Saturday 31 March 2012

Mizuki Noguchi and Olympic Athletics Marathon

Mizuki Noguchi was born on July 3, 1978. She is a Japanese professional long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon event. She is an Olympic champion over the distance and set two world records in 2005. Initially starting out as a track and cross country athlete, her first major success was becoming the Asian cross country champion at age 21. She soon switched to road running, however, focusing on the half marathon.
She won the individual and team silver medals at the 1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and won a second team silver with a fourth place finish at the same competition in 2000. A switch to the marathon event demonstrated her talents further: she won the Nagoya and Osaka Women's Marathons, and took the silver medal in the marathon at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. Her good form continued and she became the Olympic champion in the marathon at the 2004 Athens Olympics. 
She won the Berlin Marathon the following year, setting world records at 25 km and 30 km along the way, and finishing with a personal best of 2:19:12 a new Asian record for the distance. The 25K world record was beaten by Mary Keitany of Kenya in 2010, which ran the distance in 1:19:53 hours. Prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Noguchi had set the second fastest time in the world for the previous year. However, she was ruled out of all competitions after tests revealed that she had fatigue and a muscular back problem. 
She missed the Olympics and the whole of the 2009 and 2010 seasons as a result. She returned in November 2011 with a fifth place finish at the Zevenheuvelenloop. She tried to gain a spot on the 2012 Olympic team, but her run of 2:25:33 hours left her in sixth at the Nagoya Marathon. Now for Olympic 2012, Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets are being sold at Sport Ticket Exchange. Sport Ticket Exchange offers you all sorts of Olympic Tickets including Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets at very cheap prices.



Wednesday 28 March 2012

Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai and Olympics Athletics Marathon



Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai was born on October 12, 1984. He is a long distance runner from Kenya, who specializes in marathons. He is the sixth fastest man ever over the 42.195 km distance.
Initially running in half marathons, he made his debut over the full distance in 2007 and won his first race later that year at the Amsterdam Marathon. He was fourth at both the 2008 and 2009 London Marathons, but managed to reach the podium at the 2009 World Championships, claiming the silver medal. His 2010 racing saw him finish as runner-up twice at the London and New York City Marathons. At the 2011 London Marathon he won on his fourth attempt with a course record and personal best time of 2:04:40.
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Monday 26 March 2012

Cardiac Health in Olympic Athletics Marathon


   A study published in 1996 found that the risk of having a fatal heart attack during, or in the period 24 hours after a marathon, was approximately 1 in 50,000 over an athlete's racing career which the authors characterized as an "extremely small" risk. The paper went on to say that since the risk was so small, cardiac screening programs for marathons were not warranted. However, this study was not an attempt to assess the overall benefit or risk to cardiac health of marathon running.
  In 2006, a study of 60 non-elite marathon participants tested runners for certain proteins which indicate heart damage or dysfunction after they had completed the marathon, and gave them ultrasound scans before and after the race. The study revealed that, in that sample of 60 people, runners who had done less than 35 miles per week of training before the race were most likely to show some heart damage or dysfunction, while runners who had done more than 45 miles per week of training beforehand showed few or no heart problems.
  According to a study presented in 2010, running a marathon can result in decreased function of more than half the segments in the heart's main pumping chamber, but other parts of the heart will take over. Full recovery is reached within three months or less. The fitter the runner the less the effect. Now for Olympic 2012, Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets are being sold at Sport Ticket Exchange. Sport Ticket Exchange offers you all sorts of Olympic Tickets including Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets at very cheap prices.

