Sentence examples for marathoner for from inspiring English sources

"I trained like a marathoner for this," Ms. Gifford said.

She has since been training in the hope of qualifying as a marathoner for the 2012 London Games.

Despite her obvious knack for it, Ms. Barrett does not envision herself as a marathoner for all seasons.

One runner, a 31-year-old marathoner, for example, left behind a wife and 16-month-old son.

Most endurance sports are by now highly evolved, their training regimens a matter of science: if your goal is to become a world-class marathoner, for example, you will almost certainly run between 110 and 130 miles per week.

One of my Facebook friends sent me a job ad last week that mentioned the company would love to hire a marathoner for its Project Manager job.

They run, like all marathoners, for a mixture of pleasure and pain, personal glory and gesture to others.

An important 2008 study, this one from Stanford University, followed middle-aged, longtime distance runners (not necessarily marathoners) for nearly 20 years, beginning in 1984, when most were in their 50s or 60s.

Late Tuesday night and into yesterday morning, exactly one year before the start of the Beijing Olympics, two middle-aged men rode their bikes through Central Park, attending to a critical detail in the selection of America's top male marathoners for the Games.

When it was finally time to ditch our layers of clothes (that made us look more like Occupy Wall Streeters than marathoners) for our 10 40 am start time, I told the butterflies in my stomach to take it easy.

We also added 30 additional participants from a local nursing home for floor item assessment, and 203 participants from a club of ultra-marathoners for ceiling item assessment.