AKRON, Ohio – The Road Runner Akron Marathon, the first race in the country to offer free running shoes to marathon finishers, recently announced a new deal with Brooks® enabling it to offer free shoes to runners of the full marathon for the second consecutive year.
Through the new partnership, Brooks will become the Official Running Shoe and Apparel sponsor of the Road Runner Akron Marathon, now in its fifth year. Brooks, the number two running shoe manufacturer in the United States, will work with marathon officials to offer full …

Running just got cheaper! RunnerShoeBox.com debuted today offering what is the first shopping comparison site for runners. If you are looking for the best online price for your running shoes, this site gives you exactly what you are looking for.
For example: If your shoe is Saucony Grid Stabil MC 5, you no longer have to go RoadRunners, Zappos and Shoebuy.com to find who is offering the shoe and at what price. This site is built only for running shoes and just makes it really easy.

By Richard Irwin, Special to the Press-Telegram
TOBY ESTLER DOESN’T run for HIS life, but you could say the Long Beach author runs for life.
The British expatriate enjoys jogging along our sandy shores so much that he’s put his thoughts down in a new book, “Running Home: 35 Moving Meditations for Runners.”
And in a way, Estler is a little bit of all those. The 41-year-old offers an inspiring personal story of how he overcame his addiction to nicotine and alcohol to start a new life on the West Coast.
“I was …

For only being 18 years old, Jesse Zweig is a role model for thousands.
By BROOKS TEEVAN
Jan. 21, 2007 — Jesse Zweig hoped to run 200 miles, or the equivalent of 7.5 26-mile marathons, over two days to raise money for Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). An iPod, gummy bears, and sheer determination would keep him going.
Family and friends cheered on Jesse, 18, during his run that began Thursday morning at his high school. Jesse’s older brother is his biggest booster.
“If you’ve got five miles left and you’re dead,” he …

A total of 1,094 runners took advantage on the first day of a discounted entry fee period for the Honolulu Marathon Saturday at Niketown in Waikiki, according to marathon spokesman Pat Bigold.
The fee during the next eight days is $20 instead of the regular fee of $125 for the Dec. 9 race.
A record 4,001 people took advantage of last year’s early registration.
The early registration continues at the store from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Jan. 28.
A total of 28,635 entered last year’s Honolulu Marathon.
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NEW DELHI, India — An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women’s 800 meters at the Asian Games failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal.
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Below is registration info for the biggest non car related traffic jam in LA! Join up and be on the many runners that make this race one of the biggest and best.
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…marathonguide.com says there were 382,000 marathon finishers in 2005, and that’s up nearly 100,000 from 2000.
What’s fueling this? We can answer in a single word — women.
Last year roughly 153,000 women finished marathons, according to marathonguide.com. That’s an increase of over a third from the previous year. As this story in Newsday says, women realized that, with a little effort, running a marathon was an attainable goal.
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The Honolulu Marathon is the country’s third largest marathon and the state’s largest sporting event. It generated more than $100 million in visitor spending last December, bringing more than 65,000 visitors to O’ahu. Those stats alone are rather impressive; however the icing on the cake for those marathoners who are LOST fans is the appearance of Yunjin Kim who plays the role of Sun.
Yunjin Kim, star of the hit ABC TV series “Lost,” joins Mayor Mufi Hannemann at a 10 a.m. news conference today at Honolulu Hale regarding the …

I know it has been a long time since I updated the site with anything great, but this is one of the best stories. Running the Sahara is happening NOW!
Right now, three human beings are attempting the impossible – running 4,000 miles across the Sahara Desert to raise awareness for the 1.2 billion people around the world who don’t have access to clean water. They will run 50 miles a day – for around 80 days – an amazing feat of human will and endurance.
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