Friday 23 March 2012

Chen Rong and Olympic Athletics marathon


Chen Rong was born on 18 May 1988 in Hebei. She is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. She represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Her first major victory in the marathon came in 2007, when she won at the Beijing International Marathon, setting a personal best time of 2:27:05 she won the Xiamen International Marathon in 2009 with a time of 2:29:52. Chen took her first win at the Dalian Marathon in 2010, completing the distance in 2:30:09. She was the runner-up at the Beijing Marathon later that year, making it a Chinese 1–2 with race winner Wang Jiali.
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Monday 19 March 2012

Xiamen International Marathon and Olympic Athletics Marathon

Since 2003, Xiamen International Marathon has been held annually for nine consecutive years. It is deemed as IAAF Gold Label Road Race for consecutively four years. Every January, the first medal of marathon race around the world is awarded here. The race has become a golden name card, showing its splendor to the whole world.
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Saturday 17 March 2012

Niagara Falls International Marathon and Olympic Athletics Marathon


The Niagara Falls International Marathon celebrated its inaugural running in 1974. The race was known as the Skylon Marathon. Beginning during the first wave of the North American running boom, it quickly became a favorite as it was, and still is, the only marathon in the world that starts in one country and finishes in another… a destination marathon that crosses an international border, providing the runners with an experience of a lifetime.
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Wednesday 14 March 2012

Accra International Marathon and Olympic Athletics Marathon


The Accra International Marathon is an annual marathon event held in Accra, the capital of Ghana. As well as the full marathon, it also stages a half marathon. The race starts in the beach town of Pram pram, continues through the port city of Tema before finishing at the popular La Pleasure Beach Hotel. Many international runners also join to participate. The 2010 race will be staged on 26 September and will be the fourth Accra International Marathon to be held.
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Monday 12 March 2012

Athletics Marathon (Glycogen and "the wall")


Carbohydrates that a person eats are converted by the liver and muscles into glycogen for storage. Glycogen burns rapidly to provide quick energy. Runners can store about 8 MJ or 2,000 kcal worth of glycogen in their bodies, enough for about 30 km/18–20 miles of running.
 Many runners report that running becomes noticeably more difficult at that point. When glycogen runs low, the body must then obtain energy by burning stored fat, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue and is said to "hit the wall". The aim of training for the marathon, according to many coaches, is to maximize the limited glycogen available so that the fatigue of the "wall" is not as dramatic. This is accomplished in part by utilizing a higher percentage of energy from burned fat even during the early phase of the race, thus conserving glycogen.
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Wednesday 7 March 2012

After an Athletics Marathon Race


Marathon participation may result in various medical, musculoskeletal, and dermatological complaints. Delayed onset muscle soreness(DOMS) is a common condition affecting runners during the first week following a marathon. Various types of mild exercise or massagehave been recommended to alleviate pain secondary to DOMS. Dermatological issues frequently include "jogger's nipple", "jogger's toe", and blisters.
The immune system is reportedly suppressed for a short time. Changes to the blood chemistry may lead physicians to mistakenly diagnose heart malfunction.
After long training runs and the marathon itself, consuming carbohydrates to replace glycogen stores and protein to aid muscle recovery is commonly recommended. In addition, soaking the lower half of the body for 20 minutes or so in cold or ice water may force blood through the leg muscles to speed recovery. Now for Olympic 2012,Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets are being sold at Sport Ticket Exchange. Sport Ticket Exchange offers you all sorts of Olympic Tickets including Olympic Athletics Marathon Tickets at very cheap prices.

Tuesday 6 March 2012

Training for Athletics Marathon


The long run is an important element in marathon training. Recreational runners commonly try to reach a maximum of about 20 miles in their longest weekly run and a total of about 40 miles a week when training for the marathon, but wide variability exists in practice and in recommendations. More experienced marathoners may run a longer distance during the week. Greater weekly training mileages can offer greater results in terms of distance and endurance, but also carry a greater risk of training injury. Most male elite marathon runners will have weekly mileages of over 100 miles.
Many training programs last a minimum of five or six months, with a gradual increase in the distance run and finally, for recovery, a period oftapering in the weeks preceding the race. For beginners wishing to merely finish a marathon, a minimum of four months of running four days a week is recommended. Many trainers recommend a weekly increase in mileage of no more than 10%. It is also often advised to maintain a consistent running program for six weeks or so before beginning a marathon training program, to allow the body to adapt to the new stresses. The marathon training program itself would suppose variation between hard and easy training, with a periodization of the general plan.
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