EVENT NEWS
Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about running, cycling and triathlon races and events? Scroll below to view all endurance sports event news.
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December 11, 2022
Ironman Triathlon discontinues Alaska race after just 1 year
Nearly as quickly as it arrived, the Ironman Alaska triathlon race has been discontinued. The inaugural race was held Aug. 7 in Juneau, but it won’t return for a second running, Ironman announced Friday. ADN
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December 8, 2022
How one race is trying to zero out emissions
Bikes are thought of as a green mode of transportation, but a bike race and all the vehicles around it can almost at first glance seem like the antithesis of sustainability. The cycling community is starting to take its environmental impacts and carbon footprint seriously. Velo News
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November 30, 2022
UCI bans team cars from following time trial riders too closely
Tthe UCI has ruled that cars must now follow riders at 15 metres rather than 10 as before, although it is not known how commissaires will measure this in race. Cyclingnews spoke to an aero expert, Richard Kelso, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, who explained that the...
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November 30, 2022
Tour de France will skip Paris finale in 2024
For the first time in race history, the Tour de France will not conclude in Paris in 2024. The final stage of the Tour has always been in Paris (or in nearby suburbs), and since 1975 the final stage has ended on the Champs-Élysées. La Gazzetta reports that an official...
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November 25, 2022
Will you dare run a marathon on a frozen Pangong Lake?
One of Ladakh’s most frequented attractions, the Pangong Tso Lake is set to become the venue for India’s first- frozen lake marathon. The maiden edition of the Pangong Frozen Lake Marathon is scheduled to take place on 20 February 2023, and registrations have already begun. CN Traveller
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November 22, 2022
Chicago Marathon – 7 Disqualified, 40 More Likely Cut The Course after 35K Checkpoint
Almost immediately following the Chicago Marathon, I began to receive emails about runners with suspicious splits. In particular I received reports of suspicious splits between 35k and 40k. Looking at the map, it is easy to see how runners could cut over 2 miles off the course by skipping the...
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November 14, 2022
This Strava Data Shows How Much Slower You Run a Race When It’s Hot
In 2021, the high temp was a cool 55 degrees—ideal, if not a little warm for some runners—compared with the 2022 high of 74 degrees plus humidity. Strava found that its users’ who logged a finish in NYC ran an average finishing time in 2021 of 4:09:36, and this year...
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November 13, 2022
What Does It Take to Close the Roads for a Triathlon?
When endurance athletes think of a race director, they might picture the person on the loudspeaker shouting instructions race morning, or the one ordering too many extra-large tees and not enough mediums. But behind the scenes, the bulk of a race director's work (and budget) goes toward securing and preparing...
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November 8, 2022
Ultrarunner Breaks 3 World Records — On a Manual Treadmill
Reichelt broke the records on Friday, Nov. 4, at the 23rd Street Life Time Fitness gym in Manhattan, N.Y. The event also served as a fundraiser for the Life Time Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with nationwide school districts to improve nutrition and health for children across the country. Gear...
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November 1, 2022
Golden Ticket Controversy At This Year’s Javelina Jundred
Last weekend’s hyper-competitive race in Arizona’s Sonoran desert drew top talent, record-breaking paces, and confusion around nonbinary award categories. Trailrunner
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October 27, 2022
Track Bicycle Racing to Enter the Metaverse
A new partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and Infinite Reality will bring an immersive metaverse experience to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Champions event in London on Dec. 2-3, 2022. Visitors get the opportunity to preview “an immersive experience to engage fans,” a press release said. Gear Junkie
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October 24, 2022
London Marathon ballot site down as runners rush to find out whether they got a place
The London Marathon’s website has broken, as runners rushed to find out the results of its ballot. Users were unable to find out whether they would be running the event in 2023, amid a major outage on the website. Independent
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October 23, 2022
Explained: why camera drones are a long way off replacing helicopters in cycling races
It’s what we at Cycling Weekly have assumed for a while, too. We wrote in our eight environmental proposals in August that race organisers should down the choppers and embrace the modern technology of drones. Cycling Weekly
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October 17, 2022
Non-binary runners in NYC Marathon to get cash prize for 1st time
For the first time in the history of the New York City Marathon, prize money will be awarded to non-binary runners during next month's race. The New York Road Runners announced on Monday that the top five finishers in the category will receive a cash prize. ESPN
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October 11, 2022
Badger 100 Runner Claims 2nd Place – After Being Removed from Result
Missing splits and inconsistencies in the runner's story leads to removal from results. Marathon Investigation
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October 9, 2022
Ironman World Championship: Increased equality comes at a cost
The question many are pondering at this year's Ironman World Championship is whether the decision to have the female triathletes compete two days before the men has been an entirely positive development. The organizers argued that having the women compete in a separate event on a different day than the men generates more attention...
