marathon distance running - app de maraton y running internacional

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Focus on international marathon half marathon ultramarathon ultra running races

This is an app that collects the most relevant international marathon and running races series e.g. Marathon, Ultramarathon, half marathon, ultra, 100K events sometimes called ultra marathon and the most relevant 10K international races between others. Run a Marathon sometimes is the key for other sports like Ironman triathlons or ultramarathon races.

This is a marathon finder events for marathonians around the world when it comes to finding marathon races.

We list the marathon races for a particular location on a map so you can visually see where they are located

Whether you are participant or spectator you will find all important information about the largest international marathons events in the world.

Key functions:
- International Events: Marathon, Ultramarathon, half marathon and 10K event information in a basic list

- Location: We list the marathon races for a particular location on a map so you can visually see where they are located.

- Filter by month: you can filter the races Marathon, half marathon and ultramarathon races by Month.

- Feedback section: We collect all the confirmed and most relevant international events. If you are especially interested in one special country please send us an email and we are going to search marathon events especially for you in this country. We are really pleased to receive any feedback about how to improve the app for you.

Something about marathon:

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards), usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens.

The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896, though the distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 500 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants

The name Marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon (in which he had just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming νενικήκαμεν (nenikekamen, "we have wοn"), before collapsing and dying.The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarchs On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticuss lost work, giving the runners name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles. Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) also gives the story, but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides).

The current world record time for men over the distance is 2 hours 2 minutes and 57 seconds, set in the Berlin Marathon by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya on 28 September 2014, an improvement of 26 seconds over the previous record also set in the Berlin Marathon by Wilson Kipsang, also of Kenya on 29 September 2013.The world record for women was set by Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain in the London Marathon on 13 April 2003, in 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds