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unusual facts about road running


Road running

These events include current events such as the Self-Transcendence 6- & 10-day and 3100 mile races in New York, Trans-America, Trans-Gaul, Trans-Korea, Trans-Europe race and the cross Germany race - the Deutschlandlauf.


Anália Rosa

Anália de Oliveira Rosa (born 28 February 1976 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese long-distance runner who competes in cross country, track and road running events, including the marathon.

Andrea Mayr

Mayr set a course record and beat more-established road runners, including Mestawet Tufa, at the 2008 Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race in Nigeria.

Belgrave Harriers

Belgrave Harriers compete in track and field (in the National 1 Division of the British Athletics League), road running, racewalking and cross country, and have traditionally drawn their members from South London and Surrey, but in recent decades have attracted athletes from counties all over England, the Home Nations and overseas.

Blake Russell

After the 2008 Olympics she had a son and made a successful return to the track placing 4th in the 10,000 meters at the USA Track and Field Championships and winning road running the San Jose Half Marathon, crossing the line in 1:11:55 – over a minute ahead of her closest competitor Linda Somers.

Eppie's Great Race

Also known as "The Great Race", "The World's Oldest Triathlon" and the "No-Swim Triathlon", it features a 5.82-mile run, 12.5-mile bike and 6.35-mile paddle held along the scenic American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento, California.

Great Ireland Run

The Great Ireland Run is an annual 10-kilometre road running competition which is held in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland in mid-April.

Great Yorkshire Run

The Great Yorkshire Run is an annual 10K run road race held in September in Sheffield City Centre, England.

Ice Breaker Road Race

The Ice Breaker Road Race, held annually in Great Falls, Montana in April of each year, is a road race that draws over 3,000 walkers, joggers and marathoners.

Jægersborg Dyrehave

Dyrehaven is also the venue for the Hermitage road race (Eremitageløbet) and the yearly Hubertus hunt (Hubertusjagten) which is held on the first Sunday in November.

Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba

Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba (born February 2, 1984 in Kaptul, Marakwet District) is a Kenyan long-distance track, and road running athlete.

Semana Nautica 15K

The Semana Nautica 15K is held annually on July 4 in Santa Barbara, California and is one of the oldest road races in the country.

Teyba Erkesso

Teyba Erkesso Wako (born 30 October 1982 in Arsi) is an Ethiopian runner who specializes in road running (including the half marathon and marathon) as well as cross-country running.

Titus Mbishei

Titus Kipjumba Mbishei (born 28 October 1990 in Mount Elgon District) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in track, cross country and road running.

Treviso Marathon

The Treviso Marathon (Italian: Maratona di Treviso) is an annual road running event which is held in March in the area around the Province of Treviso in Italy.

Wilson Chebet

Wilson Kwambai Chebet (born 12 July 1985 in Marakwet District) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who specialises in road running competitions.

Wilson Kiprop

He started competing at the top level in 2008, winning competitions in Italy (cross and road races) and working under two Italian coaches, Renato Canova and Gabriele Nicola.


see also

Access road to Zhukovsky

The Access road to Zhukovsky from M5 highway (also known as the Access road from M5 highway to LII) is a road running across a distance of 9 km from settlement Imeni Telmana to the Zhukovsky.

Altwiller

The commune is accessed by the D23 road running east from Vibersviller to the village then continuing east to Harskirchen.

Anthem, Arizona

A frontage road running along the east side of Interstate 17 and connecting Carefree Highway in North Gateway to Gavilan Peak Parkway in Anthem opened in October 2009.

B1108 road

B1108 road is a road running between the city of Norwich, England and the A1065 at Bodney.

Dinsho

The village was moved in 1934 EC (AD 1941/2) adjacent to the main road running between Goba and Shashamane, and by 2000 the town had expanded considerably with the construction of approximately 60 houses around a new market site on the north side of the town.

Dolno Sonje

It is located on the other side of Mount Vodno from Skopje, but a road running around the mountain connects the two communities.

Escort Way

Escort Way is a New South Wales state arterial road running from the western end of the Northern Distributor Road in Orange to Eugowra, where it becomes Eugowra-Forbes Road.

Giro di Castelbuono

Among the past winners are former world record holders Khalid Khannouchi and Paul Tergat, three-time London Marathon winner Martin Lel, and four-time road running World Champion Zersenay Tadese.

Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Hammonds Plains was established as a settlement area for United Empire Loyalists in 1786 along a road running from Birch Cove on Bedford Basin to St. Margaret's Bay.

Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel

The North and South Korean governments had agreed on an inter-Korean rail line to run from Seoul to Pyongyang and then on to Sinuiju, a border city in the north on the Yalu River, as well as a road running parallel to the railway.

Kelly Stand Road

Kelly Stand Road is an unpaved road running between East Arlington and Stratton, Vermont in southern Vermont.

Khan Jahan Ali

He is said to have built a highway from Bagerhat to Chittagong, a twenty-mile long road from Samantasena to Badhkhali, and a road running from Shuvabara to Daulatpur in Khulna.

Lions Road

The Lions Road is a road running between the Summerland Way in New South Wales and a junction at the Mount Lindesay Highway near Rathdowney, Queensland.

Madingley

Madingley Road, an arterial road running from Madingley to central Cambridge

Mohammed Abduh Bakhet

His personal best times are 29:18.76 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing; 1:01:38 hours in the half marathon, achieved at the 2007 World Road Running Championships in Udine; and 2:13:19 hours in the marathon, achieved in September 2009 in the Toronto Marathon.

Porajów

It lies on a railway line and road running from Zittau in Germany to Hrádek nad Nisou village in Liberec district in the Czech Republic; however the trains do not stop on Polish territory.

Sheffield to Hathersage Turnpike

It is widely believed that this track follows the line of a Roman road running from Templeborough to the fort at Navio (Brough-on-Noe), but archaeologists have cast doubt on this.

St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton

Elm Grove, a steep road running from central Brighton eastwards to Brighton Racecourse on Race Hill, was laid out in the 1850s.

Stane Street

Stanegate, a Roman road running from Corbridge to Carlisle to the south of Hadrian's Wall

Steffeln

The castle, mentioned in 1282, on the tuff crags overlooking the village was converted in the 15th or 16th century into a compulsory-labour and toll estate for the Manderscheid toll station on the long-distance trade road running from Liège by way of Malmedy to Koblenz, and into a seat for the comital Schultheißen.

Wiesweiler

The road running through the valley, Aschbacher Weg, links with the Roman road running over the Königsberg and into the Landstuhler Niederung (a depression) and may once further have been a link by way of Wiesweiler to the Roman road between Tholey and Bad Kreuznach.

Workshop for All Beings

since 1998 – taking part in protecting the Rospuda Valley and standing against building a ring road running through it