The Discovery Channel dubbed it the toughest footrace on earth.
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England tries a quick counter, but Subasic wins a footrace with Rashford.
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Hopefully Biden makes an appearance, so we can finally see that footrace.
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"It's an arms race and it should be a footrace," she told Outside Online.
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Suddenly, he was in a losing footrace with a hurtling, arrowing, hard-flung ball.
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Xerox joins once formidable tech companies like Kodak and BlackBerry that lost the innovation footrace.
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I pictured someone running with only one drumstick, surely a bad metaphor for a footrace.
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He set the fan free, simply so he could win a footrace to the end zone.
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In a long-distance footrace, hovering around second or third place can be a sweet spot.
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Seacrest's pig, who was decked out in a New England jersey, won the footrace by a landslide.
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I'll thank him here -- fittingly on Independence Day -- since I doubt I'll ever catch him in a footrace.
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Hillary Clinton might not beat Donald Trump in the presidential race this fall, but maybe in a footrace ...?
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It might be the sign of friendship, but an Aquarian will totally purposefully trip you during a footrace.
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Heather Marlowe was raped at a party in May 22012, during the city's popular Bay to Breakers footrace.
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Sterling wins a footrace with Lovren — well, not a race, since Sterling was always going to win it.
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But the 2020 Democratic primary, with its historically crowded field, has turned the quadrennial footrace into a hectic stampede.
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Also on his weekend schedule were a hospital fund-raiser and a footrace benefitting an organization called Hope for Depression.
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In a solo effort after receiving a long ball from deep, Armstrong found himself in a footrace with his defender.
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Meier won a footrace to get the puck just outside his own zone and gain a step on the defender.
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So what you have is this footrace between new initiatives and this decline in the traditional linear that is so important.
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The deficit narrowed to one goal less than five minutes later when Nash won a footrace and scored on a backhand.
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Ninety years ago this week, 275 runners set off on the Bunion Derby, a footrace from Los Angeles to New York City.
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And the latest premature celebrator to fall is one Atlanta Braves fan, who was selected to run a footrace with the Freeze.
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The idea the pair devised is a boot camp–style footrace that features obstacles such as barbed wire and butter-greased monkey bars.
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After meeting these initial requirements, the robots participated in a footrace which required the bot to cover 4.5 meters in under a minute.
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He was injected with opium before the final footrace and ran with such crazed abandon that he could only stumble-walk over the finish line.
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They point to an infamous passage on an eighth-grade reading test four years ago, about a talking pineapple that challenged a hare to a footrace.
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It began in 1905, and bills itself as the oldest major trail race in the country (and the second-oldest major footrace, behind the Boston Marathon).
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The world's longest certified footrace is a 3,100-mile loop around an extended city block in New York City that needs to be completed in 52 days.
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After a footrace, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, 82, a resident of a nursing home down the mountain, stroked the cheek of a doll in one of the running lanes.
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"President [Donald] Trump is so determined to get everyone to move their manufacturing out of China that it's become a footrace that not everyone can win, " he said.
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Instead, the episode argues, Kaczynski might have beat Fitzgerald were it a one-on-one match, but where Kaczynski was engaged in a footrace, Fitzgerald was doing a crossword puzzle.
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But for true cool on live television, we're going with Bolt, who after winning yet another footrace was asked for the umpteenth time in his career about his favorite Bob Marley song.
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The comedian and actor pulled a muscle shooting a footrace with Will Smith in their new movie, "Bad Boys for Life," the third in a hit buddy-cop franchise that was birthed 25 years ago.
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The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination is already heating up, with hopefuls from Bernie Sanders to Kamala Harris making moves while Joe Biden presumably gears up to challenge Trump to a literal footrace or something.
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With his team pushing for an equalizer in the final seconds of a match against Arsenal last month, Swansea midfielder Leroy Fer found himself in a footrace with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, one of the Premier League's fastest players.
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They finally completed the 16-mile footrace and were faced with a puzzle, which they failed to complete in the 30-minute time limit, before running onto their boat and making their way towards a seriously restless evening.
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The first round involves boat rowing across the crater lake; that's followed by a footrace in which runners carry a branch weighted with two banana clusters over their shoulders; and finally, there's a swim atop bound reed floats.
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And while details of the discussions have not been revealed, racewalkers have expressed fear that the 50-kilometer event — which is contested by men only and is the longest footrace in the Summer Games, at about 31 miles — will be discontinued.
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And "The Calendar," inspired by Thoth, the Egyptian god of equilibrium, was ingeniously constructed to convey the feeling of an endless chromatic ascent, like an Escher staircase; Mr. Okazaki's solo on the tune was headlong and thrilling, a footrace with no fixed coordinates.
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Well, the latter of the two was somehow lost on Oregon in the waning seconds of what became a tight footrace last night, as North Carolina snatched away the win 77-76 thanks to two huge offensive rebounds off of free throws.
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But I also loved all the little ways this movie immersed us in the details of Le Mans, like the diagram Miles shares with his son of the course, or the footrace to get to the cars that opens the big race.
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Of course it's tempting just to watch the quarterback as he lofts a pass: When a tight spiral is soaring above a dozen athletes' heads as two sculpted men engage in a footrace for the catch, there's an instant of suspended time that is among the aesthetic rewards of football.
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He's flashing a handgun and throwing up Peda Roll Mafia signs; he's filming the low-budget "Dirtbag" video on a palm tree-lined Beverly Hills sidewalk; he's in a giggling footrace with Greedo and then, breathing hard, showing off his "war wounds": a fresh, milky white scar running from his crotch to his sternum.
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D.C. United had sent everyone, including its goalkeeper, forward to try to score off a late corner kick, a risky decision that seemed even more ill-advised when the ball was cleared toward midfield and Rooney found himself in a footrace with Orlando City's Will Johnson — and as the last man between Johnson and D.C. United's open net.
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After seeing so many of the same nightmare scenarios play out on YouTube, I sometimes envision myself being shot by the cops and the cameras: slumped in the front seat of my car with blood spreading across my white T-shirt like Philando Castile; bullets spinning me around like a ballet dancer before I topple to the asphalt like Laquan McDonald; or failing to win a fatal footrace with three bullets like Walter Scott.
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I had to recuse myself from some of the other traditional Thanksgiving preparations, like moving the piles of unread mail off the dining room table, or shifting the heaps of newspaper out of the living room, because I was frantically sewing drumsticks onto watchcaps, trying to attach them firmly so they wouldn't flop around, trying to get them at the appropriate angle, and keep each hat symmetrical (again, I felt it would be bad luck to send anyone out for a footrace wearing a turkey with an obvious orthopedic abnormality).
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The Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race is the longest certified footrace in the world.
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An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of .
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In September 2011, a fire burned five people, two severely, who had been competing in the Kimberley Ultramarathon, an endurance cross country footrace.
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The same year, she finished the most difficult footrace of Europe, the of Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the Alps, at rank thirteen.
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The only woman to have completed every edition of the world's longest certified footrace, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race as winner until 2009.
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Tilin, Andrew. (June 2008) "The Onion vs. Mr. Magoo – On your mark, get set ... hike. Inside a 5,600-mile footrace on the country's hardest trail.".
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The station produces live coverage of the Charlottesville Ten Miler footrace in late March, with commentary duties handled by retired Virginia lacrosse announcer John Freeman.
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The Trans-Gaule is a trans-national ultramarathon the second longest multiday race in France after Le Tour de France Footrace (43days 2776km).It consists of eighteen stages in eighteen consecutive days with a total of 1,150 km, from Roscoff in the English Channel to the Mediterranean. This event is the equivalent to Germany's Deutschlandlauf, the Trans-Europe and the Trans- American Footrace race.
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During this time he would hold festivals for the men and the local villagers and at one of these events he challenged the Lieutenant-Colonel to a footrace and won.
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The Stawell Gift is considered the country's and quite possibly world's most prestigious professional footrace. Over 120m it is televised across the country and thousands are at Stawell every year at Easter.
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Towards the end of the final leg, Chris & Alex passed Tara and later Wil in a footrace to the Finish Line. This marks the closest finish in the American version of The Amazing Race.
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Cole challenged Locker-Lampson to a footrace on a London street, and allowed him to pull ahead. Then he shouted "Stop thief! He's got my watch!" - having previously slipped his gold watch into Locker-Lampson's pocket.
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In May, 4 Deserts will host RacingThePlanet: Namibia 2009, which is a 7-day, 6 stage footrace between Keetmanshoop and Lüderitz in ǁKaras Region, southern Namibia.Namibia 2009 at 4deserts.com. Accessed 2009-08-25. Archived 2009-09-11.
