EVENT NEWS
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October 20, 2021
ShowcasedEvent Insights – Best Practices for Post-Event Communication: Thank-You Emails, Surveys and More
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - You’ve put a lot of time into planning the perfect event. You’ve had your ups and your downs, but the day of the event has finally come and gone. Everything went off wonderfully. You can now breathe a sigh of relief that it’s all over. Or is...
October 20, 2021
Des Moines, Iowa Announced as Newest Host of Full-Distance IRONMAN Triathlon and Will Be Designated as the IRONMAN North American Championship
DES MOINES, Iowa. / TAMPA, Fla. (October 20, 2021) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - IRONMAN announced today that Des Moines, Iowa will become the newest host of a full-distance IRONMAN® triathlon. Following the excitement built off the IRONMAN® 70.3® event in 2021, the new full-distance IRONMAN triathlon will take the place of...
October 20, 2021
Harvey Lewis Runs 354.2 Miles At Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra
After three and half days, Harvey Lewis was the last man standing. And if rules of Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra allowed him to continue, he might still be the last man running. The 45-year-old Cincinnati high school social studies teacher ran through the boundaries of human endurance this week, as...
October 20, 2021
XTERRA Worlds is a GO for Dec. 4-5 in Maui
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The XTERRA Trail Run and Off-Road Triathlon World Championship races have received the green light from Maui County to proceed as planned on December 4-5, 2021, at The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua on Maui. All participants must be vaccinated OR test negative for COVID-19 every 72 hours (12 years...
October 20, 2021
The IRONMAN Group and Madison Area Sports Commission Celebrates 20 Years With Partnership Extension To Continue Hosting IRONMAN Events In Madison, Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. / TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 20, 2021) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Celebrating 20 Years of IRONMAN Wisconsin, IRONMAN in partnership with the Madison Area Sports Commission have announced a multi-year extension for IRONMAN® and IRONMAN® 70.3® events to continue to be hosted in Madison, Wisconsin. As part of the agreement,...
October 20, 2021
GFNY Italia races Tuscany’s historic strade bianche
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - GFNY was back on Italian soil with the GFNY Championship Europe at GFNY Italia last Sunday. The main challenge of the 101 km course with 1889m of climbing and gradients up to 20% were 26 km of “strade bianche” (white gravel road). The 5 km climb to...
October 20, 2021
BMW Dallas Marathon Festival Will Be First U.S. Marathon Course To Feature SuperStarch-based Energy Pouch ‘UCAN Edge’
(DALLAS) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The UCAN Company will return this year as an official sponsor of the BMW Dallas Marathon Festival weekend, where it will debut its innovative new product UCAN Edge, the first and only SuperStarch-based energy product in a portable pouch. “Races are a wonderful opportunity to bring people...
October 20, 2021
National Champions, World Champions and Olympians Will Be Competing at The Into The Lion’s Den Powered By SRAM Women’s Race
SACRAMENTO, CA (October 20, 2021) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Into the Lion’s Den powered by SRAM announced the women’s teams racing in Sacramento, CA on October 30th. The women’s race will feature top U.S. trade teams, including L39ION of Los Angeles, Rally Pro Cycling and Twenty-24 Cycling Team, plus international powerhouse Team...
October 19, 2021
ShowcasedThe Application Window for the 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Opens Today
CHICAGO /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Today the Bank of America Chicago Marathon announced it is accepting applications for the 2022 event at chicagomarathon.com. The launch of the 2022 application continues Chicago’s return to racing and builds on the excitement seen over a week ago when 26,122 participants crossed the finish line...
October 19, 2021
World’s longest race lasts two months on one city block
It is the world’s longest certified foot race: a 4,989km run that takes participants around the same New York block 5,649 times. Thousands of people have climbed Everest — but just 49 have completed the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race, organizers say. Runners finish more than two marathons a day for...