The arrival of the annual RAK Half Marathon each February means it’s game-face time for many of the world’s top road racers, most with an eye on a spring marathon. Race day this year, for what is inarguably the world’s fastest half marathon, is Friday 14th February and there is every reason to believe the racing in RAK as well as the times, will once more be supreme. [Read more…]
Enter now for the Music Marathon Festival 2014
Five weeks to go to enter the fifth running of the Music Marathon Festival 2014 events on the island of Lanzarote, race day is on the 1st March. [Read more…]
DHL Stafetten 2013
122.000 feststemte løbere, regeringshold og kendte sportsfolk løb DHL Stafetten 2013 i Fælledparken [Read more…]
Strong Competion for Czech Half
Get ready to check out two athletes with identical personal best times in the 10 km distance – Kenyan runner and winner of last year’s Mattoni Ceske Budejovice Half Marathon, Daniel Chebii and his Ethiopian rival, Mosinet Geremew (both 0:27:36). [Read more…]
Tadese seeks Prague World Record
Zersenay Tadese intends to attack his own world record in the Hervis Prague Half Marathon on Saturday. The 31 year-old Eritrean had established the current best of 58:23 minutes in Lisbon three years ago. [Read more…]
Mutai aiming to regain RAK Title
As for each of the previous six editions, this year’s RAK Half Marathon on the northern shores of the UAE on Friday 15th February, promises fast times and fierce contests in both men’s and women’s races. [Read more…]
Gebrselassie targets hat trick
Haile Gebrselassie goes for a Vienna hat trick. One of the greatest athletes of all times will come back to the Austrian capital and compete in the half marathon, which will be staged parallel to the Vienna City Marathon on 14th April. The 39 year-old Ethiopian has won the OMV Champions Race in the past two years and now intends to add a third win plus possibly attack his own course record. [Read more…]
RAK Half Marathon 2012 Preview
The sixth RAK Half Marathon on February 17th, now a well-established IAAF Gold Label Road Race, promises even more than the usual fare in this tiny corner of the United Arab Emirates, which is saying a great deal for a race that can boast a number of world records and dozens of personal bests from the elite in the previous five editions, including Mary Keitany’s astonishing 65:50 world record just twelve months ago. [Read more…]