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In follow-on work, she showed that, although long-distance runners should speed up in the final sprint of a race, the optimal strategy for a short footrace involves slowing down towards the end of the race.
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The Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot (commonly called The Trot) is an annual footrace over an course through the city of Dallas, Texas (USA). There is also a 5k run/walk. Participants may choose to register for the 5k as a timed or untimed runner. In 2005, 3,843 harriers completed the Trot, in addition to 22,668 runners in the , making the Dallas Turkey Trot the largest Thanksgiving race in the United States and the second-biggest footrace in the state of Texas, with 26,511 total registered runners.
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After Achilles' death, the Achaeans piled him a mound and held magnificent games in his honor. According to Apollodorus, Diomedes won the footrace. Smyrnaeus says that the wrestling match between him and Ajax the Great came to a draw.
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San Pedro de Atacama is host to the annual "Atacama Crossing", a six-stage, footrace which annually attracts about 150 competitors from 35 countries. The Dakar Rally off-road automobile race has been held in both Chile and Argentina since 2009.
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Trikes were specially made for the race with larger front wheels and stronger frames. Teams were composed of four riders and one optional coach. This event was discontinued in 2002 and replaced with the Little Fifty, a relay-style footrace.
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She likes sports and muscular men. She enjoys watching what Tsuchida does to get Yamamoto's attention. She teaches the students of second-year Sunflower Class. She was Koume's coach and helped her to train for the school sports day's footrace.
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The Warrior Run Community Corporation plans to establish a walking trail along Warrior Run from McEwensville to the Muncy Hills. Since 2006, there has been a 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) footrace partially along Warrior Run near the Warrior Run Middle School.
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June 1992. Trans-American Footrace from Huntington Beach, CA, to New York, NY. Severe blisters forced Howie to drop out in Las Vegas (370 km). December 1992. Ran from Victoria to Sacramento (1190 km) for the Helen Klein 6-day race.
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Just as Constantinople had been the Second Rome, Russia rose to become the Third. In that interpretation, the cowl functions almost as a baton in a footrace, being passed from one city to the next and bearing with it pre- eminence.
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The annual Dipsea Race, a footrace which goes between Mill Valley and Stinson Beach, passes through Muir Woods on the second Sunday in June. The Double Dipsea, later in June and the Quad Dipsea, in November, follow the same course.
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Mount Cooroora plays host to the King of the Mountain Festival.Pomona King of the Mountain Festival . Retrieved 29 July 2013. The main event at the festival is a footrace straight up the mountain drawing participants from all over the world.
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Neither the race nor the accompanying vaudeville show was a financial success. Since 1997, runners have been competing in the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, which is billed as the longest official footrace in the world. They run 100 laps a day for up to 50 days around a single block in Queens, NY, for a total distance of . The current recordholder is Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto, at 40 days 09:06:21 for a daily average of in 2015. The latest Trans-American Footrace (2015) winner was Robert HP Young (Marathon Man UK), winning in a time of 482 hours and 10 minutes.
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The Buffalo Turkey Trot is an annual 8K (4.97 miles) Thanksgiving footrace held in Buffalo, New York each Thanksgiving Day. The Buffalo Turkey Trot, a popular fundraiser for the local branch of the YMCA, runs five miles down Delaware Avenue in Buffalo.
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In 1971, Conley was the first official women's winner of the Bay to Breakers 12K footrace with a time of 50:45. Her husband, Phil Conley, was also an athlete, representing the United States in track and field at the 1956 Olympics.
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He said the club would investigate and exhaust all other options to ensure the survival of Australia's most famous footrace. On 16 September 2009 Victorian Premier John Brumby announced more than $300,000 State Government funding to keep the Stawell Gift in Stawell.
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The city has dozens of gyms and several public swimming pools. Running is also popular in many of Marseille's parks such as Le Pharo and Le Jardin Pierre Puget. An annual footrace is held between the city and neighbouring Cassis: the Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale.
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The current contract operator for Peninsula mainline, Coastside and paratransit services is MV Transportation. SamTrans previously operated special service for a couple of Bay Area events such as San Francisco 49ers home football games and the quirky Bay To Breakers footrace in San Francisco.
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Acanthus the Lacedaemonian (), was the victor in two footrace events, the diaulos () and dolichos (), in the Olympic Games of 720 BC. He was also, according to some accounts, the first who ran naked in these games.Pausanias, v. 8. § 3.Dionys. vii. 72.Sextus Julius Africanus.
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In late April St. Albans hosts the annual Vermont Maple Festival. The festival includes various food-related contests, as well as the Sap Run, a footrace from Swanton, to the north. It was home to the Vermont Voltage, a semi-professional men's soccer team, which folded in 2014.
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The Grand Bara Desert The Grand Bara Desert covers parts of southern Djibouti in the Arta Region, Ali Sabieh Region and Dikhil Region. The majority of the Grand Bara Desert lies at a relatively low elevation, below 1,700 feet (560 m). Home of the popular Grand Bara footrace.
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"The Freeze", a spandex-clad sprinter who races fans at Atlanta Braves games, also appeared. At the June 29 game, the national anthems of both the United States and the United Kingdom were performed by The Kingdom Choir; the ceremonial first pitches were thrown by participants of the Invictus Games with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in attendance; the mascot race was won by Freddie Mercury; and The Freeze lost to a fan in their footrace. At the June 30 game, the national anthems were performed by the Capital Children's Choir; The Freeze defeated a fan in their footrace; and the mascot race was won by King Henry VIII.
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789, &c.; In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, Ajax contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.Homer, Iliad (xxiii. 754), &c.
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"Toe the line" is an idiomatic expression meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand poised at the starting line in a footrace. Other phrases which were once used in the early 1800s and have the same meaning were toe the mark and toe the plank.
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For three straight years he ran all three yearly Self-Transcendence multidays in New York (six days, , 700 miles). He has won the world's longest certified footrace, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race nine times, finishing the 2015 race at record time 40 days 09:06:21 for a daily average of .
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Their ancient events were discontinued, one of which (a footrace for women) had been the sole original competition. Myths relate that after this prohibition, a woman was discovered to have won the competition while wearing the clothing of a man--instituting the policy of nudity among the competitors that prevented such embarrassment again.
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Vergil, Aeneid 5.73, and Servius's note. In the Aeneid, Vergil has Elymnus competing in the funeral games held on Sicily for Anchises, in the footrace in which Nisus and Euryalus are introduced.Aeneid 5.286ff. As Helymus, he is also listed among the competitors by Hyginus, who says he finished second to Euryalus and was awarded an Amazonian quiver.
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Due to logistics and environmental concerns there are only a handful of ultramarathons held in Antarctica, and travel costs can mean entrance fees as high as $14,000. Ultramarathons in Antarctica include: The Last Desert, part of the 4 Deserts Race Series, a multi-stage footrace, and the Antarctic Ice Marathon – a marathon and 100-kilometer race.
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Orsippus () was a Greek runner from Megara who was famed as the first to run the footrace naked at the Olympic Games and "first of all Greeks to be crowned victor naked."W. Sweet. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, 1987; p. 125.Pausanias, 1.44.1. Others argue that it was Acanthus instead who first introduced Greek athletic nudity.
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The 1986 edition set a Guinness Word Record for being world's largest footrace with 110,000 participants, until that was surpassed by the 2010 City2Surf event in Sydney. Attendance in 2015 was reported at roughly 50,000. That year, Zappos.com signed on as the multi-year title sponsor of Bay to Breakers; the name of the race became Zappos.
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Mystic Marathon is a horizontally scrolling arcade game released by Williams Electronics in 1984. The game presents a footrace between horned, shoe- wearing, fantasy creatures on a course covering small islands and the water between them. It was programmed by Kristina Donofrio (lead) and Ken Graham. Donofrio later worked on Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest.
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Newspaper account of the first race in 1912 Started as a way to lift the city's spirits after the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it has been run for more consecutive years over a given course and length than has any other footrace in the world; although other footraces are older and have been run for more consecutive years, their courses and lengths have changed over time. During World War II participation sometimes slipped below 50 registrants, but the tradition carried on. With 110,000 participants, the Bay to Breakers race held on May 18, 1986 was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest footrace. That record number was partly the product of the running boom of the 1980s; currently the average participation is between 70,000 and 80,000.
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Hamilton Island Race Week has a number of social events at the island resort during the Hamilton Island Cup event. The most famous event is King of the Mountain footrace, where runners must race a steep 6 km loop from the resort centre to Passage Peak (the highest peak in the Whitsunday Islands at 234 metres).Hamilton Island. Queensland Places.
