The European champion is 27 seconds off Bashir Abdi’s European record heading into the Oct. 25 race, and 2018 winner Meskerem Assefa has cleared a visa delay to join the women’s field.
NYRR Trailblazers will take teenagers in grades 10 to 12 from no running experience to the Percy Sutton Harlem 5K next summer, announced alongside a report showing NYRR membership has passed 100,000 for the first time.
Blackstone, one of six women who sat down at the start of the 1972 New York City Marathon, enters the NYRR Hall of Fame with George Hirsch and Percy Sutton, and Galloway will receive the Abebe Bikila Award eight months after his death.
The 97-gram racer Sabastian Sawe wore to run 1:59:30 in London joins the list three years after the first Adios Pro Evo made it, and it goes back on sale in the U.S. on Oct. 29.
Casey Neistat, who ran 2:57:41 last year, is back on a list of 60 names, and William Goodge plans to make New York the 50th marathon of a 24-day run through every U.S. state.
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Hassan says an illness held back her training, and O’Keeffe had surgery last week to repair a torn hamstring tendon.
The sold-out race on Saturday, Oct. 17, can use the runway because London City stops flying at lunchtime on Saturdays.
Yoo Ji-won, a KAIST graduate student who ran 2:56:32 at the Seoul Marathon in March, went down with about 500 meters of Sunday’s half-marathon left. No cause of death has been released.
Hawi Feysa and Amos Kipruto won Chicago in the Adios Pro Evo 3 at a race Nike sponsors, and Adidas now has eight of this year’s 12 Major wins and 20 of the 36 podium places.
Fentaye Belayneh won the last two editions by a combined three seconds and ran 1:04:49 in Houston in January. In the men’s race, Habtom Samuel takes on 2023 champion Abel Kipchumba.
Forecasters expect next year to be the warmest the planet has ever measured, and decades of race data show how much a few extra degrees cost marathoners.
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Paul Manson covered 299.5 km in a week on the Enchanted Princess, including 185 laps of the ship’s deck and a final run down an erupting Mount Etna.
Fresh out of college and barely running last fall, the Ohioan has since run the fastest marathon debut by an American and led the U.S. men through 30K in Chicago, and he thinks the people closest to him saw it coming.
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