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The Asheville Citizen-Times Half-Marathon will be held Sept. 15, and registration is now open.

The half marathon, 5K and WNC PARENT one-mile Fun Run, now in its 8th year, attracts thousands of runners of all ages. The race is presented in partnership with ABCCM (Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry. Proceeds from the event benefit the Lend-A-Hand Foundation and the Medical Ministry, a partnership between ABCCM and Mission Hospitals.

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As many as are 40,000 athletes likely to participate in the 18th Thane Mayor Marathon to be held here on July 22, Mayor Smita Indulkar said here.

The prize money for the marathon will be around Rs 4.75 lakhs and estimated expense for the Marathon itself is likely to be around Rs 15 lakhs, she said.

Senior Shiv Sena leaders including the executive president Uddhav Thackery will grace the event.

The events will be limited to participants from the state.

A number of events for all age groups including senior citizens will also be held and the starting point will be the junction of Thane Municipal Corporation.

The cash prize for the main Marathon will be Rs 51,000, Rs 3,000, Rs 20,000 and Rs 15,000 for the first, second, third and fourth place respectively.

Via News From Sahara Samay

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Any decision on a proposed marathon by the city of Big Bear Lake has been delayed until at least June 20.

City staff asked the Big Bear Lake Planning Commission to continue the public hearing to June 20 to allow time for residents in the Eagle Point area to be notified of the pending street closures in their neighborhood. The original course of the September 2008 marathon has needed modification. The Forest Service has denied closing Van Dusen Canyon Road for the marathon, even on an intermittent basis, which caused marathon organizers to reroute the course. Additional mileage will need to be added in another area.

Additionally, after meeting with California Highway Patrol and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials, race organizers have removed a portion of Big Bear Boulevard from the course and made some alterations on the North Shore Drive portion

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Wallace Herman fully expects to be the oldest runner in Sunday’s Eastern Marathon and that suits him just fine.

At 81, he doesn’t come across too many runners in his age bracket anymore, but that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to enter marathons across Canada.

“I was the first person to do all the provinces and territories. I just like to get around and do new marathons,” Herman said from his home in Ottawa this week.

Herman will run his 692nd marathon Sunday when he enters the Eastern Marathon in Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s. He’s coming a long way for the event, but that’s nothing new to Herman, who’s run in all 50 American states and in 99 different countries. He’s run marathons in every continent on the planet and competed in three Newfoundland marathons between 1979 and 1995.

“I haven’t been to Newfoundland in 12 years, so it was time to get back,” Herman said.

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You have to be crazy about running to be a member of this club.

That’s what the Northeast Kingdom Krazies - the Kingdom Krazies for short - are all about. A Sunday morning, or Tuesday or Thursday afternoon, hasn’t gone by in the past several years without a group of Krazies running the back roads of Lyndonville and beyond. That is especially the case during marathon season, with several members in training for the 26-mile races in Boston and Burlington.

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