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Sostratus (, Sostratos) was an Ancient Greek athlete from Pellene, Achaea. He won the footrace for boys at the Ancient Olympic Games. He was the first Achaean to win at the Olympics since Oebotas of Dyme. According to legend, Oebotas had cursed the Achaeans for not giving him a special prize after his Olympic victory, so that no Achaean should win at the Olympics.
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Fifteen individuals from around the world completed the inaugural event in 2006 becoming the first in the world to complete a 250 km footrace on the Antarctic continent. The Last Desert 2010 took place in November of that year in King George Island, Deception Island, and Dorian Bay. The Last Desert 2010 was featured 3 times on IMG's Transworld Sport.
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In 1987, the crossing became an official, organized footrace. Five runners competed the first year. During the early years of the race, no particular route between Badwater and Whitney was specified and runners attempted various "shortcuts" between the start and finish. Adrian Crane, one of the competitors in the inaugural race, even used cross-country skis to cross the salt-flats at Badwater.
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According to its claim, below the masthead of that issue, it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia". Publication of The Sun ceased on 14 March 1988.Kirkpatrick R. Press Timeline, 1951-2011 at National Library of Australia Some of its content, and sponsorship of the Sydney City to Surf footrace, was continued in The Sun- Herald.
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Flanagan's Run is a 1982 novel written by Scottish athlete and author Tom McNab. Set in 1931, the story covers an epic footrace across the continental United States. 2,000 runners run the 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York City competing for a prize of $150,000. The fictional race was inspired by the actual 1928 Bunion Derby, which covered the same route.
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Racers at a large ridge in the Marathon des Sables. In 1997 Rosie ran across the Sahara desert in the Sahara marathon. Described as 'the toughest footrace on earth', the 'Marathon des Sables' is run over six days and is the equivalent of five and a half normal marathons. Like all the other competitors, Rosie had to carry everything she needed on her back in a rucksack.
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The TAS Triple Crown was instigated in 2014 as an award given to those students who complete three adventure events during their time at the school - the 2 km Coffs Harbour Ocean Swim, the 14 km City to Surf footrace in Sydney, and the 111 km overnight Hawkesbury Canoe Classic. Those who complete the three in the one year are awarded the Gold Triple Crown.
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The Belgrade Race Through History (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдска Трка Кроз Историĵу) is an annual men's footrace of around 6 kilometres (5834 metres) that is held in Belgrade, Serbia. The course of the race traces a path through the capital's ancient fortress; the Kalemegdan. The purpose of the race is to emphasise the history and culture of the city through sport.The Belgrade Race Through History .
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The Miami Marathon is open to all runners, male and female, from any nation, and is an official Boston Marathon qualifier. The race is typically run on the last Sunday in late January or the first Sunday in early February, at approximately 6:10am. The Miami Half Marathon, a race, is started concurrently. A wheelchair division of the marathon begins 5–10 minutes before the footrace.
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Manchester Country Club opened in 1917 and was originally designed by Tom Bendelow and Deveroux Emmet. In 1935, it was redesigned in by A.W. Tillinghast. The golf course features a classical New England design and holds an annual open tournament. Perhaps the most enduring sports legacy of the town is the Manchester Road Race, a 4.748 mile footrace which is held every Thanksgiving morning.
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The 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series is an annual series of four 250-kilometer (155-mile) races across deserts around the globe."Hercules Wimbledon athletics round-up: Felix Allen finishes third in gruelling Sahara Race" London News Online. Retrieved 2017-05-30. The races were recognized as the world's leading endurance footrace series by TIME magazine in 2009 and 2010, as the "Ultimate test of human endurance".
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Albert replied to Barkley, "I believe Dick would beat you in a footrace." In response to that remark, Barkley went on to challenge Bavetta to a race at the 2007 NBA All-Star Weekend for $5,000. The winner was to choose a charity to which the money would be donated. The NBA agreed to pitch in an additional $50,000, and TNT threw in $25,000.
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After the City and County of San Francisco appropriated an additional $200,000, the stadium was built in a year. Dedication ceremonies were on May 2, 1925, and featured a two-mile (3.2 km) footrace between Ville Ritola and Paavo Nurmi of Finland, two of the great runners of the era. A little over a month later, the new stadium hosted the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Farmer Mathias Schmidt donated the land for a Crabapple school, earning the privilege by running a footrace with neighbor Crockett Riley who had also offered to donate land. Area families built the native limestone structure with their own labor. The 1878 school had a single classroom, with an adjoining room for the teacher living quarters. An outer staircase led to a second story storage space.
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Guido Reni – Atalanta and Hippomenes – WGA19271 After the Calydonian boar hunt, Atalanta was rediscovered by her father. He wanted her to be married, but Atalanta, uninterested in marriage, agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. Those who lost would be killed. King Oeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Hippomenes, a grandson of Poseidon, came along.
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Achilles and the tortoise In the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 meters, for example. Suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed, one faster than the other. After some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 meters, bringing him to the tortoise's starting point.
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The Jamsil Olympic Stadium is the finishing point for the race The JoongAng Seoul Marathon is an annual footrace that takes place in Seoul, South Korea, usually in early November. First held in 1999, the race was established as a commemoration of Olympic marathon race which was held as part of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.Travel » Other Marathons » JoongAng Seoul Marathon. Singapore Marathon. Retrieved on 2009-11-07.
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He appears when somebody loses something to take possession of this lost object and then brings it to his big caverns that are located deep under the sea. He appears in the episodes "After the laughter" and "Footrace". King Kyros (voiced by Jack Angel) - the Ice King of Neverland. He owns a giant ice cave with many corridors and tunnels and has some elves as his subworkers.
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Walshs Pyramid (922 m) is an independent peak with a distinct pyramidal appearance, 20 km south of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. An annual footrace is held on the third Saturday in August, to its summit. The "Pyramid race" starts at the nearby town of Gordonvale and attracts hundreds of competitors aiming to win the $1000 prize money. For experienced hikers, the ascent and descent can take 4 to 6 hours.
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Slievenamon summit cairn The origin of the mountain's name is explained in Irish mythology. According to the tale, the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill was sought after by many young women. Fionn stood atop the mountain and declared that whichever woman won a footrace to the top would be his wife. Since Fionn and Gráinne were in love, he had shown her a short-cut and she duly won the race.
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Daniel and Bock, Island No. 10, pp. 133-134. The motion was detected by Pope's spies, who gave the information to Pope. Pope then diverted his soldiers to Tiptonville, and the operation became a footrace rather than the expected battle. Mackall's only hope was that the gunboats would not interfere, but they did, and the retreat of his army was delayed long enough for Pope's men to get to Tiptonville first.
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Polyakova participated at Istanbul Marathon in 2007 and 2008, without success. From the 2011 Lycian Way Ultramarathon on including, she won all the women's category titles of ultramarathon events held in Turkey. At the long ultramarathon of 2012 Atacama Crossing in Chile, which is the first of the 4 Deserts endurance footrace series, she placed fourth. In 2013, Polyakova won the Two Castles and an Abbey Trail Ultra in Cyprus.
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The novel tells the story of fifth grader Jesse Aarons, who becomes friends with his new neighbor, Leslie Burke, after he loses a footrace to her at school. Leslie is a smart, talented, outgoing tomboy from a wealthy family, and Jesse thinks highly of her. Jesse is an artistic boy from a poorer family who, in the beginning, is fearful, angry, and depressed. After meeting Leslie, however, his life is transformed.
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The philosopher Zeno of Elea centred one of his paradoxes on an imaginary footrace between "swift-footed" Achilles and a tortoise, by which he attempted to show that Achilles could not catch up to a tortoise with a head start, and therefore that motion and change were impossible. As a student of the monist Parmenides and a member of the Eleatic school, Zeno believed time and motion to be illusions.
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The only difference in the starting of the races is the openness in betting. While the Iditarod consists of privately placed wagers, the celebratory nature of kickball shows everyone constantly betting in the open. The dangerous natures of the races are both very high. While the Mexican footrace has a smaller area and consists of more community, the Iditarod has deadly factors like wild animals and negative sixty-degree F temperatures.
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Her father claimed her as his daughter and wished to marry her off. > However, Atalanta was reluctant to marry due to a prophecy that marriage > would be her downfall. Because of her beauty, she gained a number of suitors > and finally agreed to marry, but under the condition that her suitor was > obligated to beat her in a footrace. Competitors who failed to beat her > would be put to death.
