The Chicago half marathon is the warm up race before the real Chicago marathon. The 2010 Rock n Roll Chicago half marathon took place over the weekend, over 25,000 participated in the 21K event. The photos and pictures from the event showed plenty of bands on the course plus enough crowd support.  Image courtesy of competitor.com For a full photo gallery of Rock N Roll Chicago half Marathon go to Chicago.Competitor Site.
If you asking for the amount of water you should drink before, during and after running half marathon race then this guide will help calculate the right amount. The question how much water you should drink during a half marathon race depends on 5 factors 1. Your weight Weight and How much water to drink The leaner you are the less water you require. If you have watched Kenyan runners run a marathon you might noticed they don’t drink a lot of water, it could be something to do with their lean bodies. How much you sweat The weather of the day. Level of Experience To know exactly how much water to drink, I recommend you take a sweat test. The more you train, the fitter you become and you body is able to use water efficiently. Keep in mind drinking too much water while running can be lethal, at worst too much water can kill, see my post dangers of drinking too much water.
There is a group known as Hash house harriers who describe themselves as a drinking club with a running problem, the members meet for beer + some easy runs! But a guy in San Francisco took it all to a new level. He drunk 13 beers while running the 2010 San Francisco half marathon. Although beer is served in small amount in certain races, HHH group serves beer at mile 21 of Chicago marathon. Drinking 13 beers while running 13 miles is a bit over the top.
Effects of Beer While Running? Our hero has done it so he is best placed to tell us ; From his blog this is what he said.
You can read his San Francisco half marathon race report at his awesome blog exercisingwhileintoxicated
If you want to set a new PR or a course to help you qualify for Boston or New York marathon then you need to look at this list of fastest US marathon. 1. Chevron houston marathon in Texas 2. Austin Marathon 3. Lincoln National Gurad marathon 4. Rite Aid Cleveland marathon 5. Grandmas marathon 6. Chicago marathon 7. Steamtown marathon 8. Philadelphia marathon 9. California marathon marathon 10. Las Vegas marathon Factors considered in compiling the list were : Flatness, weather, size of the field and number of turns. Source running times
Different runners have different goals as to why they run a marathon. One popular reason is lose weight. Fitness and dietary experts say marathons increasingly are the exercise equivalent of crash diets, with similarly disappointing results. There’s no evidence that running a marathon leads to lasting weight loss, marathon researchers say. And it’s unknown how often such runs initiate a lifetime of steady exercise. Indeed, in a long-term fitness sense, marathons are really sprints; the true marathon is the exercise program that lasts for decades, fitness experts say. For you to lose weight from marathon running you have to make a life time commitment. Promise to keep running for the rest of your life because if you engage in marathon running you may see instant result but if you stop you shall region all the pounds you have lost. Eric Zorn, a popular Chicago Tribune columnist, chronicled with passion and humor his training for the 1998 Chicago Marathon. Along the way he convinced scores of other novices to follow suit. But after three successful marathons, Mr. Zorn gave it up, and he eventually regained the 40 pounds he’d lost.
If you’ve never run a marathon or you’re trying to run your fastest time ever, you may consider registering and running in one of these flat marathon courses around USA. Most of this marathon allow you to qualify for Boston marathon. Chicago Marathon. Chicago is a flat and fast marathon. Many of over 30,000 runners run it for its speed. The only downside is that the weather can be unpredictable some years, too hot of too cold defeating the flat course advantage. Philadelphia Marathon This Pennsylvania marathon has a flat course, the fact that the marathon is ran in late November when the weather is cool gives it an ideal marathon environment for a fast race. Carlifornia International Marathon Held in Sacramento California, the marathon is touted as “The Fastest Course in the West.” Cleveland Marathon Held in cleveland Ohio in Mid May. Flat marathons around New York Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon This Albany New York marathon, Running Times magazine calls it one of the fastest marathon routes in the country. Wineglass Marathon The marathon is held in Corning New York. The Wineglass Marathon yields one of the highest percentages of runners qualifying for the Boston Marathon.
