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Abu Dhabi Adnoc marathon

Abu Dhabi Marathon: “I think people cannot wait to run”

Mark Lomas November 23, 2021

For most runners, aside from those intrepid zealots chasing ultra-distances, the marathon represents the pinnacle of their sport. On Friday November 26 2021, the ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon returns to give entrants in the UAE capital an opportunity to reach their own milestones by completing 42 kilometers.  It is the third incarnation of the Abu Dhabi Marathon and after a two-year, Covid-enforced wait, the 2021 edition promises a new, faster route that is focused around

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ultra

Why we’re obsessed with ultramarathons — despite the danger

Devinder Bains October 11, 2021

On May 22 this year, 21 of the 172 runners taking part in the Gansu Ultramarathon died from hypothermia and eight others were hospitalized. The race, organized by the local government in Jingtai county in the Chinese province, was a 100km trail run through the high-altitude and exposed mountainous terrain of the Yellow River Stone Forest.  The Chinese government has since banned ultra races, and have held 27 race officials accountable for the deaths that

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ultramarathon

An ultramarathon a day: ‘I thought I’d just go a little bit further’

Mark Lomas November 22, 2020

For most people the Dubai Fitness Challenge has meant making simple changes to their daily exercise routine, maybe by upping their daily step count or working out for a little longer. But for Ghani Souleymane, it has been a little more gruelling. Since the DFC began on October 30, Souleymane has run 45km every day. Note that: Every. Day.  After being inspired by the 2018 exploits of Marcus Smith, who ran a marathon a day

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marathon at home

More than 700 runners are doing a “Marathon at Home” this weekend

Anna Pukas April 9, 2020

When running races started being cancelled all over the place, it left a lot of amateur athletes with no outlet for all the weeks and months of training they had invested. Then Fuad Naser, founder of the 5:30 Run Club in Dubai, had a brainwave. In a meeting with the sportswear company ASICS Middle East, he mentioned that he had heard of people running long distances on their balconies and around their apartments. Could they

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Dubai marathon bedroom

This Dubai woman ran a marathon in her bedroom 

Ann Marie McQueen April 2, 2020

As the doors slammed on Liliosa Mercader‘s plans to run a Spartan race as part of Covid-19 isolation measures, the 39-year-old housemaid made a new plan. “I felt so sorry,” she says. “So I decided that on the same date I would do my own race.”  There is a 400m running track and a playground with monkey bars in her neighborhood, which would have been perfect for training. But then the playground closed.  So the mother-of-two from the

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