Dead Sea Ultramarathon, Jordan
Fri 5 April 2013
Published July 2013
Cover: Runners at the start of the Three Hearts Marathon, Slovenia. (Photo: Dani Mouke)
Dead Sea Ultramarathon, Jordan
Fri 5 April 2013
Maraton de Santiago, Chile
Sun 7 April 2013
33rd Three Hearts Marathon, Slovenia
Sat 18 May 2013
It has been two months since that horrific day in April when the marathon, our city and our sport was changed forever. I can still see the images and hear the sounds of that fateful day, which began as “Marathon Monday” always does, full of excitement, tension and celebration.
Lenguyana Tairo-Urasa, organiser of three AIMS Children’s Series races in Tanzania, looks back over the past three years
From humble beginnings 30 years ago, the Reykjavík Marathon has grown to become a major harvest festival for runners in Iceland and a hotspot for athletes from abroad. It started out as a bit of a tourism stunt. “At the travel agency Úrval, where I was working at the time, we were looking for ways to attract foreign tourists to the country,” reveals Knútur Óskarsson, one of the founders of the Reykjavík Marathon. “Originally I tried to establish a Nordic ski marathon called Lava Loppet in 1981–82 but those plans went up in the air.”
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