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Great ideas can strike at the most unexpected moment, and that was certainly the case with The Royal Gazette Bermuda Triangle Challenge. While taking a shower 13 years ago, Thom Gilligan had a spark of an idea that quickly caught the imagination of others and led to the first three-race combined competition in 2008. Read More
Yulara, Australia; July 25 Experience the Northern Territory in a truly unique way: by running across it. This marathon also offers three shorter-distance options, all of which cross bush roads with stellar views of Uluru, the famous Aboriginal sandstone formation, and Kata Tjuta, the area’s landmark red-rock domes. The marathon’s coordinators can arrange for travel packages (from $855) that include up to five nights of lodging and guided outings, or book a trip with Marathon Tours, and it’ll do all the planning for you. Add extra days to explore the cultural highlights of Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park, and book tickets (from $43) to Field of Light Uluru, an outdoor art installation across the desert that spans a distance equal to seven football fields.Read more
Kraig Lofquist accomplished a goal recently that sent him running around the world. He completed the Australian Outback Marathon on July 27, which marked the seventh continent on which he’d run a marathon. When the 55-year-old former Educational Service Unit No. 9 administrator thinks about the accomplishment, it’s not the actual marathons that stand out. “It’s the unbelievable people I meet,” he said. “I’ve had the opportunity to meet some of the most incredible people and make lifelong friends.”Read More
A huge shout out to our MTT Team Member, Christine Suter who was the first woman to cross the Okangan race - an Ultra 520K! Despite having recently overcome a stress fracture in her foot, Suter went out from Aug. 3 through 5 and was the top woman in the eight-competitor field, completing the three-day challenge in a combined 29 hours, 46 minutes and 23 seconds (29:46:23). The runner-up, Nancy Fedeyko, was nearly 90 minutes back. Read More
An Experienced and Trusted Brand - Marathon Tours & Travel was founded back in 1979 and now has four decades of experience to look back on. It's easily the most experienced marathon and runner-based travel agency in all of North America, having established a huge network of trusted contacts with airlines, travel organizers, and hotels all across the globe. A widely trusted company, Marathon Tours & Travel has staff with more than a century of combined travel experience and has received nothing but praise and rave reviews from past travelers. For impeccable marathon travel experiences on all seven continents, Marathon Tours & Travel is the company to choose.Read More
When people hear that Elise Walton has run half-marathons in China, Greenland and South Africa, they want to know which was the hardest. Was it the seemingly endless steps on the Great Wall of China? The polar ice sheets in Greenland? Or the sand, hills, armed rangers and wild animals in South Africa? “I can’t pick,” Walton says. “Each one had completely unique challenges. The only thing they had in common was being spectacular.”Read More
Every runner has a bucket list race, but if you want to complete the Abbott World Marathon Majors, you have six: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City. And you’re not alone in this goal: Eliud Kipchoge just said he wants to run all six races before he retires, and you’ve probably seen lots of non-elites posting pics of their Majors medals, too. The number of Abbott World Marathon Majors finishers increased by 1,400 percent since 2015.Read More
“I had already been running marathons and was attempting to complete the Six World Major Marathons (London, Berlin, Tokyo, Chicago, New York and Boston). I was attempting my first international marathon in London when I met a gentleman on the marathon bus and he was telling me that he had just finished a marathon in Antartica and had completed one on all seven continents,” said McCue. “During the Seven Marathon journey it began to become more about the adventure than the marathons. We’ve met so many amazing people and made some friends for life,” said McCue. “I got to run alongside some truly inspirational athletes from all walks of life and have been fortunate to see some beautiful places on this planet, and we’ve accumulated some pretty good stories along the way.”Read More
She tried soccer one year in her hometown of St. Louis in the late 1970s, but that comment — you run funny — embarrassed her beyond belief. She internalized it and told no one, not even her parents. She never played organized sports again. “I lived with it literally my whole life,” she says. “I carried that story — I’m not an athlete.” Forty years later, she carries a different story. On March 18, now Karen Hohertz-Jacobs, crossed the finish line of a marathon held on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica. That race completed her quest to run a marathon on all seven continents, a journey she started less than a decade ago.Read More
“As I’ve gotten older, I realize how fear has held me back,” Holas says. “Now I know if I can run a marathon, there’s nothing I can’t do. If I’m afraid or don’t want to do it, I do it. That’s how I continue to grow.”Read More
