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India’s Ashis Roy completes 104th marathon

June 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, June 6 (IANS) Running his third marathon in 33 days, India’s grand old marathon man Ashis Roy has completed his 104th marathon finishing the Sunburst Marathon in South Bend, Indiana, in pouring rain.

Roy, who turned 78 June 1, finished the 26.2 mile run through South Bend town and along St Joseph River Saturday in 6 hours and 43 minutes – four minutes more than his last run in Bob Potts Heritage Rail Trail Marathon in York, Pennsylvania two weeks ago.

It was pretty hot when the race started at 6 a.m. but he still managed to complete the first half in a comfortable 3 hours and 15 minutes, but around the 19th mile on the return run it started raining heavily slowing him down a bit.

The veteran Indian runner, who completed his 100th marathon in Mumbai Jan 17, has no plans to hang his boots yet. ‘I want to keep running to show to the world that Indians too can do well in sports,’ Roy, the oldest of 840 participants told IANS on phone.

Amazed that he was still running at 78, a few came up to him and said: ‘You are a superman’. ‘It was a grand feeling,’ said Roy.

Another reason that keeps him going is: ‘I want to tell the sports authorities in India that they should not restrict sports to youth only. But it should be open to all.’

Roy, who has penned a book on ‘Joy of Running’ is listed in the Limca Book of Records, and has, to date, competed in 37 marathons in India and 67 marathons in 20 other countries, including the International Veterans Marathon in Athens in 1986.

Roy, a resident of New Delhi, began running marathons at the age of 52 when he retired as a cardiologist with the Indian Air Force.

(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)

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Granny enters record books after completing 27 marathons in 27 days

May 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 3 (ANI): A granny has entered the record books after she completed 27 consecutive fund raising marathons.

The 63-year-old grandma, Rosie Swale Pope MBE, ran for the final step in her toiling 707-mile journey.

Swale was “tired but very happy” when she crossed the finish line in Tudor Square, in her hometown of Tenby, in west Wales.

“Although I am actually 63 doing something like this makes me feel as though I am really 36. It was fantastic. I crossed the finish line in Tudor Square, in Tenby, and it was like a dream,” Swale said.

“I think the main thing is to show people that they should reach out to do what they want to do. Maybe you can”t always get there but you should always reach out,” she added.

The 27-day race schedule took Swale from Bristol to London and from Tunbridge Wells to Bury St Edmunds, reports Sky News.

The money raised from the races will be donated to Ty Hafan children”s hospice in Cardiff and Helen & Douglas House in Oxford.

Once Swale achievement is officially confirmed, she will become the first woman ever to run so many consecutive marathons. (ANI)

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Women run marathons to keep weight down, men sign up for competition

April 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 17 (ANI): Men and women participate in marathons for very different reasons, a study suggests.

While it’s the thrill of competition that attracts many men to taking up marathon running, in case of women, it is for shedding pounds or improving mood.

To reach the conclusion, Elizabeth Loughren, of the University of Birmingham, recruited more than 900 first-time marathon runners, aged between 18 and 72.

After analyses it was found that men were more likely to say they were running “to see how high I can place” or to achieve a certain time, reports The Daily Express.

Meanwhile, women cited reasons such as “to improve my mood”, to lose weight, or “to feel at peace with the world”.

The study also found that 79 per cent of the men planned to do a another marathon within a year, compared with 70 per cent of the women.

The findings were presented at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference. (ANI)

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November 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The Delhi Half Marathon is an annual half marathon foot-race held in New Delhi, India. It was established in 2006. The 2006 marathon drew about 20,000 participants.

2006 featured the marathon, there is a half marathon, a Fun Run and a 5km run. The event supports a number of charities including the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India and CRY (Child Relief and You). From November 2007 onwards, the marathon only features the half marathon (21.097 km), a senior citizen run (4 km), a wheel chair marathon (2.7 km) and the Great Delhi run (7 km).

The 2006 winner of the marathon was Simon Maiyo (Kenya) in a time of 2:17:00, whilst the first female over the line was Enatesh Tadesse (Ethiopia) in a time of 2:44:29. The marathons first prize is $30,000 for men and $20,000 for women.

The 2007 half marathon was held on November 11, 2007. World number six Diudone Disi (Rwanda)completed the 21-kilometer race in 1:00:43, while the fastest female over the line was Deriba Alemu (Ethiopia) who took little over one hour 10 minutes to win the race, ending the Kenyan dominance established during the last two editions of the half marathon.

