It was a great weekend of marathon running, I found pictures from some of marathon races that happened over the weekend.
2010 Hyannis Marathon Race photos & Pictures
The local paper had a great photo taken at the start of the race : a picture of Dad with his wheel chair bound son just ahead of the leading pack. See photo at cod times site
2010 Gasparilla Half & Full Marathon photos & Pictures
The notable thing about thsi race was the 41 year old winner, Terri Rejimbai won the womens half in a time of 1 hr 22 mins. See pictures at st petersburg website
2010 Cowtown marathon photos & pictures
The largest running field over the weekend, 21000 runners turned up. I wondered why the winner had a slow finish time in the low 2:30s. This picture tells it all
See more pictures at flickr
2010 Standard Chartered Hong Kong marathon photos & pictures
See photo of the winner at peoples website
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“Run Austin Love Austin”that is one of the best marathon slogans have heard
According to race officials, 4,500 marathoners and a record number of 9,000 half-marathoners participated in 2010 Austin Marathon.
The race having fell on valentine day there was alot of roses at the finish line.
I found 2010 Austin Race photos at Flickr. The photos were awesome, the type you would love to keep in sports photos library or sports photos books.
 Check out more photos at flickr andrew photo stream
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It’s definitely a special experience. It’s about seeing and testing your limits. Winner 2010 Surf city USA marathon.
20,000 runners took part in 2010 Surf City marathon along the seaside streets of Huntington Beach. The Orange County Register posted some awesome photos from the race.
 Checkout more surf city marathon photos at register gallery
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The 2010 Stanchart Dubai marathon was beamed live on Satellite TV and I woke early morning to watch Haile Gebrselassie make another history by breaking his own marathon record.
It wasn’t to be
His highness Haile Gebrselassie came first at 2010 Stanchart Dubai Marathon. His winning time was 2hr 6min 9sec, just over two minutes outside his best. At 36 I think that is impressive time.
The Mystery of a Stiff Back!!
Believe it or not according to news coming from Dubai: Haile Gebrselassie woke up with a stiff back and had to be given intensive physiotherapy hours before the race. He fell asleep while watching television and woke up with a stiff back!!!!
The man was lucky he even managed to sleep on the night before the race, personally I never sleep before a marathon race.
Gebrselassie took the fatty $250,000 first prize (missing the $i Million bonus for breaking the record) ahead of Kenya’s Chala Dechase Beyene, and his Ethiopian compatriot Eshetu Wendimu Tisge finished third.
Mamitu Daska Molisa made it an Ethiopian cleansweep of titles as she won the women’s race in 2hr 24min 18sec, eight seconds ahead of Aberu Kebede Shewaye.
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The name Disney means Fun and that is what you expect from World Disney marathon.
These pictures from world disney marathon speak for themselves
And the winner was………………
 Adriano Bastos fo Brazil written by Constantine Njeru
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23,000 marathon runners hit the streets of Hawaii for the 2009 Honolulu marathon. I don’t know why this race is so popular with Japanese runners, 15,000 of them ran the race.
A lady, Honolulu photographer, who lives along the Honolulu marathon route took some awesome photos, from the images you would have been forgiven if you thought the images were of Tokyo marathon. The Japanese were all over.
The Honolulu marathon picture below (see the Sign inside) must have been spotted at the 20 mile mark. A point when most runners are dazed & hungry and might not tell the difference between Vaseline & Butter!
For more honolulu marathon photos visit honolulu marathon photographer
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The following funny marathon signs were spotted by Jim, a spectator / volunteer at NYC Marathon.
- Don’t stop–we’re all watching you
- Who needs Toenails…Keep Running!
- You’re Almost there (They love this at mile 3)
- I got a bar of soap for you at the finish line
- Have to pee? Next rest stop 5 miles
Have you seen some funny marathon signs? please feel free to share your funny marathon race signs in the comments section!
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There are certain things that happen during a marathon race that demoralises runners especially the slow runners at the back of the park.
I got the following list from a slow runner a +5 hours marathon finisher who admits he is slow but he loves marathon running.
- Fast runners who decide to do their cool down on the course when you are trying to run in.
- Water stations that run out or are closed.
- Workers who are taking down the barriers early.
- Spectators who are cutting through the course on their way home while you are trying for a PR.
- Organizers who open the roads too early forcing the slow runners to walk on the roadside.
So next time, if you are a fast runner, dont do you cool down on the course be mindful of those slow runners.
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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”
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A marathon race is never complete without the fans. They encourage us to keep running or like my friend Dean says in his blog “They have a job to do. They must help their runner drag his or her sorry carcass across the finish line.”
They say it with their mouth better still with a hand made marathon poster. One of the most memorable poster I ever so was during my first marathon a dude wore a T-shirt with words “No money no honey” I think that was a clever way to motivate runners to go for the Jack pot!
Another funny marathon poster I have seen was a this one from a collection on deans blog!
 To all Male Runners And to all running sisters
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