Marathon

Restrictions will start coming into effect Friday and Saturday on several key roads ahead of the Athens Marathon on Sunday when much of the city center will be closed to traffic.

When Zozo Christodoulou arrived at the Panathenaic Stadium one morning in 1974, the symbolic weight of what she was about to do had not yet dawned on her. "I didn't want to prove anything. I just wanted to run," she says. But she had already accomplished one first that day by being a Greek woman at the starting line of the Athens Marathon.

The biggest running event in the country will already be introduced with a major fair at the Gospodarsko razstavišče fairgrounds staring on 24 October, while young runners will open the course on Saturday morning.

Today athletes from 5 continents will run on the streets of Sofia. This will happen in one of the oldest marathons in Europe, which has a 34-year history. The marathon route will block many streets in Sofia. This year, a record number of participants will take part in the Sofia Marathon - 3000. It is expected that about 1/3 of them will be foreigners.

BRUSSELS - Joining the EU is "a matter of endurance and not a competition," Serbian PM Ana Brnabic told the Euractiv.com portal in an interview.

"For Serbia, joining the EU is like a marathon. When you run a marathon you are not competing against anyone else but yourself. In that sense, I don't think any country should be bothered by who is the front or second runner," she said.

Sign up for the Spetses Mini Marathon, which includes running and swimming events for kids and adults, as well as a stand-up paddle board race. Participation for the majority of the events is free of charge. Now in its sixth year, the annual event is expecting up to 6,000 athletes and 12,000 visitors on the Saronic island.

The Authentic Athens Marathon, will be held on Sunday November 12, 2017 along the route from Marathonas to Athens, offering the opportunity to all runners participating to make their dream come true.

Turkish ultramarathon runner Şirin Mine Kılıç is a strong and challenging woman. I met her on the last day of the 2013 Runfire Cappadocia Ultra Marathon.

My GPS's batteries had run out and I had left behind the spare ones, thinking I couldn't carry them on the last day with me.

Turkey will for the first time participate in the Mount Everest Marathon on May 29, Sports for Everyone Federation head Yasin Bölükbaşı said on May 8, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.      
  
Ece Vahapoğlu, a Turkish author and journalist, will represent the country.        

The cautious have likened it to an attempt to send a manned mission to Mars. However, Yannis Pitsiladis, professor of sport and exercise science at the University of Brighton in the UK, is aiming to achieve it by 2019.