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Check out the Local Running Club scene in Houston on the HMC site or Houston Area Road Runners Association site. You can meet fellow runners and a new social group or two. You’ll receive coaching and motivation from fellow runners. You can give motivation and inspiration to other runners. Running will become part of your weekly routine. Making…
National Running Day is not just about the sport of running, but the lifestyle. On June 6, runners all across the country united to celebrate the sport by proclaiming all of the reasons why “I RUN…”! Whether you run to fundraise for a charity, to improve your health, to achieve faster times, to eat more sweets,…
The Houston Marathon Committee is “going green,” and making history in the process. For the first time in the U.S., we have pursued a green certification for two separate sporting events in a single weekend – U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and Chevron Houston Marathon. During race weekend, we collected 21.55 tons of waste and diverted an impressive 79% of collected…
The Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon are the nation’s premier winter races, attracting runners from all 50 U.S. states and more than 20 foreign countries. Most recently, the Chevron Houston Marathon was featured as one of the top 10 marathons to nail your goal by Runner’s World’s Magazine. While there are a number of great reasons to take…
The 40th anniversary Chevron Houston Marathon was an exciting, action-packed weekend – one that will go down in the record books making history in more ways than one. Below is our wrap-up of the milestone weekend, and the first of our new “13 fast facts” series – a monthly feature posted on the 13th of each month as we count…
It was an Ethiopian sweep of the medal stands – and the record books – at the Chevron Houston Marathon and the Aramco Houston Half Marathon on Sunday, as all four winners erased the course records. “Today was the perfect way to culminate the most significant road racing weekend ever in Houston,” stated Wade Morehead,…
Two of the fastest races in Olympic Marathon Trials history took place on the same day Saturday in Houston as the six men and women who will represent Team USA in London earned their way on the squad. Shalane Flanagan set an Olympic Trials record of 2:25:38 in only her second marathon, while Meb Keflezighi earned…
More than 28,000 runners will take the streets of Houston on Sunday as the Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and El Paso Corporation 5K top off perhaps the biggest weekend of road racing ever seen in this country. “The entire racing industry has descended on Houston this weekend,” said Wade Morehead, executive director…
It’s almost the big day, and every runner in the Olympic Marathon Trials has their own perfect race-day scenario. Take a look at what four top contenders – Ryan Hall, Desiree Davila, Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan – have to say about theirs. http://olympictrials.runnersworld.com/2012/01/12/ryan-hall-pre-race-qa/ …
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