The Great North Run weekend is one of my favorite of the year. The City Games on Saturday, followed by a huge half marathon on Sunday is a great way to celebrate running in Northern England.
This year, Mo Farah and Mary Keitany will be leading 57,000 of their closest friends. The course is fast and pretty flat. In past years, Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie and Mo Farah have battled through the streets of Gateshead and NewCastle.
This year, Brendan Foster, founder of the Great Run Company, and 1976 Olympic bronze medalist at 10,000 meters, will be the race starter.
We will be watching it via streaming video very early from California, so good luck to all 57,000 running the Great North Run!
It’s that time of the year again Great North Run!!! Looking to Sunday half marathon..!! #onemomile
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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