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October 5, 2022
Bank of America Marathon in Chicago adds nonbinary division for 1st time ever
The Chicago Marathon opened a nonbinary runner category for the first time ever ahead of the 2022 weekend event. Jessica Gorden-Song is an accomplished runner who works at Fleet Feet Sports, coaches other runners and runs an Instagram page for non-binary runners. abc 7 Chicago
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October 3, 2022
Rock ‘N’ Roll Elite Half Marathon Series Returns as Runners Prepare to Take on The United Airlines Rock ‘N’ Roll Running Series San Jose on October 8-9, 2022
SAN JOSE, Calif. (October 3, 2022) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Speed City, USA is set to host the United Airlines Rock ‘n’ Roll® Running Series San Jose on Saturday and Sunday, October 8-9, 2022 as the Rock ‘n’ Roll EliteTM Half Marathon Series makes its return to the west coast. Race...
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September 30, 2022
Hawaii Ironman World Championships 2022: By The Numbers
For the first time in the event’s 40-plus year history, the 2022 Ironman World Championship race will be held as a two-day event, on Thursday, Oct. 6 (led by the women’s pro field and half the age-groupers) and on Saturday, Oct. 8 (with the men’s pros and more age-groupers). The...
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September 27, 2022
Kona Locals Ask Ironman Visitors for Respect
The relationship between Kona and Ironman is a complicated one. Certainly, tourism is a large part of the island’s economy, and during the COVID pandemic, a decline in travel meant a loss for most residents. Many businesses closed, and hotels and restaurants operated at a fraction of their capacity. When...
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September 27, 2022
‘Disappointing’: HOKA runners didn’t complete full half marathon on South Side, organizers reveal
There are no signs of the HOKA Chicago Half Marathon in Jackson Park that happened Sunday. But, there has been an adjustment online. The distance that had been advertised as 13.1 miles is now 12.6. Steele said she began training in April with 13.1 miles as her goal. She said...
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September 21, 2022
Runners Can Exhale! No Cutoff for 2023 Boston Marathon
The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) announced on September 21 that there is no cutoff time for the 2023 race. Applicants who ran a verified qualifying time for their age group and gender during the qualifying period will be accepted into the race, which will be held on April 17, 2023....
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September 21, 2022
Ironman’s Big Bet On Trail Running
When the news broke in May 2021 that Ironman and UTMB were joining forces, the small corner of the internet that hosts the trail running community nearly lost its collective mind. Skeptics lamented the end of trail running’s eccentric, community-centric culture, while optimists celebrated the likelihood of better race organization,...
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September 20, 2022
How Is Ironman Going to Pull off Two Days of Racing in Kona?
It’s been three years since the last Ironman World Championship race in Kona, though one would not be faulted for feeling like it’s been much, much longer. After all, so much has happened in the world and in the sport since Jan Frodeno and Anne Haug broke the finish-line tape...
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September 19, 2022
Their Sport Is on the Verge of Extinction. These Runners Won’t Give It Up.
Last year, the ultramarathon governing body dumped many multiday races from their catalog. So a group of fringe runners created their own championship, and just kept running. NY Times (Paywall)