Sentence examples for marathon best from inspiring English sources

He could surely see the approaching orange jersey of Wilson Chebet, a Kenyan a decade younger, and with a career marathon best four minutes faster.

That included her marathon best of 2hr 18min 20sec, the second fastest time in history set while winning her third Chicago marathon in 2011, as well as her first and second places in London in 2010 and 2011.

But the athlete whose marathon best is still three minutes better than anyone else in history is tough on herself.

She has won World Championships, destroyed British records at every distance from 3,000m up and, with her marathon best of two hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds, she holds a record that could go unchallenged for decades to come.

The win continued Kiprop's meteoric rise of 2010 – a year in which he had gone from a low-profile circuit runner to the 10,000 metres Kenyan and African champion, with a sub-60 minute half marathon best after wins in Paris and Lille.

A few weeks later, in Jacksonville, Florida just six weeks before Olympic trials would begin, only nine weeks into his marathon training he requalified with an even faster time, two seconds off his half-marathon best: 1 04 33.

I ran my half marathon personal best without a watch.

The British long-distance runner, who finished in seventh place in both the 5,000 and 10,000m at this summer's Olympic Games, crossed the line in a time of 69min 20sec, just 27sec outside her half marathon personal best.

This approach to running a marathon is best accomplished when done with a group.

He laughs often, plays golf and runs marathons (his best time was in New York, 4 hours 50 minutes).

That is not a time to be sniffed at but it leaves him with something to make up over the reigning champion Geoffrey Kamworor, who has a half-marathon personal best of 58 54 and also ran Farah close over 10,000m at the world championships in Beijing last year.