Sentence examples for road marathon from inspiring English sources

Then I remember a friend suggesting that if I like mountains and I like running, why don't I do a road marathon on a hilly route.

By the standards of a road marathon or a 10-kilometer race, that is absurdly slow — about 5.2 miles per hour, even taking into account nocturnal moose entanglements.

In what was billed as the world's toughest road marathon, 26.2 miles at high altitude that went up and up and then up some more, hundreds of runners huffed and puffed up one of Tucson's highest peaks.

Switzer made history in 1967 when, as an amateur athlete with big ambitions, she registered for the world's oldest road marathon – in Boston, USA – under the name K Switzer.

A road marathon held for more than 15 years has been reclassified as a "multi-terrain" event because the course has so many potholes.

The last five miles felt very long and painful indeed, reminding me that I haven't completed a road marathon for an entire year.

The 10km run takes place on many of the roads that will make up the 2012 Olympic marathon course.

She vowed to be taken seriously as an athlete (she was: her marathon PB is 2hr 51min 37sec, at Boston in 1975); and to win women entry to road marathons (she did: women were admitted to the Boston marathon in 1972, and a women's marathon event was introduced to the Olympics in 1984).

In Vancouver, British Columbia, where mossy and green mountains rise from the sea, the 25-kilometer Iron Knee race on May 27 attracts runners like Scott McMillan, a 32-year-old Web site developer who started running road marathons five years ago and then switched to trail.

Since I haven't made road marathons an athletic focus as of late, I'm not sure if I'll ever run one that fast again.

Unlike other road marathons I'd done in Washington state, the crowds of runners at the New York City Marathon never thinned out much.