Marathon Runner
Marathon runners refer to the people who take part in marathon, long distance running event. Marathon track length is about 42 – 43 KM. as it is a long distance so runners need outstanding fitness and physique to perform better in the marathon race. A marathon runner have to train as hard as he could for the better performance because running marathon is not as easy task, it has so many effects on the runners life before and after the race. So his training must be so as to bear the hardships of the race easily and must not have to bear any adverse effect after the race. Almost every marathon has its own course description and qualifying test before the participants to run, in order to estimate that whether that runner would be suitable for the race over such a large distance according to the course, and they also provide training information and training schedules for the runners who are interested to participate in the specific event. Such specific information according to the event is very helpful in understanding the requirements of that event for the marathon runner.
There are also many runners association and runners organizations which are acting as a governing bodies of certain national and international events, they also help and protects the runners issues and their legal rights, they also organize many competitions and championships to keep glory of the game and appreciate the talent and promote the new comers. In United stated track and filed association, IAAF international amateur athletic federation and AAU, American athletic association, Association of International Marathons and Distance Races AIMS and United States runners association, Boston athletic association BBA and LA marathon runners are some of the name of such governing bodies. All these governing bodies are working for male marathon runners as well as for women marathon runners. They have approximate the same standards for male and female however some distance and other limitations are different for females only like course timing and distance limit.
All these organizations have separate structure for men runners and for women runners’ issues. BBA is the oldest governing body of marathon runners in USA as the first modern marathon which was held in USA was Boston marathon so Boston marathon runners are the symbol of pride in USA, many other marathons follow the standards of Boston marathon and runners of Boston marathon are not required to give qualifying test in many other marathons. Boston marathon is held every the third Monday of April and its qualifying round is completed about four month ago so that players are given more time to train themselves for the final run. After the qualifying round Boston marathon runners list is displayed on internet and local news papers that contain name of runners who have successfully completed the course requirements. Runner’s organizations are not developing the rules and regulations but they issue many official publications in which runners hot issues are discussed, many schedules are issued, information about the diets for a marathon runners like important vitamins for marathon runners, physical fitness requirements, doctor’s suggestion, coach’s articles about certain situation are published.
Runners world half marathon is a magazine of this kind that focus all about runners and their issues. It publish many marathon complete coverage including the marathon runners picture and photos of marathon runner, reviews and news, it also publish many diet manuals and vitamin supplementation program for marathon runners, which are mostly recommended by the international governing bodies of runners, it also publish many diseases fitness problems their symptoms and remedies that often suffered by a marathon runner in his life like muscle cramping marathon runner or lungs cancer. The title of the magazine is always an image of marathon runner which may be of elite class or any immerging runner who recently made some achievement.
