The Boston Marathon Will Proceed As Planned in 2014, Organizers Say Right on: “We are committed to continuing that tradition with the running of the 118th Boston Marathon in 2014,” marathon organizers wrote on Facebook. Read more More
How Fast Do Marathoners Really Run? It’s one thing to hear that Ryan Hall runs an average 4:46 mile over the duration of a marathon’s 26 miles. It’s another thing to experience how fast that really is. So ASICS set up a digital installation that allowed people to race him. Watch. Read more More
Couple Gets Married While Running NYC Marathon As Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries illustrated, a marriage is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes, however, a marriage can begin during a marathon. Such was the case for Raymond Donaldson and Mary Martin on Sunday. Read more More
Run, Lose, But Draw: NYT Illustrator's Special NYC Marathon Some people were live-blogging. Some people were live-tweeting. But during Sunday’s ING New York City Marathon, one man was live-drawing. As he participated in the event. This is Christophe Niemann’s Abstract Sunday. Read more More
How Finishing a Marathon Dead Last, Six Hours Behind the Winner, Can Still Be Inspirational Fauja Singh finished Sunday’s Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon dead last. It wouldn’t exactly be newsworthy, until you find out that Singh is 100 years old, making him the oldest man ever to complete a marathon. Read more More
Rosie Ruiz’d: British Marathoner Catches Bus for Final Six Miles, Finishes Third Rob Sloan, a 31-year-old runner from Sunderland, walked off the course after 20 miles and took the bus for the final 6.2 miles before getting out to re-join the race. Then, knowing the Rosie Ruiz scandal, he smartly waited for the first- and second-place runners to pass. Read more More
Japanese Marathoner Makes Wrong Turn Near Finish We just hope he doesn’t feel like a little harakiri after this one… Read more More