December 2017

The 2018 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon (January 26, 2018): the RunBlogRun Interview with Peter Connerton, Race Director of t
RunBlogRun opines: The 2018 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon will be held on January 26, 2018. The fields are always amazing, and the race continues to grow and thrive. Here are six questions that we asked Dubai's management team, Peter Connerton, Dubai Marathon's and their Media Director, Alan Ewens.

Coburn, Simpson and Berian return to Boston
Organisers of the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix have announced that world steeplechase champion Emma Coburn and world 1500m silver medallist Jenny Simpson are both set to return to the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Boston on 10 February.

Korir, Heath lead Team USATF at 2018 Great Edinburgh XCountry Challenge
(USATF) - INDIANAPOLIS -- Team USATF will have a talent-laden roster January 13, 2018 as it returns to Scotland to take on the world at the 2018 Great Edinburgh XCountry Challenge at Holyrood Park. At last year's event, the U.S.

Bekele finishes his 2017 racing with a victory at the TSK25K
Bekele had talked at Friday’s press conference about beating his best for the distance of 1:12:47 – an intermediate time in the 2016 Berlin Marathon which he went on to win in 2:03:03 to go second on the all-time list for the classic distance – but it quickly became apparent that was going to be a tall order after a very conservative pace over the first half of the r

Farah to contest Doha Half Marathon
World and Olympic champion Mo Farah will take part in the Ooredoo Doha Half Marathon on 12 January.
It will be the 34-year-old’s first race of 2018 as he prepares for the London Marathon in April where he will take on Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge.

Flanagan and Rupp lead domestic fields at Boston Marathon
Shalane Flanagan and Galen Rupp will lead a strong domestic line-up at the 2018 Boston Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on 16 April.
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