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Hippomenes asked the goddess Aphrodite for help, and she gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Hippomenes, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it. In this way, Hippomenes won the footrace and came to marry Atalanta. In some versions, Atalanta loved Hippomenes and hoped he would win.
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In 1985, the Academic All- American and recipient of the NCAA Top Six Award set a then-NCAA record in the 10,000 meters with a time of 27:41:05. He finished his collegiate career with four NCAA Championships. In 1986, Eyestone won the San Francisco Bay to Breakers 12 km race,Bay to Breakers winners defeating an estimated 110,000 competitors in what the Guinness Book of Records considers the world's largest footrace.
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Winner Jim Duffy (1912) on the bridge over Burlington Canal. The Around the Bay Road Race is the oldest long distance road race in North America, held in Hamilton, Ontario since 1894. It is not marathon length, nor has it continuously run (thus the Boston Marathon, founded in April 1897, is the longest running marathon. The longest continually-running footrace in North America is the Bemis-Forslund Pie Race, founded in 1891.
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Sonic racing on the "Resort Island" race track Sonic R is a racing video game with single-player and multiplayer modes. The player selects a character and participates in a footrace on one of five race tracks, competing for the fastest time ahead of the other racers. Four characters are initially available, while the other six are secret characters that become available when the player completes certain in-game objectives.Official Guide, p.
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Powderhall was also used for football, being the home ground of Leith Athletic from 1926 to 1928 and Edinburgh City from 1931 to 1934. It later became a venue for motorcycle speedway, with the Edinburgh Monarchs racing there from 1977 until 1995. The Powderhall Sprint, first held in 1870, was a professional footrace with handicapping of the runners. It continues, since 1999, as the New Year Sprint and is now held at Musselburgh Racecourse.
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He then won a postgraduate scholarship to study for his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania under supervisor Lawrence Klein. Between 1975 and 1989, Higgins was a senior executive officer in the Department of the Treasury, including as a deputy secretary from 1984. He was appointed Secretary of the department in September 1989. Higgins died in Bruce, Australian Capital Territory from heart failure on 6 December 1990, aged 47, having just won a footrace.
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The Manchester Road Race is a 4.748 mile (7.641 km) footrace held annually on Thanksgiving Day in Manchester, Connecticut. Race proceeds are donated each year to Muscular Dystrophy research and about 18 other local charities. Beginning promptly at 10:00am every Thanksgiving Morning, the race attracts athletes of all ages and abilities. First run in 1927, the race regularly attracts accomplished runners from across the United States as well as internationally recognized competitors.
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Chuck follows and after being ambushed in the restroom, he flashes and disarms his opponent. Chuck is unable to kill Perry when he protests he has no choice but to work for the Ring, and arrests him instead. Perry attempts to flee and Chuck gives chase through the train station. The two end in a footrace outside the station, as seen in the beginning of the episode, with Chuck eventually cornering Perry.
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A Bithynian nicknamed GRAUS won the Olympic dolichos three times in a row (? 213-221 CE) and FLAVIUS Metrobius claims 140 victories in the late first century CE. The achievement of POLITES of Caria, who won STADION, DIAULOS and dolichos on the same day at Olympia (69 BC), was as remarkable."Miller, p. 32. "At the next Olympiad, in 720, a long- distance footrace called the dolichos was added to the program.
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Shanti Ram Nepal is a long distance marathon runner from Samdong, East Sikkim, Sikkim, India who completed a 500 km footrace in 74 hr which is starting from Gangtok at 11.00 am on August 25, 2014, he proceeded via Mangan-Ravangla- Gyalshing-Melli route to finish the race at Gangtok at 1.00 pm on August 28, 2014 and was listed longest/fastest run on hill roads in the Limca book of records.
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The palaestra of Olympia, a place devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes The ancient Olympic Games were originally a festival, or celebration, of and for Zeus; events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added later. The Olympic Games (, Olympia,. "the Olympics"; also , ,. "the Olympiad") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece.
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The Bridge to Breakwater is a footrace, bicycle race, and skateboard race held along the Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro, California, that featured 12k and 5k distances. The first time this race came together was on Labor Day Weekend in 2006. In 2007 the race was promoted but had to be staged informally. The race was not formally held in 2008, however is walked, run and skateboarded informally every year by many locals.
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The Beezley Hills Recreation Area (, near Ephrata, Washington) has of trails and opened in 2012. The Beezley Burn is an annual cross-country mountain bike competition that ran there for the eighth year in 2014. It starts and ends in Ephrata, with a course that extends about up into the east end of the Beezley Hills. An earlier footrace in 2000 was also called the Beezley Burn and followed a similar course.
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The Victorian Athletic League organises professional footrunning events ranging from 70 to 3200 metres. The most famous of these events is the Stawell Gift which has been run since 1878 and hosts the richest footrace in Australia. Many other gifts are held around Victoria in country and metro locations including Ballarat, Bendigo, Wangaratta, Maryborough, Keilor, Yarrawonga, Ringwood, Rye and Olympic Park. Races are run under a handicap system which makes races competitive.
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By the early 1960s, interest in professional running had waned. The number of registered runners had declined and only twenty-eight carnivals were held across Victoria. In an effort to revive the sport, the Victorian Athletic League invited champion international athletes such as Bob Hayes, Alan Simpson and Robbie Hutchison to compete in Australia. In 1969, the St Kilda club staged the richest footrace in the world with a first prize of $2,000.
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The game is a left-to-right footrace between the player-controlled creature and six controlled by the computer. The goal is to finish in the top three to progress to the next race. A map at the top of the screen shows the entire course and position of the contestants. Each island contains multiple paths, and the creatures have to swim the water between the islands, which is slower than running.
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The athlete on the bottom would try to grasp an arm of the one on top and turn him over onto his back while the athlete on top would try to complete the choke without being rolled. Wrestling was the first competition to be added to the Olympic Games that was not a footrace. It was added in 708 B.C. (Miller, 46). The competitions were held in elimination-tournament style until one wrestler was crowned the victor.
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Bagnall saw active service during the war, being wounded in his left shoulder and arm while serving in France, and was subsequently discharged in 1916. It was initially feared he would be permanently disabled, but he recovered enough to take up a job at Welbeck Colliery and played for their football team. In 1921, he took part in a charity footrace at Hyde Park, organised by the Park Ex-Serviceman to raise funds for a new sports pavilion.
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The LA Marathon (formerly the City of Los Angeles Marathon) is an annual running event held each spring in Los Angeles, California. The 26.219 mile (42.195 km) footrace, inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, has been contested every year since 1986. The 34th edition of the marathon took place on March 24, 2019. The marathon is currently sponsored by Asics, and thus its official title is LA Marathon 2020, presented by Asics.
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Nearby Cornell Peak is named for Cornell University, the alma mater of geologist Robert T. Hill. Perkins and Hill were camping in Round Valley when Hill remarked that the peak looked like the campanile tower at Cornell. Perkins later named the peak Cornell Peak. In 1931 and 1932, the San Jacinto Mountain Chamber of Commerce sponsored a Labor Day footrace from Idyllwild to San Jacinto Peak and back, a distance of 18 miles and 5,300 feet.
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Over the scoreboard in right field is a Diamond Vision video screen. The out of town scoreboard provides scores for other California League games. Fans are treated to a variety of games and entertainment in-between innings. Such activities include a tire toss, a child footrace around the bases and a fan favorite, "Smash 4 Cash", a competition where players attempt to smash the headlights of an old delivery truck to split a $50 prize with a fan.
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Others lead to a runoff or special election. Still others are decided by some third party such as the legislature or a high-ranking elected official. In one case in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1891, it was settled with a 200-yard footrace. In that case William Simms seemed to be cruising to an easy victory for County Treasurer when he tripped and fell 3 yards from the finish line allowing Frank Hollowell to win the race instead.
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Monument to the victims of the Cherry Valley massacre A monument was dedicated at Cherry Valley on August 15, 1878, at the centennial anniversary of the massacre. Former New York Governor Horatio Seymour delivered a dedication address at the monument to an audience of about 10,000 persons, saying: Years after the massacre, Benjamin Stacy's home village of New Salem, Massachusetts, celebrated the annual Old Home Day holiday with a Benjamin Stacy footrace, honoring his escape at Cherry Valley.
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Facing fourth-and-five from the nine-yard line, Young received the shotgun snap and found his receivers covered. Young bolted towards the right sideline and received a critical block from Justin Blalock and won a footrace to the end zone. That score, Young's third rushing touchdown of the game, gave the Longhorns a one-point lead with 19 seconds left to play. When Texas lined up for a two-point conversion, USC used its last time out.
