Tuesday February 25th, 2025
Tindouf, Algeria
Distance: Marathon
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The Sahara Marathon is an international sport event to demonstrate solidarity with the Saharawi people. Its first edition is in 2001, from an idea of Jeb Carney.
It’s organized by the Secretary of State for Sport, Government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic with the help of volunteers from all over the world.
The Sahara Marathon, which along with the standard-distance marathon also includes the shorter distances of 21km, 10km, 5km and the children’s race, is aimed at promoting sport activity among Saharawi young men and women and financing and developing humanitarian programs.
But also wants, through sport, raise awareness and sensitize the world about a 42-year-long conflict.
42 years of suffering for a population affected by a conflict that is burying their hopes, generation after generation, in the refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria), far from their home.
42 years during which the international community has not been able to unlock the situation.
A race to prevent the Saharawi people from being forgotten.
The first edition of the Sahara Marathon was born as a simple marathon, to give visibility to the Saharawi cause and express solidarity with this people.
It was attended by less than a hundred people, amateur runners, who reached the camps in small groups organized by associations of solidarity that already knew the reality of the Saharawi.
Participants were housed in families, as it is now, but each group or individual differently covered the expenses for their staying: some paid directly, some through their own saharawi delegate, some through the saharawi protocol.
Among the participants there were almost no Saharawis.
There was no funding of any common project, sporting or not.
During the week no other activities in addition to running were planned.
Registration for the race was around € 80.
The organizers, foreigners and Saharawis, were volunteers.
It was amazing. A seed of something that could be great, but soon we realized two problems.
The first was that it wasn’t an economically sustainable model: participants didn’t fully cover the costs of their stay in the camps, which were not only the compensation of the hosting families. The same compensation, different for different groups, created inequalities.
The hospitality of the Sahrawi is huge, as well as the importance of having visitors and the realization of this sporting event, but it was unacceptable for us to go to a refugee camp taking more than what we were leaving.
The second problem was that we weren’t laying anything for the future when we were leaving. There wasn’t a vision, an idea to build something together, tied to sports, to be developed in the following years.
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:44:39 | SIDAHMED AHMED | ||
| 2nd Male | 3:11:32 | GARRIDO PERERA | ||
| 3rd Male | 3:42:37 | VERON DIDIER | ||
| 4th Male | 3:59:04 | MAROUCHE MED HOUCEM | ||
| Female | 4:05:25 | NIKOLOVA KRISTINA | ||
| 2nd Female | 6:18:09 | NUNEZ SANCHEZ | ||
| 3rd Female | 6:26:40 | ROTAECHE ZUBILLAGA | ||
| 4th Female | 6:55:00 | CAMELINA SANDRA |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
Close to Tindouf, within the Algerian territory, at a very short distance from Western Sahara and Mauritania, there is a border zone which has been home to 200,000 sharawi refugees for more than 35 years.
Each refugee camp is a “wilaya”, that is a little town, which bears the name of the corresponding abandoned Western Sahara city.
In Dakhla the sand creates majestic dunes, but most part of the surrounding area is “hammada”, that is a place whose climate is always extremely cold or extremely hot.
If you take a walk around the refugee camp, you will never feel alone, meeting people, children wanting to know your nationality or asking for candies, people stopping to talk to you and others who will just say hello without even stopping; most people will offer you some tea, the mark of hospitality for saharawi people. It would be polite to take at least three cups. The first one tastes bitter as life, the second is sweet as love while the third is soft as death. You came from a distant place for a very important reason, to promote more awareness of the health and food needs of Western Sahara children.
This event is much more than a simple race.
The route symbolically connects the three refugee camps of Smara, Auserd and El Ayoun, and leads runners through a desert which has been the home of refugees for 35 years. Thanks to your effort and your concern for this issue, you have reawakened their hope, giving them the feeling of not being alone. But what is more important is that, as you decided to go there, they can now count on new friends all their lives.
