LATEST RUNNING AND MARATHON NEWS
March 7, 2022
World’s Most Accomplished Mountain Athlete Kilian Jornet Joins Team COROS
Irvine, CA, March 7, 2022/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - COROS Wearables Inc., makers of innovative performance GPS watches is introducing Mountain Running and Ski Mountaineering World Champion Kilian Jornet and World Champion Mountain Runner Emelie Forsberg as its newest Pro Athlete Ambassadors. This partnership is yet another sign of the COROS brand’s commitment...
March 7, 2022
Pic2Go Partnered with The Ventura Marathon to deliver Race Day Photos and Rich Finisher Galleries!
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The fast and scenic Ventura Marathon returned this year, offering a point-to-point marathon (and half marathon) with the perfect amount of downhill starting in Ojai and ending in Ventura. This year the organizers have partnered with Pic2Go to enhance the participants’ experience with auto-delivered free race day...
March 6, 2022
Two Kenyan marathoners suspended for doping
The two prominent Kenyan marathoners have been suspended from competition. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Paul Lonyangata for 19 months for use of the drug Furosemide, and Edward Kiprop Kibet has been banned for three years for nandrolone. Running Magazine
March 4, 2022
Supreme Court reimposes death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber
The Supreme Court on Friday reimposed the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing a federal appeals court ruling that had voided it. By a vote of 6-3, the court rejected defense claims that the judge at Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial improperly restricted the questioning of prospective jurors and was wrong...
March 4, 2022
Shamrock Run Portland Returns for 44th year
PORTLAND, Ore. – March 4, 2022 /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - For those who love lacing up their running shoes and pounding the pavement, imagine Beantown minus the Boston Marathon. Think of the Big Apple missing the New York City Marathon. For two years, that’s what it’s been like for the Portland...
March 4, 2022
US Trail Running Conference Webinar Offers Guidelines to Increase Diversity for Trail Races
Estes Park, CO /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The second webinar in a seven-webinar series produced by the US Trail Running Conference and presented by Marathon Printing, the leading producer of custom printed items for endurance sports, was live on Thursday, February 24. The session subject for was: Diversity and Inclusion, focused on...
March 4, 2022
ShowcasedDean Karnazes appointed Chief Exercise Officer for Afloat
TAMARAC, Fla. /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Afloat, the creators of the reimagined and technologically advanced waterbed, have announced a new partnership with ultrarunner Dean Karnazes. Taking on the honorary title of Chief Exercise Officer, Karnazes will act as an ambassador for the brand, sharing how waterbeds offer a superior level of...
March 3, 2022
ShowcasedSports Backers, Allianz Partners announce partnership for Allianz Partners Richmond Marathon
RICHMOND, VA /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Sports Backers announced today a new partnership with Allianz Partners, making the consumer specialty insurance provider the new title sponsor of the Allianz Partners Richmond Marathon. The 2022 event is set for Saturday, November 12, in downtown Richmond, and also features the CarMax Richmond Half...
March 3, 2022
Showcased“(B)east Coast Badwater” Returns to Bald Head Island
Bald Head Island, NC /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - With 50km and 51-mile race options and a start line at the foot of the Old Baldy lighthouse, the Badwater Cape Fear ultramarathon features a twelve-mile warm-up on the car-free, one-lane-wide roads and maritime forest trails of Bald Head Island, followed by either 19.5 or 39 miles...
March 3, 2022
ShowcasedCelebrating Excellence in Women’s Running
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - American women are running faster than ever, from the elite level all the way down to amateur marathoners. “Every single race, I feel like people are going after records,” says Emily Sisson, who ran the fastest U.S. marathon debut on a record-eligible course. “It’s a cool time right...