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After gaining fame as the winner of the Sheffield Handicap, Farrell returned to the United States and signed up to race a horse at the Barnum & Bailey Circus in New York's Hippodrome. The "Horse vs. Man" race had become a regular feature of the Barnum & Bailey show, with the man being given a handicap in a footrace against a horse. Farrell announced that he would race against the horse with no handicap, and the widely publicized event drew 10,000 paying customers.
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Sometimes, other unpredictable processes, such as a footrace, were used in place of the expiration of a candle. Auction by the candle was known in England by 1641, when it is mentioned in the records of the House of Lords.William S. Walsh A Handy Book Of Curious Information Comprising Strange Happenings in the Life of Men and Animals, Odd Statistics, Extraordinary Phenomena and Out of the Way Facts Concerning the Wonderlands of the Earth. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1913. 63-64.
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Map The Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race is the world's longest certified footrace. In 1996 Sri Chinmoy created this event as a 2,700-mile (4,345 km) race. At the award ceremony that year he declared that the 1997 edition would be extended to 3,100 miles (4,989 km). This multi-day race is hosted by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team and takes place in Queens, New York in the United States from June–August every year. The course is 3,100 miles (4,989 km) long.
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Jez Bragg setting a new West Highland Way Race record of 15 h 44 m 50 s on 24 June 2006 There are several ultramarathons held on the West Highland Way. The Highland Fling Race is an annual race from Milngavie to Tyndrum. The Devil o' the Highlands Footrace is from Tyndrum to Fort William, along the northern section of the way. The West Highland Way Race is an annual race along the full south–north distance of the West Highland Way.
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Until about the age of eighteen women were taught to run, wrestle, throw a discus, and also to throw javelins.Pomeroy, Spartan Women, 13-14. The skills of the young women were tested regularly in competitions such as the annual footrace at the Heraea of Elis,Pomeroy, Spartan Women, 24. In addition to physical education, the young girls also were taught to sing, dance, and play instruments often by traveling poets such as Alcman or by the elderly women in the polis.
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RUNNING FOR FREEDOM (Documentary film) In July 2018, he was the subject of a documentary featured film, "Running for Freedom: My Journey as an Ultra Marathon Runner" by an independent filmmaker James Castillo, based in Los Angeles, CA. The story is about running his 5th Badwater 135, considered as the world's toughest footrace. Together with his crew, Gerald has to cross 2 deserts, climb 3 mountains, and run 135 miles during record-breaking heat across Death Valley within 48 hrs.
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At the collegiate level, the San Francisco Dons compete in NCAA Division I. Bill Russell led the Don's basketball team to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956. There is also the San Francisco State Gators, who compete in NCAA Division II. Oracle Park hosted the annual Fight Hunger Bowl college football game from 2002 through 2013 before it moved to Santa Clara. The Bay to Breakers footrace, held annually since 1912, is best known for colorful costumes and a celebratory community spirit.
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The student rowing club D.R.V. Euros has produced several national champions and one Olympic Champion. DOS-WK played until 2006 in the highest competition of korfball, the 'Korfbal League'. Enschede (Old Church to University) is the final stage of the Batavierenrace, a footrace relay beginning in Nijmegen, contested mostly by university student teams and claimed to be the largest relay races in the world, with 8000 participants. Enschede built the second indoor speed skating arena in the country, IJsbaan Twente.
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He was on trail 719 hours 47.2 minutes. On June 2, 2015, British ultra runner Robert HP Young won the 2015 Race Across USA footrace with a time of 482 hours 10 minutes. The race started in Huntington Beach, California, and took the southern route on both road and trail to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland with a total distance of . Young subsequently attempted a solo run across the U.S. in 2016 to break the crossing record, though stopped part-way.
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Mount Hosmer, near Lansing, Iowa is named after Hosmer; she won a footrace to the summit of the hill during a steamboat layover during the 1850s.Sherwood, Dolly, ‘’Harriet Hosmer, American Sculptor: 1830-1908’’ University of Missouri Press, Columbia MO, 1991 p. 31 During World War II the Liberty ship was built in Panama City, Florida, and named in her honor. A book of poetry, Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life Of Harriet Hosmer, by Carole Simmons Oles, was published in 2006.
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An aerial view of Yankee Stadium shows the asymmetrical shape of the venue. Yankee Stadium was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball parks to be given the lasting title of stadium. Baseball teams typically played in a park or a field. The word stadium deliberately evoked ancient Greece, where a stade was a unit of measure—the length of a footrace; the buildings that housed these footraces were called stadia.
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Naval Air Station Jacksonville is one of the service's largest air installations, home to two air wings and over 150 fixed-wing and rotary- wing aircraft, and the host for one of only two full-fledged Naval Hospitals remaining in Florida. Using an unofficial nickname of "The River City", Jacksonville has a culture centered on the St. Johns. An annual footrace named the Gate River Run accepts 18,000 participants who travel a course along and over the river twice."Gate River Run" Event website.
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Ruins of the Temple of Hera at Olympia A running girl. The short chiton she wears, exposing her right breast, and her loose hair, are distinctive characteristics of the competitors in the Heraean Games. This marble statue is likely a Roman copy of a Greek original, from 460 BC. Bronze running girl, 560 BC. The figure is probably from Laconia, and dressed as a competitor in the Heraean Games. The Heraea was an ancient Greek festival in which young girls competed in a footrace.
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Kieren D’Souza is an Indian ultramarathon runner and endurance athlete. In 2016, he became the first and, as of October 2016, the only Indian to qualify for and finish the Spartathlon, a 246 kilometre footrace from Athens to Sparta held annually in Greece. Kieren, then aged 23, completed the race in 33 hours, 2 minutes and 25 seconds, standing 85th among 370 participants. Till 2016, only 29 athletes under the age of 25 had completed the race that has been held annually since 1983.
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Artistic young Jess Aarons deals with the hardships of his home life, such as his duties on his family's farm and the annoyances of his four sisters. Leslie Burke is an intelligent, wealthy girl who has just moved down the road from him. After Jess trains all summer to become his class's fastest runner, he becomes infuriated when Leslie outruns him in a recess footrace. Jess eagerly anticipates the arrival of music class due to his infatuation for its beautiful and kind young teacher, Miss Edmunds.
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His other winger in 1954, Kevin Considine, scored 22 tries in the same season, and their combined try total of 56 tries from a pair of club wingers is also a record. Preston was also a professional runner, winning the Hanlon Gift (which was Queensland's largest 'prize money' footrace of the era) in Brisbane in 1957. He played a season at Macksville in 1957 before Sydney's Parramatta signed him for the 1958 NSWRFL season. Preston played two seasons at Parramatta before retiring at the end of 1959.
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Andy Payne in 1935. Andy Hartley Payne (November 17, 1907 – December 3, 1977) was the winner of the International Trans-Continental Footrace in 1928. He ran the route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds, (23 days) averaging over an 84-day staged run. Payne, a member of the Cherokee tribe, grew up in Foyil, Oklahoma which was one of the check point towns along the route of the race.
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His father was a friend of Will Rogers and had worked on the ranch of the latter's family during his youth. The footrace was organized to promote U.S. Route 66 which had recently been built as a simple, well-paved route across the country, and dubbed "the main street of America". First prize was $25,000 which Payne used to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm. Andy Payne was elected clerk to the supreme court in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and was reelected 5 times afterwards.
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The most famous of these settlers was Asa Prior. According to local legend, the water rights to Big Spring were won for the white settlers by a local white boy in a footrace with a Cherokee youth. Some versions of the legend differ, saying that the rights to the spring were won by the Cherokee people from the Creek people in a ball game. "Big Strickland" became "Cedar Town" when Prior deeded ten acres of adjacent land to the newly chartered city in 1852.
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The other stations eventually closed their doors and were demolished leaving only the Foyil Filling Station standing. However, it too closed after hanging on for several years after Route 66 was relocated a short distance to the west, in 1962. The station began and ended as a Texaco Filling Station making it one of the oldest Texaco stations still standing on Route 66. Foyil native Andrew Hartley Payne ran past the Filling Station on his way to winning the Great Transcontinental Footrace of 1928.
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It is generally accepted that Athena is closest to Diomedes in the epic. For example, although both Odysseus and Diomedes were favorites of the goddess Athena, Odysseus prayed for help even before the start the above footrace, whereas Diomedes received Athena's help without having to ask. In the early traditions, Athena (a virgin goddess) is described as being shy in the company of males. But she spoke to the hero without any disguise in Book V where he could see her in the true divine form (a special vision was granted to him).
