Sentence examples for runners from inspiring English sources
Moroccan runners Lahcen and Mohamad Ahansal, born to a nomadic family near Zagora in the Sahara desert, have dominated the gruelling Marathon des Sables (MdS) ultramarathon for two decades.
Field events at Hampden Park were postponed, runners sloshed through puddles on the track, while the men's and women's road races resembled four-hour training sessions in a carwash.
Rather the opprobrium should be heaped on those players down the years who have so abused the regulations, using them tactically, that the ICC felt it needed to be taken out of their hands, in much the same way as they have done with the provision of runners, another stipulation that was abused.
UTMB organisers say they have avoided the use of around 100,000 disposable beakers since they introduced a rule forcing runners to carry their own.
There are waiters and captains, servers, runners, water men, third-assistant rice spooners, coat-check dons.
Two other Guardian Australia journalists were runners up in separate categories - Andrew Quilty in the Photography category for 'Suffering on Two Fronts in Qabaait', and Paul Daley in the Indigenous category for 'The Bone Collectors' Read more here.
The project with the most votes will be awarded £1,000 of funding, and two runners-up will each receive funding of £500.
His last county Surrey de-registered Pietersen last September, after a summer in which he managed to play only Twenty20 cricket, but remain front-runners among his prospective employers this year.
Arsenal have been handed a daunting task to qualify for the Champions League knockout phase after the draw placed them in Group F with last season's runners-up, Borussia Dortmund, Rafael Benítez's Napoli and Marseille.
Meanwhile Fimleikafelag Hafnarfjardar (FH), who only needed a draw to claim supremacy, were left the disconsolate runners-up.
Brendan Rodgers, the Liverpool manager, is keen to sign a creative player and is believed to have targeted Willian having been frustrated earlier in the summer when the No1 target Henrikh Mkhitaryan turned down the chance to move from Shakhtar and instead opted to join Champions League runners-up Borussia Dortmund.