Saturday February 22nd, 2025
Nashville, Tennessee
Distance: 15K · 5K
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Enjoy a beautiful run through the city’s most scenic spots. Then, celebrate your victory with fellow chocolatiers at our post-race party. Stuff your face with decadent fondue, and pose for photos with Marsha and Mello—the energy is infectious!
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 50:30 | Scott Worley | ||
| 2nd Male | 51:33 | Trey Fisher | ||
| 3rd Male | 51:46 | Preston Webb | ||
| 4th Male | 52:33 | Owen Laubscher | ||
| Female | 56:59 | Jill Dennes | ||
| 2nd Female | 1:04:16 | Madison Smith | ||
| 3rd Female | 1:04:42 | Anna Craig | ||
| 4th Female | 1:05:57 | Sammie Fisher |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| M 40-49 | 59:07 | Adam Smith | ||
| M 50-59 | 1:01:31 | Matt Davis | ||
| M 60-69 | 1:13:59 | Nick Nicholson | ||
| F 40-49 | 1:06:19 | Franziska Martin | ||
| F 50-59 | 1:15:54 | Jill Stansell | ||
| F 60-69 | 1:18:33 | Donna Smyers | ||
| F 70+ | 1:51:34 | Joanne Ball |
The Allstate Hot Chocolate 15k/5k Nashville course highlights the city’s biggest attractions. We hold our races to the highest quality standards, from start to finish, course design and accuracy, emergency medical plans that exceed industry standards all in the name of your safety. Along those lines, all Allstate Hot Chocolate 15k/5k
RAM Racing events have a USATF-certified course with a distance that has been certified for accuracy. Please note that although we’ll try our best to avoid it, the course and start time is subject to change.
Saturday February 24th, 2024
Utilita Arena, Birmingham
Distance: 1500m
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The Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham is one of the leading indoor meetings in the world with world-class athletics as part of the World Indoor Tour Gold series.
The event will be staged at its traditional home at Utilita Arena Birmingham setting the tone for what is set to be an incredible year of track & field.
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 3:58:19 | Samuel TEFERA | ETH | |
| 2nd Male | 3:58:39 | Marcin LEWANDOWSKI | POL | |
| 3rd Male | 3:58:43 | Abdelaati IGUIDER | MAR | |
| 4th Male | 3:58:64 | Aman WOTE | ETH | |
| Female | 4:05:27 | Genzebe DIBABA | ETH | |
| 2nd Female | 4:06:23 | Laura MUIR | GBR | |
| 3rd Female | 4:07:26 | Sifan HASSAN | NED | |
| 4th Female | 4:11:93 | Shelby HOULIHAN | USA |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
The Emirates Arena is a world-class multi-purpose sports facility based in the East End of Glasgow. The 5,000 capacity sports arena is the venue for the 2020 Müller Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow and the SPAR British Athletics Indoor Championships.
The Leaderboard Times for the women is for the mile.
Sunday February 8th, 2026
Melbourne, Florida
Distance: Marathon · Half Marathon · Marathon Relay · 8K · 5K · Kids Race
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Located on Florida's Space Coast, just north of Miami, far south of Jacksonville and east of Orlando and Tampa, the State Farm Melbourne Beaches Music Marathon Weekend makes for a perfect warm winter running destination for runners of all ages and levels. The Melbourne Music Marathon typically attracts a slightly more serious runner than the previous month's Disney Marathon, but the course is still designed for fun. The weather is fine and the course is flat as a pancake, making for some spectacular PR's.
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| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:53:05 | Adam Truesdale | FL | |
| 2nd Male | 2:54:30 | Erik Stauderman | VA | |
| 3rd Male | 2:58:17 | Alexander Larrivee | IL | |
| 4th Male | 2:58:19 | James Nolan | PA | |
| Female | 3:05:26 | Violetta Yazlovskaya | FL | |
| 2nd Female | 3:12:59 | Rachel Hyzny | PA | |
| 3rd Female | 3:27:51 | Kayla Dexter | FL | |
| 4th Female | 3:37:36 | Vanessa Pimentel | FL |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
One of America's Top 10 Bucket List Waterfront Races," says Runners World Magazine.