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After a warning from an oracle about getting married, she declared that whoever wanted to marry her was to beat her in a footrace (herself being a notoriously swift runner), and that those who should try and lose would be punished by instant death. Another version (followed by Hyginus) was that her father wanted her to be married, but she did not. She agreed to running races against her suitors because she thought she would never lose. Atalanta raced all her suitors and outran all but Hippomenes, who defeated her by cunning, not speed.
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For his skill in running and fencing, Patton was selected as the Army's entry for the first modern pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Of 42 competitors, Patton placed twenty- first on the pistol range, seventh in swimming, fourth in fencing, sixth in the equestrian competition, and third in the footrace, finishing fifth overall and first among the non-Swedish competitors. There was some controversy concerning his performance in the pistol shooting competition, where he used a .38 caliber pistol while most of the other competitors chose .
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The 6-Day Race became a standard footrace distance in the 1870s and was a popular form of entertainment where up to 70,000 paying visitors, in 1877, came to watch the Pedestrians battle it out. However the widespread use of the bicycle from 1890 caused it to be replaced as spectator sport by cycle races of the same duration.Noakes, T. D., (2006) Basic Research in Cardiology 101 408–417 The limits of endurance exercise It was in two forms: strict "heel- and-toe" racewalking, or "go-as-you-please" combination of walking, jogging, running.
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The first footrace on the walkway occurred the day after the official opening on October 4, 2009. The 5k race started on the Highland side, crossed to the Poughkeepsie side and turned around at the parking lot and finished back in Highland. The race was won by James Boeding in a time of 16:26. The female winner was Kira DeCaprio in 20:12. There were 660 recorded finishers of the race. The 5K race, called "Treetops to Rooftops," has become an annual event, organized by the Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club.
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The Stawell Gift began in 1878 at the end of the gold rush, as the "Easter Gift" of £24 (several thousands in today's dollars) conducted by the Stawell Athletic Club in a program of seven races, most run in multiple heats. It has been raced every year since, except for four years during the Second World War. Originally it was the townspeople putting together an entertainment package to happen over Easter, complete with 'special trains' to the event. Today it is the most prestigious footrace in Australia, with a $40,000AUD first prize.
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Anschutz Entertainment Group also owned the Tour of California bicycling race and the Bay to Breakers footrace. The company also managed the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and managed the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut until 2013. They previously operated Rentschler Field in Hartford from 2007 to 2010, during which they held a stake in the now-defunct Hartford Colonials of the UFL. In April 2016, AEG announced a partnership with eSports company ESL; the next year the company also announced an investment in the North American esports organization, Immortals.
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McCants and Emmitt Smith became friends while both playing in the SEC in college, with both being named to the 1989 All American team. Smith twice called McCants for advice leading up to his decision to announce for the 1990 Draft. According to his biography, while still a child WNBA player Lindsey Harding was inspired by a footrace with McCants to enter the world of sports. After leaving the NFL, McCants, who studied Criminal Justice while at the University of Alabama, became the first black marine police officer in the state of Alabama.
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When Pyle's application for the Yankees joining the NFL was rejected, he announced the formation of the first American Football League in 1926. The league lasted one season before folding. In 1926, Pyle signed Lenglen and several of the best tennis players in the world to start the first professional tennis tour, which traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada. Two years later, he inaugurated the first Trans-American Footrace, known as the Bunion Derby, an ambitious, 3455-mile-long foot race from Los Angeles, California, to Chicago, Illinois, to New York.
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Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace in San Francisco, California typically on the third Sunday of May. The phrase "Bay to Breakers" reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarcadero (adjacent to San Francisco Bay) and runs west through the city to finish at the Great Highway (adjacent to the Pacific coast, where breakers crash onto Ocean Beach). The complete course is long. Bay to Breakers is well known for many participants wearing costumes.
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1928 publicity photograph of KGGM (now KNML), a "portable broadcast station" hired by C. C. Pyle, which each evening transmitted reports along the route of the race.Anaconda (Montana) Standard, April 22, 1928, page 10-B.One of the earliest twentieth century multiday races was the inaugural Trans-American Footrace, which took place in 1928 starting at Legion Ascot Speedway in Los Angeles and finishing in New York City in Madison Square Garden for a distance of . Out of the 199 runners who left Los Angeles on March 4, 1928, at 3:30 p.m.
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The out-of-town scoreboard displaying other California League game scores was manually operated using hand-hung number cards. In 2006, the simple scoreboard was replaced with a 21-by-15-foot video screen costing $500,000, and the out-of-town scoreboard was no longer used. Between innings, fans are treated to a variety of games and entertainment, such as kids' air guitar, a child footrace around the bases, or throwing a baseball at a truck's headlights for prizes. The San Jose Giants also added a mascot, Gigante, for the 2006 season.
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The infield fences are in foul territory, and a ball hit over them isn't a home run; consequently, they are often lower than the outfield fences to provide a better view for spectators. Sometimes, the outfield fence is made higher in certain areas to compensate for a close proximity to the batter. In professional parks, the field is surrounded by an area roughly wide made of dirt or rubberized track surface called a "warning track". Originally used in Yankee Stadium in 1923 as an actual footrace track, it is now present in all major league ballparks.
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Although the games are an episode in the wanderings, they recall the funeral games for Patroclus in Iliad 23; Lee Fratantuono, Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid (Lexington Books, 2007), p. 131. The games demonstrate behaviors that in the war to come will result in victory or defeat; in particular, the footrace in which Nisus and Euryalus compete prefigures their disastrous mission.W.S. Anderson, The Art of the Aeneid (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005, originally published 1969) , p. 60. The five runners are, in the order in which they would have finished, Nisus, Salius, Euryalus, Elymus, and Diores.
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Sometimes, other unpredictable events, such as a footrace, were used in place of the expiration of a candle. This type of auction was first mentioned in 1641 in the records of the House of Lords.William S. Walsh A Handy Book Of Curious Information Comprising Strange Happenings in the Life of Men and Animals, Odd Statistics, Extraordinary Phenomena and Out of the Way Facts Concerning the Wonderlands of the Earth. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1913. 63-64. The practice rapidly became popular, and in 1660 Samuel Pepys' diary recorded two occasions when the Admiralty sold surplus ships "by an inch of candle".
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The Peachtree Road Race (branded AJC Peachtree Road Race for sponsorship reasons) is a 10-kilometer run held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. After being held on Independence Day from 1970 to 2019, the race was cancelled for 2020 because of the potential COVID-19 impact in Fulton County, a title it has held since the late 1970s. The race has become a citywide tradition in which over 70,000 amateur and professional runners try to register for one of the limited 60,000 spots. The event also includes a wheelchair race (known as the Shepherd Center wheelchair division), which precedes the footrace.
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Rumour was rife at the time of such an assembly being formed, and that Holland had marched thither from Kingston. But in fact he had marched to Dorking, and Major Audeley, who was on his track, went over Banstead Downs without finding him or the assembly. The rising had in fact exploded prematurely. There is evidence of races at Banstead as early as 1625, when the Banstead Downs Plate of £20 value was run on 24 August of that year. A notable footrace was run in 1663, and a famous prize-fight is recorded in 1669.
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On July 9, 2003, while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, during the Milwaukee Brewers' "Sausage Race," in which four contestants wearing sausage costumes have a footrace on the field, Simon leaned over the dugout railing and hit college student Mandy Block (in the Italian sausage costume) with a bat, causing her to fall into the path of another racer. His bat struck only the top padded part of the costume, well above her head position, causing her to lose her balance. Block suffered only a scraped knee. Simon was questioned by police and later fined $432.10 for disorderly conduct.
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Improvements to buildings and land were made and reported from time to time. In 1904 it was reported that improvements on the Mission property itself were made to the value of over , and in 1907 a underground tank was to be constructed at Deebing Creek Mission to alleviate the poor water supply. The 1907 Protector's Report published a photograph of Deebing Creek Mission which shows about 8 homes in the background with numerous people in the foreground of the image. The Aboriginal people were interested in attending and competing in the footrace in Ipswich called the Sheffield Handicap.
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Jones's films consist of 29 silent black-and-white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928. They contain 355 minutes of footage shot with then-new 16 mm cameras. The films document a rich tapestry of everyday life: funerals, sporting events, schools, parades, businesses, Masonic meetings, river baptisms, families at home, African- American oil barons and their wells, black colleges, Juneteenth celebrations and a transcontinental footrace. Jones's films have been preserved by the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the Yale University Library, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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The name for the Kalamazoo River was then known by Canadians and French as La rivière Kikanamaso. The name "Kikanamaso" was also recorded by Father Pierre Potier, a Jesuit missionary for the Huron- Wendats at the Assumption mission (south shore of Detroit), while en route to Fort Saint-Joseph during the fall of 1760. Legend has it that "Ki-ka-ma-sung", meaning "boiling water", referring to a footrace held each fall by local Native Americans, who had to run to the river and back before the pot boiled.Kalamazoo and how it Grew...and Grew, Dunbar, 1959.
