Sentence examples for marathon on the from inspiring English sources

For now, the focus is a 17-day marathon on the green baize, one which begins in earnest against Scotland's Marcus Campbell on Saturday.

Cruz first achieved national notice last September, when he staged a twenty-one-hour talking marathon on the Senate floor against Obamacare, as part of the political offensive that led to the government shutdown.

Raymond Bett led a Kenyan sweep of the podium at the Athens Classic Marathon on the 2,500th anniversary of the marathon.

The most popular ones will air as part of a Howser marathon on the channel beginning Jan . 5(a Sunday) from 7 p.m. to midnight, and each weekday after that during the show's regularly scheduled 7 30 p.m. slot.

Different distances are recognised, from "sprint" (750m swim/20km cycle/5km run) to "ultra" (3.9km/180km/26.2 miles - yes, that's a full marathon on the end), but the most common - and the one competed in the Olympics - is that outlined above.

I would walk this marathon on the strength of passion.

The marathon on Friday is the first event of the championships.

I hang up and Louis high-fives me: "We're good to go, bro!" Louis runs a half-marathon on the treadmill, then vomits into my decanter.

There were seven of us from Elle magazine running club doing the Paris half-marathon on the morning of Sunday 2 March, in the middle of Paris fashion week (which I attend twice a year as the editor-in-chief of Elle).

My motto is, I live the life I want, and I run marathons on the side.

"We [Rancid] would have marathons on the bus on long drives," he said.