Both hosts, Poland and Ukraine, are out, which brings its own test to their enthusiasm to sustain this marathon tournament.
There was also sustained creativity, including marathon songwriting sessions at the house on Lookout Mountain that Joni Mitchell shared with her lover, Graham Nash.
Paula Radcliffe, the world-record holder in the women's marathon, sustained a stress fracture in her left leg at the end of April and was told by her doctors that she should forget about running in the Olympic marathon in August.
In theory, the pace that a runner can sustain in a marathon is a straightforward function of physiology—how well the heart can pump fresh blood through the arteries, how much energy the leg muscles burn, and so on.
I wasn't sure I'd have it in me to sustain another rigorous marathon training season.
In both years, most of the runners who sustained injuries were first-time marathon runners without previous experience of any long distance racing competitions (60.2% in 2009 and 52.7% in 2010).
Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine prospectively if sustained maximal load during an ultra-marathon leads to damage to the foot.
In the United States Olympic trials marathon here in 2007, Keflezighi sustained a hip injury so painful he wondered if he would walk normally again.
In the course of England's marathon innings of 7/903 he sustained a leg injury, which prevented him from batting in either Australian innings.
Since I won't be running any marathons today (I prefer my sustained voluntary pain from a bicycle seat), I have time to consider some of the paradoxes and complications of all this.
