Marathon

To become an elite athlete at marathon, you need the right diet, to surround yourself with the right people that know how to train for marathons, what training is best for you etc. Of course you need to train, be disciplined and never give up. If you get injured, don't let it get you down, never give up, but don't push yourself too far when injured, it might worsen the injury and cripple you even more! Still push boundaries and never tell yourself that you can't do it. You CAN do it! Remember not only to train by running, but also train your core muscles since they can make you improve a great deal in EVERY sport, since it's the connection between all the muscles! Stay strong Roar and Kill! Sean Peter Brylov

The youngest competitor to ever complete the Sun Valley Half Marathon was Amanda Passey at the age of 12.

Yes, at the 2005 London Marathon.

After the race she said she was having cramps and the only way she could finish was to relieve herself, which she did on the side of the circuit in front of the crowd and television cameras at about the 22 mile mark. She apologized and said it was the same condition that hit her at the 2004 Olympics in Athens where she dropped out of the race.

She must have known what she was doing because she won the women's competition at the 2005 London Marathon in a time of 2:17:42. It was her third win in the London Marathon.

Paula Radcliffe didn't have a poo during the London marathon. She stopped for a wee.

There is no national or world standard. Races such as the Boston and New York City Marathons require all participants to be 18 years old, while other races require entrants to be at least 16, and a smaller % of races impose no age standards at all. It is generally considered unwise for people under the age of 18 to run marathons due to the damage incurred by immature bodies.

The current world record for a 5k run is 12 minutes, 26 seconds, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_metres.

How many years over 50? What is your weight, gender, present fitness level and training status.
I could still run a 1.19 at 50, however at 53 I am now only managing 1.24 at present. (I was 1.15 at 47). After 50 it is more difficult to predict times, the body cannot take the same effort required in training. It is really important to include rest days in one's schedule, it is better to set 1 mile target times and stick to them i.e. 8 mins very mile etc. The most elementary error to make is to not do the training and too start off too quickly.
Best of luck in your challenge, a time of under 2 hours would be considered to be acceptable and suitably challenging and would require 9 minutes per mile.

After personally finishing 35 marathons I can still say this is not a simple answer. It certainly depends on how hard you pushed it. I have completed marathons totally exhausted and followed the "rest one day for every mile rule." (26 days) I have friends that "participate" in marathons but run very slowely and run one marathon each month. Frank Shorter, silver medalist in the Olympic marathon said, "Run your next marathon when your blue toenails have grown out!" It takes about 6 months to regrow a toenail!

At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, the marathon distance was changed to 26.2 miles to cover the ground from Windsor Castle to White City stadium, with the 2.2 miles added on so the race could finish in front of royal family's viewing box. This added two miles to the course, and is the origin of the Marathon tradition of shouting "God save the Queen!" (or other words relating to the Queen) as mile post 24 is passed. After 16 years of extremely heated discussion, this 26.2 mile distance was established at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as the official marathon distance.

a man ran a long way and died because of it they decided to name it a marathon

the first olympics started` in the 1800 's

A marathon is 26.2 miles.

You can walk in most marathons, incl. the NYC Marathon, as long as you finish within the courses time limit. For the NYC Marathon this is 8.5 hours.

Larger marathons usually start runners in "waves" based on your anticipated completion time. If you plan on walking, for safety reasons it's best to start your race with the last wave.

It all depends on how fit you are. The men's world record is somewhere around 2 hours 6 minutes. The women's world record is around 2 hours 20 minutes. Breaking 3 hours is the goal for many runners who are not world class.

They lost.

October 10, 2010. That's according to the Bank of America Chicago Marathon office as of this morning, 28 August 2009. The 2011 date is also on Columbus Day weekend, October 9, 2011.

A common story is that it was Philippides, however he was dead by then, having been sent to Sparta to summon their assistance, and came back hallucinating and died from the stress of the 120 km run.

After the battle, the Athenians realised that the Persian cavalry had been embarked and was being rowed around the Sunion peninsula to then gallop up and take Athens with traitors opening the gates of the city for them. The Athenian army ran the 26 miles over the hills with their armour and weapons to form up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry was disembarking. The Persians, having lost their infantry, and frustrated in their next attempt, went home.

So the direct answer to the question is 9,000 warriors ran from Marathon to Athens.

This mass run was the origin of the Marathon race. Runners today get it pretty easy without the shields, armour, weapons and sandals of the first runners.

In 1976, Terry developed osteogenic sarcoma, a type of bone cancer. After seeing all the suffering cancer caused, he was inspired to raise money for cancer research. So he ran to raise money in hopes of eradicating the disease.

search it up on google.

Terry Fox started his run in St. John's, Newfoundland and ended his run due to lung cancer in

Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Because it was back in time during a war in Greece where a messenger ran from a town called marathon to pass on some relavant message about the enemy and the distance was 26.2 miles. So during the olymoics they created the event to commemorate that run.

That has happened twice ...

1) Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia at the 1960 Games in Rome and 1964 Games in Tokyo.

2) Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany at the 1976 Games in Montreal and 1980 Games in Moscow.

well the fastest maraton run was in 2h03:59 by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia. 2h03:59 converts to 123m59s which converts further to 7439seconds. divide by 26 as there are 26miles in a marathon and you get 286.115 to 3 decimal places

This is a common and unique problem with the Z24 engine. It is cause by the timing tensioner seeping oil while shutdown. The chain actually rattles on it's housing until oil pressure is built up again and brings the timing chain to the appropriate tension again. I have a 1996 Nissan Pickup with about 150,000 miles on it and it has done it since it had about 50,000 miles (I bought it new with 12 miles on it).

I would assume that the constant rattling at startup would lead to a reduce lifespan of the timing chain, but it is actually not common for one to snap. One of those strange anomalies that we live with, because the trucks are so great (and otherwise bulletproof!) The god awful noise it makes when the steering wheel is turned to the limits to the right and allowed to roll forward or back is another, normal bad sounding thing!

no women has run 2 miles in 4 mins. heck no person has run 2 miles in 4 minutes. the fastest mile is 3:43.

On the Plain of Marathon in Attica, 26 miles north of the city of Athens.