The Blue Cross Broad Street Run, that takes place in Philadelphia on the first Sunday of May since the early 1980s, is the largest (40,689 runners in 2012 ) ten-mile road race in the United States. The race starts at T.S. Park, in the Logan neighborhood, at the athletic fields at Central High School and goes south along Broad Street. Runners pass Temple University, Ci...

A “Tough Mudder” is billed by the sponsors of these extreme sports undertakings as “Probably the Toughest Event on the Planet”. Courses are generally 10 to 12 miles of obstacles that challenge even the fittest athletes. The tracks include crawls through mud pits, leaps into icy plunges, smoky hay bale climbs, log carries, ropes courses and any ...

The Two Oceans Marathon is a 56 km / 35 mile ultramarathon and 21km half-marathon held annually in Cape Town, South Africa on the Saturday of the Easter weekend. Self-proclaimed as "the world's most beautiful marathon", the race is run against a backdrop of spectacular scenery through the Cape Peninsula. The race starts in Newlands, and follows a more or less circular...

Vasaloppet is an annual long distance (90 km) cross-country ski race (ski marathon) held on the first Sunday of March in northwestern Dalarna, Sweden between the village of Sälen and town of Mora. It is the oldest, the longest, and in popular consideration the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. In the 80th race, held on 7 March 2004, some 15,500 skiers ...

The Walt Disney World Marathon is an annual marathon and weekend race series held every January in Orlando, Florida held by runDisney, a race series and division of Disney Sports Enterprises. The marathon weekend currently (as of 2006) includes a 5K, a 10K, a Half Marathon, a Marathon, and the Goofy and Dopey Challenges (the Goofy Challenge is to run the half and full...