The Mystic Places Marathon has a new name

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The Mystic Places Marathon has a new name now: The Mystic Country Marathon & Niantic Bay Festival. The course appears to be the same, so I imagine that not much else has changed about the race with the new name. I am sure that it is still a great (and quick)...

Win a trip to run in Kenya on safari

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Adidas, National Geographic, GAP Adventures, and Kenya Airways are sponsoring a contest to fly a lucky winner to Kenya for the Safaricom Marathon. It is a simple sweepstakes where you give them contact info and they let you know if you have won. You can enter the...

Dean Karnazes is on his way

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Dean Karnazes vowed to run 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days, following in the footsteps of Sam Thompson, although I’m not sure he knew Sam would be doing it before him when he was initially planning this ordeal. He has begun his trek across the country and...

Why 50 Marathons in 50 days is impressive

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I have written previously about how Dean Karnazes and Sam Thompson were running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. By the way, Sam finished his marathons on the 22nd of August. Today, I am going to use those 50 marathon events as examples of why doing something...