the speed record on the Appalachian Trail back in the summer of 2015, hiking through the 2,189 miles from Georgia to Maine in 46 days, eight hours and seven minutes.

58:55 Time, in minutes and seconds, for Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia in Sunday's Rock»n' Roll Arizona half marathon, which broke the world record for that distance by 21 seconds.

all of which bring me to the role of the fans at this critical juncture in our team's history, which is to look at the facts with a rational eye, make sure that the fat cats take responsibility for their decisions and to speak out when the club is failing to pursue only the highest goals, especially when you're one of the riches clubs in the world... so enjoy the victory, but temper those celebrations with the knowledge that one victory doesn't make a season and that to win this marathon you need the prepare accordingly with the proper players, tactics and determined play... so the next two weeks are absolutely crucial if we intend to be contenders and not pretenders

The Clean Water Challenge, the longest kayak race in the world, is so grueling that it attracts elite marathon paddlers from around the world.

Steve Jones, of Wales, a former world - record holder in the marathon, is buying a house in the neighborhood.

Yesterday's London Marathon closed off the big marathons for the next few months, and we now get to look forward to the Fall season, with Berlin (times two, with the IAAF World champs there as well), Chicago and New York the highlights to come.