SAN SEBASTIAN MARATHON (25/11/18 – 72)
Sunset from Urgull hill Cycle track and running expo Anoeta sports centre Back in San Sebastian for a third time, after last year experience and a distant participation in 2002…. Read more »
Tag: Marathon
(MY) ESSENTIAL MARATHON KIT
Trying to make lists is always hard work. Each person has different experiences and what may be useful for someone can be an absolute useless for another one. What follows… Read more »
Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes Nice-Cannes (04/11/18 – 71)
Marathon information #ILoveNice Running expo entrance First participation in this marathon, taking advantage of a long weekend (All Saint´s Day) and a visit to some friends in nearby Monaco. I… Read more »
Burgos Marathon (14/10/18 – 70)
Second time in Burgos to run its marathon, after last years’ experience. It combines a half marathon, and running over the same course for another lap, the marathon. Number… Read more »
RUNNING SHOES ON BREAKING THE 2 HOURS MARATHON BARRIER
With the recent marathon world record (WR) of Eliud Kipchoge, which stopped the watch in 2.01.39 in the last Berlin marathon, much has been talked about how long it will… Read more »
MARATHON OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS (V) – Stockholm 1912: KEN McARTHUR (1881-1960)
Start of the 1912 Marathon “I went out to win or die, and it was worth two and a half years working and waiting for.” Ken McArthur Some countries did… Read more »
Vías Verdes Plazaola Marathon (16/09/18 – 69)
St Martin church (Andoain) After a summer with holidays, weeks going easy on training, and some short races during July, this marathon was the comeback after more than 100 days,… Read more »
THE BARKLEY MARATHONS: The race that eats its young (2014, 89min, A Iltis & TJ Kane)
Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell lights a cigarette to signal the start of the Barkley Marathons (Photo by Michael Hodge, used under a Creative Commons License) “If you’re going… Read more »
MARATHON OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS (IV) – London 1908: JOHNNY HAYES (1886-1965) vs. DORANDO PIETRI (1885-1942)
Hayes in 1908 Pietri in 1908 This time around, although Hayes was the official winner of the Olympic marathon, I feel compelled to write also about Pietri, who could be… Read more »
MARATHON OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS (II) – París 1900: MICHAEL THÉATO (1878-1923)
The Olympics in Paris were supposed to be the first ever in modern times, as the city was proposed to hold the Games in 1900, in a meeting that took… Read more »