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A squidoo lens about marathon calendars

May 27th, 2007 Comments(0)

I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Squidoo, the new Web 2.0 plateform created by Seth Godin.

Squidoo lets it’s users create lens (Web pages) about a subject, providing information about the topic, links to other web sites, books,… Once the lens is created users, can vote for them and add comments.

It is so easy to use that I wanted to give it a try. I created my first lens.
Gess what it’s about marathon calendars.

Where will you run your next marathon ?

May 26-27th: Where can you run this week-end ?

May 26th, 2007 Comments(0)

15 races will take place during this week-end in 5 different countries.

Canada :
ING Ottawa Marathon
Saskatchewan Marathon

France :
Marathon de la Ville aux Clercs
Marathon des Blues Trotteurs
Marathon du Futuroscope

United Kingdom :
Edinburgh Marathon

Sweden :
Äventyrsmarathon

United States :
Buffalo Marathon
Coeur d’Alene Marathon
Mad City Marathon
Med City Marathon
Traverse City State Bank Bayshore Marathon
Vermont City Marathon
Wickham Park Marathon
Wyoming Marathon

Where will you run your next marathon ?

Marathon du Grand Toulouse

May 26th, 2007 Comments(0)

The creation of a new marathon is so seldom that it has to be mentioned. Next October, the first marathon in is history will be organized by the city of Toulouse (France).

Until now, among the five largest cities in France, only Paris and Lyon organized a marathon. They will now be three.

For those who don’t know Toulouse is the largest city in the south-west of France and is the capital of French aerospace industry.

The marathon du grand Toulouse will start at 9:30 at AéroConstellation to end at Sesquières. The route will lead the runners through the heart of the city and pass by the Capitole and the Cité de l’espace.

Aid stations are located every 5 k of the route that seems to be quite flat since the change of altitude between the start and the finish line is less than 18 meters.
http://www.lemarathondugrandtoulouse.com/carte_interactive.html

Seven pacemakers will be there to help runners keep a steady pace to reach their target time (between 3:00 to 4:30).

For those who aren’t ready yet for a full marathon, the organizers have also set up a four-runner team relay. The distance to run by each one goes form 6 to 15km.

I wish this brand new marathon the success it deserves!

Where will you run your next marathon ?