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Organisers of the Edinburgh Marathon are pressing ahead with next year’s race despite concerns over its funding.

The troubled event will follow a proposed new course in 2007 that starts in Princes Street, but takes in large swathes of East Lothian including Gosford House with a finish line at Musselburgh Race Course.

And it has already received a welcome boost just weeks after entries opened with more than 1000 runners signing up for next year’s marathon - 75 per cent up on the same time last year.

But the race, which has been running at a loss for two years, currently has no sponsor and £100,000 of public funding was withdrawn earlier this month when it emerged there would be no elite runners or TV coverage at next year’s event.

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The Loch Ness Marathon takes place this Sunday, 1 October. This is BBC Scotland news website editor Mark Coyle’s penultimate training diary.

It’s hard to believe but the big day is nearly upon me and about 2,000 other runners.

The start of last year’s Loch Ness Marathon

My Loch Ness Marathon training schedule began on Monday June 19 and that first three-mile run feels like it was a lifetime ago.

Since then there have been ups and downs, tears and pain, encouragement and humility. In other words, everything that other runners who’ve put themselves through the same experience said would happen to me.

The rest of this story is at BBC NEWS

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The Wellness Center will host its Fifth Annual 5K (3.1 mile) Run/Walk at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13. Check-in starts at 4 p.m. under the arches on Summit Avenue.

Registration forms are available on the Wellness Center Web site or in the center located on the lower level of Koch Commons. Register by Thursday, Oct 5, to receive a free T-shirt!

The Wellness 5K is free for students. The cost for faculty and staff who register before Oct. 5 is $5, and $7 the day of the race. The fee is $10 for alumni.

Prizes will be awarded to the top male and female student and nonstudent finishers. This year, the UST Fall Festival, which includes a pep rally with food, music and fun, will be at the finish line.

Via University of St. Thomas

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The condition of Mrityunjay Mandal, the seven-year-old marathon runner who collapsed yesterday at Peddar Road after running 68 km and was hospitalised, is stable.

Mandal collapsed because of hypoglycaemia (deficiency of glucose) and dehydration. He was admitted to GT Hospital in south Mumbai.

Hospital superintendent H.S. Jadhav said the boy’s condition was stable. “He is doing fine, but will be under observation for at least 48 hours before being discharged,” said paediatrician Nita Sutay.

“Although he was admitted to the paediatric ward yesterday, I shifted him to the intensive care unit for better observation and monitoring,” Sutay said.

“We are checking all his parameters and they seemed to be within normal limits. He is fine now but we would like to observe him for at least another two days,” she added. “It would be difficult to say what would have happened had Mandal continued running or had not been given timely medical intervention.”

From The Telegraph - Calcutta

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TWENTY MILES.

That’s 35,200 yards. Or 105,600 feet. Or 1,267,200 inches.

No matter how I count ‘em, they all equaled the distance I covered on foot Saturday.

More than three months into training for the Oct. 15 Long Beach Marathon, I finally reached the big 2-0.

All week, I wondered what it would like to run the near equivalent of a car ride to Knott’s Berry Farm. Would it be the hellish feet-on-fire attempts at Miles 14 and 17, where I “hit the wall,” or the Zen-like journey of Mile 19?

The rest of the story is at the Press-Telegram

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