The Publix Florida Marathon & 1/2 Marathonbegins in downtown Melbourne and traverses along scenic US1 and the Indian River offering great water views and two bridge crossings for half-marathoners with four for the full marathon runners. The event has water stops each mile of the course and will feature at least 20 musical acts along the route with a post-race concert providing beer, pizza and more to runners. The 1/2 Marathon Relay offers two runners the chance to work together on a 6.55 mile tag-team run with each receiving a finishers medal.
The races kick off on Saturday with the Florida Today 5k & 8k and Kids Run, withat least six musical acts on the race course and post race party with live music.
Going into its 10th year, the Publix Florida Marathon Weekend is East Central Florida’s premiere distance event and one of the most environmentally sustainable races in the southeast.
Thursday February 3rd, 2028
Orlando, Florida
Distance: Marathon
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Most countries around the world use a selection committee to choose their Olympic Team Members, but not the USA. Prior to 1968, a series of races were used to select the USA Olympic Marathon team, but beginning in 1968 the format was changed to a single race on a single day with the top three finishers selected to be part of the Olympic Team and the fourth and fifth finishers designated as alternates.
As a once-every-four-years opportunity to be selected to the Olympic Marathon team, the USA Olympic Team Trials is arguably the most important marathon that many will run. For some, just getting to the Trials is a goal in itself and marks them as among the best in the USA.
For others, the Trials is the first step in making the Olympic Team. Whatever the motivation for running the Trials, one thing is for sure: the men and women who will represent the USA at the 2020 Olympic Marathon in Tokyo will come from the lists on these pages.
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:09:05 | Conner Mantz | ||
| 2nd Male | 2:09:06 | Clayton Young | ||
| 3rd Male | 2:09:57 | Leonard Korir | ||
| 4th Male | 2:10:02 | Elkanah Kibet | ||
| Female | 2:22:10 | Fiona OKeeffe | ||
| 2nd Female | 2:22:42 | Emily Sisson | ||
| 3rd Female | 2:25:31 | Dakotah Lindwurm | ||
| 4th Female | 2:25:46 | Jessica McClain |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
THE RACE - Galen Rupp won the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials for a second straight time, returning from a coaching change and major injury to repeat as champion.The trials were held Feb 29 in Atlanta Georgia.
Rupp, a two-time Olympic medalist, clocked an unofficial 2:09:20 to win by about 42 seconds and qualify for his fourth Olympics. He is joined on the Olympic team by second- and third-place finishersJacob RileyandAbdi Abdirahman.
Rupp was the 2016 Olympic Marathon Bronze Medalist. The 33-year-old Galen is from Portland Oregon. At the 2012 Olympics Galen was the 10,000m Silver Medalist.
Today was a bit challening. The wind was very strong but the temp was perfect being 50 degrees at the start.
After 20 miles Galen was in total control. The big question of the day was who was going to place second and third. At 25 miles Abdirahman, Maiyo, Korir and Riley were within two seconds of each other with Jacob Riley leading them. 31-year-old Riley best time before today was 2:10:36.
Jacob Riley finished second clocking 2:10:02 a new personal best for him. Abdirahman, 43, will breakBernard Lagat‘s record as the oldest U.S. Olympic runner in history. He will become the second American runner to compete in five Olympics, joiningGail Devers, according to Olympic historianBill Mallon.
Jared Ward, who was sixth in the Rio Olympic marathon, began fading from a chase pack soon after Rupp surged to the lead in the 16th mile.
Rupp finished a marathon for the first time since October 2018. In between, he underwent Achilles surgery and dropped out of the 2019 Chicago Marathon with a calf injury. He also lost career-long coachAlberto Salazarto a doping suspension last fall.
Rupp was not implicated by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and has a clean drug-testing record.
“I feel relief, almost, more than anything,” Rupp toldLewis Johnsonon NBC. “It’s been a really long year and a half.”
One of the best and most scenic courses in Florida taking runners along the Intracoastal Waterway and over two high Spanish bridge crossings. More than 20 bands on the course, embroidered hats, great tech shirts and big spinner medals to finishers--plus beer and food at the finish line.