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Man dressed as a Turkey takes part in a 10K run on Thanksgiving Day A turkey trot is a footrace, usually of the long-distance variety, that is held on or around Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Its name is derived from the use of turkey as the usual centerpiece of the Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey trots are also held in the United Kingdom, usually shortly before or after Christmas Day. In the United States, many courses used for these Thanksgiving events are run at major certified USA Track & Field road race distances between 5,000 and 21,098 meters; others are informal fun runs as short as .
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The Leadville Trail 100 MTB race is an outgrowth of the Leadville Trail 100 footrace. Both races were begun by Ken Chlouber as part of an effort to spur the economy of the town of Leadville after a local mine that employed many residents closed (the Climax mine). The mountain bike race was the idea of Tony Post, then a marketing vice president at the Rockport Company, sponsor of the event who arranged for television coverage for both races. The first mountain bike race drew just 150 entrants, while the 2009 edition allowed 1400 entrants.. The race has continued to grow and expand its entrant base.
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These Pis Bolong with rerajahan (Balinese for "sacred drawing" or "sacred handwriting") were seen as supposedly carrying the magical powers of the symbols depicted on them and as long as the carrier has faith in the powers of the cash coin. Because of these rumours would arise if someone unlikely to gain something would carry around a Pis Bolong with rerajahan to gain it, for example if someone wins a footrace they will be rumoured to carry a Pis Jaran (a Pis Bolong with the rerajahan of a horse), while an ugly man who would marry a very beautiful female human would be rumoured to owned a Pis Rejuna.
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Archibald's emotional turmoil continues to dominate him ("Where In the World"); however, Lily's ghost reappears, Archibald is able to see her, and she tells him that she always loved him. They come to the conclusion that her death was no one's fault, and Archibald can finally let her go as she tells him to care for their child and go home to the garden ("How Could I Ever Know"). Returning, he enters the garden to find Colin completely healthy; in fact, he is beating Mary in a footrace when Archibald walks through the door. Archibald, a changed man, sends Neville away to his Paris flat and triumphantly embraces Mary and Colin back into his life.
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While filling in for an injured Steve Kerr on a Los Angeles Lakers-Sacramento Kings broadcast, Charles Barkley made disparaging comments about the age of referee Dick Bavetta. The conversation between Barkley and play-by-play man Marv Albert eventually led him to comment that he could outrun Bavetta, and any other man of his age (Bavetta was 67 at the time). This led Johnson and Smith to note that Bavetta, a physically fit referee whose job required him to run up and down the court on a nightly basis, would likely beat Barkley in a race. Bavetta challenged Barkley to a footrace, which was then scheduled for the upcoming All-Star Weekend.
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The second is that to settle a dispute between Elis and Pisa, the Eleans selected a wise elderly woman from each of sixteen polites in Elis to settle the dispute; these women were also given the responsibility of organising the Heraea. The Heraean Games may have been puberty rites or pre-nuptial rituals. Matthew Dillon argues that as there were three different age categories for competitors, the ceremonies were unlikely to be associated with marriage. On the other hand, the races were associated with a mythological wedding, and other races between girls in ancient Greece (such as a footrace in honour of Dionysos held at Sparta, also described by Pausanias) seem to have been associated with pre-nuptial initiations.
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The ten teams had to split themselves into two groups of five, each of which had to row a Viking boat across a fjord to a marked dock with a clue box. During the fifth leg, one of the show's most controversial moments occurred at the Pit Stop when Jonathan, angry at his wife Victoria for picking up his bag during a footrace to the mat, shoved her. He was modestly rebuked at the mat by Phil Keoghan who saw Jonathan berating his wife but hadn't witnessed the shove. The sixth leg was originally planned as two separate legs with the first part being a non- elimination point (with the losing team being stripped of their money).
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In 1907, for the purposes of the Aborigines attending the footrace, the operation of the 1897 to 1901 Act was suspended for same. This referred to the Aboriginals Protection and the Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 which controlled the movement of Aboriginal people outside the reserves; they were required to have a permit to travel. In 1909 it was reported that a new home had been erected beside the school for the committal children. The reports during this time also showed a gradual improvement in the farming operations, with an increase in stock and vegetable produce which supplied the Mission with meat, milk and vegetables, with some at times being sold to supplement the Mission's income.
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Nance began running as a senior in high school and completed his first marathon in college, qualifying for the 2011 and 2012 Boston Marathon. Nance ran his first ultramarathon, a 50 km on the UK's Jurassic Coast, in December 2011 and finished 10th place. He has since completed numerous international ultramarathons, including in Chile, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the UK. Nance finished a 250 km ultramarathon across the Gobi Desert in June 2014. Nance's Gobi crossing was profiled by Adventure World Magazine where he credited the encouragement of fellow runners and the medical team's professionalism for enabling him to finish the 250 km footrace despite injuring his knee halfway.
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In the season 1 episode The Middle-Earth Paradigm, the four main male characters on the show all independently dress up for a Halloween party as the Flash before deciding that they can't all be the Flash so no one gets to. In the season 10 episode The Birthday Synchronicity, Sheldon bought a Flash onesie for Howard & Bernadette's newborn. In season 3 of Lost, in the episode "Catch-22", Charlie and Hurley debate over who would win a footrace between The Flash and Superman. The false name Barry Allen is used by character of con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr.(posing as a Secret Service Agent), in the movie Catch Me If You Can.
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Following his discharge from the Army, became a Special Events Organiser. He has organised the Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon, the Anzac Day Marathon, the Round Australia Relay for the Australian Cancer Foundation, the Great Australian Caravan Safari, the Darwin-Cairns-Melbourne Relay for the Melbourne Olympic Committee, and the international George Street Mile footrace. He was a Consultant to Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and also a Facilitator for Adventure West Leadership and Survival Training activities. He was a Trek Leader for Adventure Kokoda and a developer of the Kokoda Youth Leadership Challenge. A keen fun-runner, Lynn was placed second in the Centenary ultramarathon in 1986, with a time of 8 hours 26 minutes.
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In 1999, Goodstein founded the Green House Network, an organization dedicated to supporting the clean energy movement. As the volunteer Executive Director of the organization, Goodstein led a series of weekend training workshops in grassroots organization and outreach, based in part on the techniques and principles of the Highlander Center, training over 600 volunteer educators. Goodstein also set up a national speakers’ bureau of climate, energy policy, and environmental experts, preceding Vice-President Al Gore's Climate Project speaker-training initiative. Between 2000 and 2004, Goodstein worked with Matthew Follett to produce the Race to Stop Global Warming, a 10K non-competitive footrace that involved thousands of runners and their families in eight cities across the United States.
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The Corrida de Houilles, officially Corrida pédestre internationale de Houilles (Houilles International Footrace), is an annual 10K run that takes place at the end of December in Houilles, France. The competition was created in 1972 by Alexandre Joly, a French politician who would later become Mayor of Houilles. He was inspired by the Saint Silvester Road Race in São Paulo and decided to set up his own local race in his hometown with the same format – hosting the race on New Year's Eve. Initially a men's event only on a course of around , the race attracted high level competition from the beginning, with Poland's Bronisław Malinowski winning the 1974 race the same year as his gold medal win at the 1974 European Athletics Championships.
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Galatea (1717) by Jean Raoux, showing Aphrodite bringing the statue to life In Hesiod's Works and Days, Zeus orders Aphrodite to make Pandora, the first woman, physically beautiful and sexually attractive, so that she may become "an evil men will love to embrace". Aphrodite "spills grace" over Pandora's head and equips her with "painful desire and knee-weakening anguish", thus making her the perfect vessel for evil to enter the world. Aphrodite's attendants, Peitho, the Charites, and the Horae, adorn Pandora with gold and jewelry. According to one myth, Aphrodite aided Hippomenes, a noble youth who wished to marry Atalanta, a maiden who was renowned throughout the land for her beauty, but who refused to marry any man unless he could outrun her in a footrace.
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The Oschophoria () were a set of ancient Greek festival rites held in Athens during the month Pyanepsion (autumn) in honor of Dionysus, the god of the vine. The festival may have had both agricultural and initiatory functions.O. Pilz, “The Performative Aspect of Greek Ritual: The Case of the Athenian Oschophoria,” in M. Haysom and J. Wallensten (eds.), Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece: Papers Presented at a Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17–19 April 2008 (Stockholm: 2011), 151-67. Amidst much singing of special songs, two young men dressed in women's clothes would bear branches with grape-clusters attached (ὠσχοί) from Dionysus to the sanctuary of Athena Skiras, and a footrace followed in which select ephebes competed.
