We know you have seen our Houston Marathon Veterans sporting their official shirts around town and during the Chevron Houston Marathon each year. These amazing guys and gals are runners who have successfully finished 10 or more Houston marathons! They organize and put together the Pace Teams each year and successfully guide 1000s of runners to their goal
For those who regularly make the trek out to run at Memorial Park on Saturday mornings, there was a bonus this weekend. Beginning at 7:00 am on Saturday, June 30th, the annual Chevron Houston Marathon Run for a Reason Kick-Off Party took place in Memorial Park. An event conducted in the past on Thursday evenings
Check out the Local Running Club scene in Houston on the HMC site or Houston Area Road Runners Association site. You can meet fellow runners and a new social group or two. You'll receive coaching and motivation from fellow runners. You can give motivation and inspiration to other runners. Running will become part of your weekly routine. Making
National Running Day is not just about the sport of running, but the lifestyle. On June 6, runners all across the country united to celebrate the sport by proclaiming all of the reasons why “I RUN…”! Whether you run to fundraise for a charity, to improve your health, to achieve faster times, to eat more sweets,
1. Raise awareness. Running for a charity is not all about fundraising – it also helps get the charity’s name out there and highlights the important work they do. 2. Honor a loved one. 3. Give back to the community. 4. Support a great cause. Run for a charity that is close to your heart. With 61
The Houston Marathon Committee is "going green," and making history in the process. For the first time in the U.S., we have pursued a green certification for two separate sporting events in a single weekend – U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and Chevron Houston Marathon. During race weekend, we collected 21.55 tons of waste and diverted an impressive 79% of collected
The Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon are the nation's premier winter races, attracting runners from all 50 U.S. states and more than 20 foreign countries. Most recently, the Chevron Houston Marathon was featured as one of the top 10 marathons to nail your goal by Runner's World's Magazine. While there are a number of great reasons to take
The 40th anniversary Chevron Houston Marathon was an exciting, action-packed weekend - one that will go down in the record books making history in more ways than one. Below is our wrap-up of the milestone weekend, and the first of our new "13 fast facts" series - a monthly feature posted on the 13th of each month as we count
It was an Ethiopian sweep of the medal stands – and the record books – at the Chevron Houston Marathon and the Aramco Houston Half Marathon on Sunday, as all four winners erased the course records. "Today was the perfect way to culminate the most significant road racing weekend ever in Houston," stated Wade Morehead,
It is often said that the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon are all about 1-2-3. But for many athletes on the streets of Houston today, it was about something else. For instance, Linda Somers Smith of Arroyo Grande, CA, wanted to run under 2:40. Linda Somers Smith was a 1996 Olympian. That’s 16 years ago. She
