Supporting Sustainability and Reducing Waste

Major sporting events like marathons can use up to hundreds of thousands of plastic bottles, not to mention create waste, as runners discard disposable cups and/or bottles along the race course.

Many events are beginning to limit the use of single-serve plastic water bottles. The Harrow Half Marathon in London,

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Holy smokes – did you hear about this?

American woman breaks cycling land speed world record

On Sunday, the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah extreme cyclist Denise Mueller-Korenek not only smashed her own world record, but the long-standing men’s record as well.

Read on to find out how this cyclist hit the remarkable speed of 296 km/h to

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Planning your first marathon this fall?

Check out this Runner’s World article, The Less-Is-More Marathon Plan, about how to run your best marathon ever on just 3 days a week. Here’s an excerpt:

“The restrictions on mileage will decrease over-training and burnout, and with several days of cross-training, it should cut your injury-risk substantially. This may

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Congratulations Steve Gathje – you’re amazing!

The official definition of a running streak, as adopted by the Streak Runners International, Inc., and United States Running Streak Association, Inc., is to run at least one mile (1.61 kilometers) within each calendar day.

Seems impossible, but Steve Gathje did it – ran every day (once every 24 hours),

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Figuring Out How Many Miles to Run a Week

Planning to do some fall training and racing? The following six rules by Ashley Mateocan of Runner’s World will help you figure out just how far you need to go.

  1. The longer the race, the higher the mileage
  2. Mileage requirements increase as performance goals increase
  3. Not all miles are created
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You’ll be inspired by this couple’s passion

“These timid beginners quickly turned into ultrarunners, doing longer events like the Matterhorn Ultra 46K skyrace in Switzerland and the 48K Transgrancanaria Marathon in the Canary Islands of Spain. Becoming world travelers with their running and experiencing great destinations, they wanted to give back to help others realize what thrills

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