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He escaped the vehicle on foot and fired shots at the pursuing officers. Knowles was shot in the foot during his escape and Officer Jerry Key was injured when Knowles stolen car crashed into his patrol car. A chaotic footrace ensued, with Knowles pursued by dogs, law enforcement officers from several agencies, and helicopters. Knowles was finally cornered on November 17 by 27-year-old former Vietnam War Veteran and hospital maintenance worker David Clark, an armed civilian with a shotgun several miles (kilometers) from the focused area of the search, who escorted Knowles to Joe and Becky Stonecypher's nearby house where Becky Stonecypher made a phone call to the police and was handcuffed by Henry County Investigators Paul Robbins and Billy Payne.
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Within one year of retirement from professional rugby, Browne competed in and completed the Marathon des Sables, also known as 'The Toughest Footrace on Earth'. The 31st edition of the cult, multi day ultra marathon was staged in the Moroccan Sahara desert, over 6 days and 257kms. All participants must carry everything they need to survive for the duration of the race from the start, apart from water which is supplied by the race organisers at the start of each stage and at the various checkpoints throughout the day. During the 2016 edition in which Browne competed, Stage distances were as follows - Stage 1 - 37km Stage 2 - 40.2 kms Stage 3 - 36.2 Stage 4 - 84.4km Stage 5 - 42.2km Stage 6 - 17km Browne lost 9kgs over the 6 day race.
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He has placed second in the Badwater Ultramarathon twice (2004, 2005), to Dean Karnazes (2004: 27:30:20; finished second by 8 minutes) and Scott Jurek (2005: 26:33:00; finished second by 1:57). His 2005 time is the ninth best time ever in the history of the race. The Badwater Ultramarathon is a 135-mile (217 km) ultramarathon through Death Valley in mid-July, starting at Badwater Basin, the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, 282 feet below sea level, and finishing 8300 feet up Mount Whitney. With a cumulative vertical ascent of 13,000 ft (4000 m) and a cumulative descent of 4,700 ft (1400 m), and temperatures reaching 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius), it is considered by some people to be the most difficult footrace in the world.
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On the second Sunday of June, the town serves as the ending point for the annual running of the Dipsea Race, the second-oldest footrace in the U.S. The California Road Club holds its Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb, one of the oldest bicycle races in the West, in early fall. Since 2002, the race has been held on the third Saturday of the month, with about 400 bicyclists competing in the road race from Stinson to the head of Bolinas Lagoon and on to the West summit of Mount Tamalpais at Rock Spring. "Cuisine on the Green" is a yearly event held in the town's central park, the Village Green, each May. It features local restaurants and merchants selling a wide variety of foods, trinkets, clothing, art, and novelty items at different booths.
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Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling has been summarised by a previous participant as "twenty young men chasing a cheese off a cliff and tumbling 200 yards to the bottom, where they are scraped up by paramedics and packed off to hospital".Quoted in This quotation was reported in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper of 13 November 2008, in an amusingly titled article 'Return to Edam'. The same article reports one Scottish competitor prodding another in the ribs at the top of the hill, quizzing him if his "travel insurance cover[s] this"? The Australian author, Sam Vincent, "questions his sanity" as he is "crouched on the summit of a diabolical slope", alongside thirteen other competitors whilst they are "awaiting the call to start what is surely the world's most dangerous footrace".
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According to legend, it was Heracles who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years. The myth continues that after Heracles completed his twelve labours, he built the Olympic Stadium as an honour to Zeus. Following its completion, he walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion" (, Latin: stadium, "stage"), which later became a unit of distance. The most widely accepted inception date for the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at Olympia, listing the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in 776 BC. The Ancient Games featured running events, a pentathlon (consisting of a jumping event, discus and javelin throws, a foot race, and wrestling), boxing, wrestling, pankration, and equestrian events.
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She has won the 2003 Marseille Marathon (2:37:52 hours), the 2006 Rome City Marathon (2:25:44 hours) and 2006 Bay to Breakers footrace (39:09), and finished second at the 2002 Wachau Marathon (2:34:40 hours), the 2004 Italian Marathon (2:32:24) and the New York City Marathon (2:26:05 hours).marathoninfo When winning the Rome City Marathon she set a national record in the distance, breaking the 2:27:05 mark set by Tatyana Polovinskaya in 1988.UKR Record Progressions - Road She also finished tenth at the 2004 Nagoya Marathon (2:32:55 hours) and eleventh at the 2005 New York City Marathon (2:29:34 hours). She participated, but finished lowly, at the 1998 and 1999 World Cross Country Championships.
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First aired September 15, 2009 Before arriving on the Biggest Loser Ranch, the contestants are given a challenge: a footrace along the last mile of the Biggest Loser Marathon from Season 7. The winner would receive immunity for him(her)self and the person s/he would choose as his or her partner. Daniel Wright is brought to the race separate from the other contestants and introduced as a surprise to them. Daniel wins the race, Allen came in 2nd, Amanda came in 3rd, Rebecca 4th, Dina and Rudy both came in 5/6th, Abby came in 7th, Antoine 8th, Liz 9th Alexandra in 10th, Júlio 11th, Danny 12th, Sean 13th, Shay came in 14th, Coach MO 15th and Tracey came in 16th even though she would have been fourth or third but she ran out of energy so she collapsed.
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In 1993, the Eels finished eleventh after a promising start and then in 1994 under new coach Ron Hilditch, twelfth. 1995 proved the Eels worst season since 1960, with the club finishing second last with only three wins in first grade, last in reserve grade and last in the club championship. Players from this era included current Hull Kingston Rovers coach Justin Morgan, injury-plagued Country Origin representative centre David Woods, Lee Oudenryn (who beat Martin Offiah in a half-time footrace in Great Britain’s 1992 tour match with ParramattaDavid Middleton (ed.), Rugby League 1992-93, Iron Bark Press, 1993) and former Australian representative Paul Dunn. Other players of this era who would go on to play with other clubs included utility back Chris Lawler (who went to the Gold Coast Chargers), Garen Casey (Penrith Panthers) and Scott Mahon (North Queensland Cowboys).
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An attacking midfielder and playmaker, Sayer is adept at finding quality forward passes and likes to combine with others for quick passing moves rather than carrying the ball too often. While Sayer is an excellent athlete, her style draws more on her technical range, vision and creativity and she would prefer to play an incisive pass or use one touch passing combinations to beat a player – rather than looking to rely on speed in a footrace. In the front third she is an increasingly unpredictable and dangerous attacker as she adds more variety to her attacking style – while she is naturally inclined to look for a clever through pass or combination play to attack the opponent's penalty box, she is equally capable of scoring from range on either foot and is demonstrating this more and more with some eye- catching long distance goals at club and international level.
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That same year she entered the Comrades for the first time as an official participant, even though the Pretoria to Cape Town run had left her in poor shape for the race, but dropped out toward the end when she realized she would finish outside the maximum allowed time of 11 hours. In 1976 she ran from Germiston to Cape Town (about the same distance), beating her previous time by more than three days, and in 1977 she ran from Messina, on South Africa's northern border, to Johannesburg. She became famous as the first woman to run across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York City. Her route, run in 1978 as a 53-year-old grandmother, took her 2871 miles and 69 days, 2hours and 40 minutes. According to the Guinness Book of Records this record still stands, although there is a claim by Lorna Michael (age 34) in 1993, of 64 days as part of the Trans-America Footrace in 1993.seejohnrun.
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H. R. Marsden statue at the South end of the Meanwood Valley Trail Signpost on the Meanwood Valley Trail (Section 3) Footbridge over Meanwood Beck, Section 5 Woods in Section 6 Seven Arches Aqueduct, Section 8 Slabbering Baby well, section 9 Sign at Breary Marsh at the North end of the Meanwood Valley Trail The Meanwood Valley Trail is a waymarked footpath and the title of an annual (March/April) footrace that takes place on parts of the trail in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It runs for a distance of from the statue of (former Leeds mayor) Henry Rowland Marsden, 1878, on Woodhouse Moor, close to the University of Leeds, through Headingley, Meanwood and Adel to Breary Marsh, Golden Acre Park, where it meets the Leeds Country Way. For most of its route (to King Lane) it is the official Leeds link to the Dales Way. Along the way are signs giving information about the local wildlife.
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