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Reasons to Run Houston

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

2012 Chevron Houston Marathon Race Weekend Wrap-up

            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

Ethiopians break all four course records to wrap up Marathon Weekend

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,

Keflezighi; Flanagan win U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Marathon

Two of the fastest races in Olympic Marathon Trials history took place on the same day Saturday in Houston as the six men and women who will represent Team USA in London earned their way on the squad. Shalane Flanagan set an Olympic Trials record of 2:25:38 in only her second marathon, while Meb Keflezighi earned

Chevron Houston Marathon Kicks Off 40th-Anniversary Bash

More than 28,000 runners will take the streets of Houston on Sunday as the Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and El Paso Corporation 5K top off perhaps the biggest weekend of road racing ever seen in this country. "The entire racing industry has descended on Houston this weekend," said Wade Morehead, executive director

Quick Takes from Four Favorites

It’s almost the big day, and every runner in the Olympic Marathon Trials has their own perfect race-day scenario. Take a look at what four top contenders – Ryan Hall, Desiree Davila, Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan – have to say about theirs.               http://olympictrials.runnersworld.com/2012/01/12/ryan-hall-pre-race-qa/        

Friday Morning Roundtable Excerpts: Linda Somers Smith

On why she didn’t run the first Olympic Marathon Trials for women, in 1984, even though she had qualified:  “I was really focused on law school and I was hurt. Running was never my priority. Looking back on it I would probably should have just gone and stumbled through it, but it wasn't really my

Amy Hastings Media Round Table Conversation

For a few years after her career at Arizona State, 10-time All-American Amy Hastings waffled. “It seemed like no matter what I did, I couldn’t get things right,” said Hastings at a roundtable media session on Thursday. Questionable choices, bad moves, doubt and indecision; overtrained and overweight at the same time. Do I really want

Deena Kastor Press Conference

Deena Kastor wasn’t sure she would ever come back. She wasn’t even sure she would want to. A three-time Olympian and 2004 silver medalist in the marathon, Kastor was 35 when she broke her foot – it sounded like “a Popsicle stick breaking and feathering” – while running the 2008 Olympic marathon in Beijing. She