It was an interesting 2009 Chicago marathon. Our good Spectators were their to record the memeory with this awesome photos from 2009 Chicago marathon. The photos were submited to chicago tribune website. All rights are to respective owners and courtesy of Chicago tribune.
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Marathon business is a competitive business. In the USA alone over 400 marathons are organised each year targeting something like 400,000 runners. The big marathons such as New York Marathon, Boston marathon and the Chicago marathon have no problem attracting runners, they dont even need to spend alot on marketing because it is the runners that come to them. But for many marathon races how to attract runners is a big headache. Any race director who is organising a marathon and is wondering how he can attract more runners needs to read the following case studies. I read them from raonoke dot com. Case Studies of formers struggling marathons and how they solved the problem The Country Music Marathon in Nashville, Tennessee The race started 10 years ago with hilly course, and participation fell off from 7,500 the first year to 6,300 the second year, said Adam Zocks, the race’s general manager. Organizers flattened the course and added a half-marathon. Last year, the races had a combined 31,000 participants. The Mount Rushmore Marathon. The mount Rushmore marathon in the black hills of South dakota which had a mountainous course has seen steady growth in recent years, says Steve Kurtenbach, president of All Sports Central, which organizes the race. He attributed part of that to adding a second, easier marathon course that now draws more runners than the original. From this two case studies is clear that if the marathon course is hilly and tough a marathon race will find it difficult attracting willing runners, if a race directors manages to convince some novice local runners to participate, they will have a hard time such that they will not participate again. But what about a race that with an easy flat course but struggles to attract runners. Few marathon race can survive on local participation. The race director and the organisers must target runners from out of town. To get out of town runners to come the organisers must give them a good reason, rather than the marathon alone, as to why they should visit the town. Like the organisers of country music marathon added “part of the Country Music Marathon’s success was people realizing that Nashville was a great destination apart from the race.” Another well market marathon is the Suntrust Richmond marathon, the marathon targets first time marathon runners with the tagline “America’s most friendliest marathon”
Haile Gebreselassie Vs Samuel Wanjiru. I had hoped this two will race together this year so that we can know who is the king of the full marathon. Samuel Wanjiru had hoped to take on Haile at 2009 Berlin Marathon but he failed to get invitation to the Berlin Marathon from the organisers. I feel the organisers bowed to the demands of Haile who has previously been quoted saying he prefers to race against the clock rather than go head to head and worry about the athlete behind his neck. After failing to challenge Haile in Berlin, Wanjiru has entered 2009 Chicago marathon. What is interesting is that Chicago is a flat course just like Berlin. If the weather cooperates, expect Wanjiru to attack Haile record time. Berlin Marathon is on September 20th While Chicago marathon will be on October 11th. After the Berlin marathon Wanjiru will have ample time to reflect and prepare to better Haile’s effort. A local paper here in Kenya caught up with Samuel Wanjiru on a 35K run along Nyahururu – Gilgil road last monday and the 22 year old athlete played down the Berlin politics and insisted he is 100% focused on 2009 Chicago Marathon.
With hundreds of marathons held around major cities in the US not all marathons are the same. Some marathons are harder than others and some are easy to run.A good example is Boston marathon, even without its requirement for proof of running a previous marathon, the hilly boston route would be handful for a marathon newbie. Most beginners choose to run nearer home but if you are an adventure seek you can choose a marathon from a different city. In choosing a marathon to run a beginner should ask is the course flat or hilly. If your goal is an easy marathon, I think you may benefit from US Airways article that listed some easy marathon across US. Writer Larry Olmsted had a few simple criteria for choosing his first marathon: good weather, a flat course, a fun atmosphere and a high volume of registrants to lower his chances of coming in last!!!!!! Easy beginners marathon These were some of the marathon listed. 1. Honolulu Marathon – It was the writers no one pick because of a flat course 2. Chicago Marathon -Flat course but beware, the marathon has a history of horrible weather on Dday. 3. Marine Corps Marathon 4. Twin Cities marathon – Down side of this marathon is Leave your iphone home, ear phones are banned from twin cities. 5. Las Vegas marathon – It is the only marathon in the world where you can run and get married. For those married they can renew their wedding vows. |
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