"24 years of focus, discipline and dedication… and now that dream is realised."On Sunday November 11, Steve Edwards obliterated the world record for running 500 marathons in the fastest average finish time, which now stands at an incredible 3 hours
" cannot not be recognized as legitimate for world record purposes.this article is extracted from edition 1106 of the Analytical Distance Runner, the email newsletter of the Association of Road Racing Statisticians
-zero temperatures and katabatic winds, winning the world’s most southerly marathon, the Antarctic Ice Marathon in a new course record time of 3 hours 41 mins. He then ran 50K in Antarctica on the Union Glacier, before flying to Santiago, Chile, where he completed 50
where Mike attached the wool to my apron and I made myself known to the people from Guinness World Records. We had a group photo taken, then one on my own and I headed back to say goodbye to Mike.I met Gill Begnor who was wearing a bottle costume and had
One Treadmill...48 Hours...12 Crazy Runners...495.76 miles...One new world record!If you finished FLM on Sunday, you probably thought it felt as though you’d been running towards the Mall for days. Well, spare a thought for nine nutty forumites
This weekend Canadian lawyer and Arc’teryx athlete Adam Campbell will be swapping lycra for office attire in an attempt to beat the Guinness World Record for being the fastest man to run a marathon in a business suit.The ultra runner who is raising
Kenyan who had just been invited to join the national squad. He was a great guy who had come from humble beginnings but who had set himself the target of setting a world record for the marathon distance. With a PB of 2:06, set in Kenya, he said it was his
from 200m to the marathon.Richard holds the world record for leg amputees over the marathon (2:42:52 in Chicago) and half-marathon (1:14:59 in Reading). When the IPC ruled that he couldn’t compete in the 2012 Paralympic marathon (which is only open
Gebrselassie the running legend he is today.Over one of the most successful running careers of all time, Gebrselassie amassed 27 world records, two Olympic medals and eight world titles. We've trawled the archives to find some of the career highs and lows faced
