marathon

Inspiring us all at the start of the Tokyo Marathon just a few days away will be this year's tagline for the event - "the day we unite".

For the select few likely to pick up the honours on the day, it will be all about beating everyone else round the 26.2 miles of Tokyo which lie before us.

IN his second article on preparing for the Tokyo Marathon, arts editor Phil Hewitt explains why the route is what matters: But the one great variable is the route that it takes you on, and here you get the great gulf.

Runners from 21 states and the United Kingdom will be in Milwaukee for an indoor marathon in Milwaukee this weekend.

Nearly 39,000 Mumbaikars - ranging from celebrities, industrialists, women, senior citizens to minors, physically-challenged and commoners - are readying themselves to run Sunday morning in the much-awaited and richest sporting event in Asia - the 9th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon.

"I started running seriously at the age of 14 and I've turned 45, but I still look forward to running.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch watchdog group said organizers of this year's Utrecht Marathon discriminated against foreign runners by not allowing them to race for the $13,000 top prize.

Those exhilarating moments when marathoners sprint to the finish line on pure adrenaline can prove fatal to vulnerable hearts, a veteran marathon medical director said Monday.

Organizers of the Dubai Marathon say a new route will take runners past Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, as well as the Middle East's largest shopping mall.

Philadelphia police Officer Jillian Russell, a spokeswoman, says a 21-year-old man collapsed at the finish line.

Diagnosed at age seven with the debilitating Charcot-Marie-Tooth muscular atrophic disease known as CMT, no one expected Michael Falcone to be playing youth tackle football at 12-years-old.

No one except Mike Falcone that is.