Sentence examples for marathon courses from inspiring English sources

Roeber said he was still seen as an oddity on marathon courses.

He limited himself to certified marathon courses that enabled runners to qualify for Boston if they ran fast enough.

Runners, carrying their clear gift bags and bibs, roamed around, sampling protein shakes, trying on shoes and watching flat-screen TVs showing footage of various marathon courses.

But new measurement guidelines for marathon courses established in 1982 determined that the 1981 course was short by about 150 yards, based on measuring the shortest path covered from start to finish.

The distance between Marathon and Athens became the rough template for the standard 26.2-mile length of marathon courses run by hundreds of thousands around the world each year.

Barefoot runners are not new to marathon courses — Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the marathon in bare feet at the 1960 Rome Olympics — but their ranks have grown in recent years, prompted in part by a bestselling book that promotes the practice and the arrival on the market of several lightweight, thin-soled shoes designed to mimic the feel of running barefoot.

Each marathon course was approximately twenty-five miles, believed to be the length of the route from Marathon to Athens run by Pheidippides in 490 B.C.E.

"That's where the marathon course starts".

I like the marathon course in Boston, too.

For some, the marathon course is sacred ground.

"Instead of a marathon course, you've got a fuel course," San Giorgio said.