The 2009 marathon, held on 1st November 2009, was again won by Deriba Merga (Ethiopia) in 59:54 minutes and the first woman to cross the line was Mary Keitany (Kenya).

For More Information Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2009 Website : http://www.adhm.indiatimes.com/

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Madonna not taking part in 2010′s Marathon des Sables

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Madonna has denied reports that claim the pop diva will run in Marathon des Sables next year.

Tabloid reports had earlier suggested that the 51-year-old hitmaker was under a strict training schedule for the six-day rigorous run across the Sahara Desert.

However, Madonna’s aide Liz Rosenberg has rubbished the rumours.ontactmusic music quoted her saying: “It’s not true.”

Dubbed as the toughest race on the planet, the 156 miles long trek is organized every spring and is the equivalent of six marathons. (ANI)

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Dust mites indulge in 24hr sex marathons

July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sydney, July 10 (ANI): Sydney mattresses are home to thousands of dust mites, who indulge in sex marathons lasting as long as 24 hours, says an expert.

Dr. Matt Colloff, a CSIRO Entomology scientist who has spent 25 years studying mites, has described their bizarre sexual behaviour in his 600-page, 150 dollars book, ‘Dust Mites’, which was launched on July 9.

“You can’t see them and you can’t feel them. But almost every house has them. A lot of Sydney mattresses would have over a million,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Colloff as saying.

Thanks to its warm, moist climate, “Sydney is one of the world’s top 10 dust mite capitals,” he added.

These less than half a millimetre long organisms inhabit beds, carpets, upholstered furniture, clothes, and curtains as they thrive on skin scales that have fallen from their human housemates.

“Their sexual behaviour is absolutely bizarre. They mate back-to-back. The male has a penis shaped liked an old-fashioned coffee-pot spout and locks onto the female with a pair of suckers,” said Colloff.

As the dust mite’s penis is so narrow, compared with its sperm, “the sperm has to travel in single file,’ thus making mating slower than other organisms.

“They remain in that position for 24 hours. She continues on with everyday life and the little male hangs on,” said Colloff.

The mites are often found in beds because the heat of human bodies between the sheets triggers sweating, creating the humidity and warmth the mites crave.

They spend their days “eating and copulating and defecating,” said Colloff. (ANI)

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Triathlons ‘twice as fatal as marathons’

May 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 26 (ANI): A new study has shown that the risk of dying in a triathlon is nearly double the risk of dying in a marathon.

The triathlon races involve three phases – swimming, cycling and running, which can be of varying lengths from the “sprint” to the punishing “iron man” involving a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run – the same as a marathon.

However, it is twice as dangerous as marathons.

In the US, 13 of the 14 deaths occurred during the first portion of the swim phase.

Doctors believe that that the stress of jumping into cold water under competitive conditions could cause vulnerable people to hyperventilate or suffer a heart attack.n Britain, two deaths have occurred in recent triathlons, one during the bike race and one involving a competitor who died after the event, while asleep.

Both the deceased had heart abnormalities.

Kevin Harris, a cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute of Abbott Northwestern hospital said the risk was not large, but was also “not inconsequential”, reports the Telegraph.

However, Gary O’Donovan, an exercise physiologist at the University of Exeter strongly disagrees with the idea.

“It is sedentary living that is killing people, not exercise. The last thing we need is a suggestion that exercise is bad for you,” he added. (ANI)

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TomKat’s home relaxing mantra – movie marathon!

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 28 (ANI): Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a unique way of relaxing at home – they watch three films in a row.

“We like to watch three movies in a row,” People magazine quoted Holmes as saying at the Swarovski and Independent Filmmaker Project’s 30th annual gala Sunday night at Cooper Square Hotel.

Cruise and Holmes watch flicks on a giant movie screen in their sprawling 35-million-dollar Beverly Hills home.

“It’s pretty big,” said Holmes.

“I love to watch movies on the big screen,” she added.

Holmes said that the movie marathons keep everyone at home happy, because they combine chick flicks and actions movies.

“I love action movies,” adds Holmes, who says there are indeed those times when Tom, 46, wants to watch something she’d rather not.

“But I’ll watch it anyway, and then we’ll talk about it afterward,” she added. (ANI)

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