From Runningusa.org by Jenny Schmitt…
Marusin, Vinitskaya, Chirlee and Cherobon Win ING Georgia Marathon & Half Marathon - Three event records fall; more than 10,700 participants on new course for 2nd edition
ATLANTA - (March 30, 2008) - Three […]
Inaugural footrace aims to energize local running community and provide entertaining destination event for runners and walkers of all abilities
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., (March 25, 2008) — Elite Racing, Inc., organizer of the inaugural Rock ‘n’ Roll San Antonio Marathon & ½ Marathon, promised to energize the local running community and provide an entertaining destination event […]
HOUSTON - (March 18, 2008) - The Houston Marathon Committee has increased the number of participants it will allow into the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon to 18,000 for the January 18, 2009 event, a bump of 1,000 over the 2008 race cap.
The 18,000 limit is a combined cap for the marathon […]
Yesterday’s marathon and half marathon events raised an estimated $18.6M for the fight against cancer. An estimated 20,000 runners and walkers turned out for the fourth annual event in San Francisco. Over those for years and estimated $60 million has been raised. Racers came from every state in the US and from 18 countries. […]
Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands set a new half-marathon world record at the world road running championships in Udine, Italy this weekend. Kiplagat completed the course in 1 hour, 6 minutes, 25 seconds. Kiplagat’s time was 19 seconds faster than the prior record set by Elena Meyer eight years ago.
“Everything just went perfect today,” said […]
An estimated 11,800 runners and walkers descended on downtown San Jose yesterday for the second annual Rock n Roll San Jose Half Marathon. But this isn’t an ordinary marathon… it’s a rock n roll marathon, so of course it had music…. Lots of music. Elite racing’s general manager Elizabeth O’Brien and her team selected […]
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon San Jose this Sunday will feature several men who have qualified or are attempting to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
Former world and current American record holder in the marathon Khalid Khannouchi is arguably the lead American runner in the event. He’s won the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon […]
The eagerly anticipated marathon debut of half-marathon world record holder Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya at the ING New York City Marathon November 4.
“Sammy rocked the running world by running faster than anyone else at the half-marathon distance, faster than any of the stars of our sport, including the veterans in this year’s field,” Mary Wittenberg, […]
The city of San Antonio, Elite Racing and RunTex announced yesterday the creation of a major running event in ’08… The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon San Antonio. This marathon and half-marathon will replace the city’s existing Marathon of the Americas which began life in 1975 as the Las Colonias Marathon.
Elite Racing, which produces five other […]
