Marathon Headlines

• Boston Marathon organizers add 10k race POSTED: Mar 24, 3:27p ET | UPDATED: Mar 24, 3:28p ET By Associated Press The organizers of the Boston Marathon plan to hold a 10-kilometer road race this summer through city neighborhoods. The new event schedule for June 26 will be limited to 5,000 runners.
• Nine Japanese women added to London field POSTED: Mar 23, 7:51a ET | UPDATED: Mar 23, 7:51a ET By Associated Press Nine Japanese women have been added to the field for next month's London marathon after the Nagoya marathon was called off following the earthquake and tsunami.
• Hall gets a pass...for now POSTED: Mar 21, 7:30a ET | UPDATED: Mar 21, 12:29p ET By Joe Battaglia, Universal Sports After finishing in 21st place in Sunday's New York City Half-Marathon, you might be asking is it time for Ryan Hall to press the panic button as he preps for Boston? While he didn't inspire confidence, there are reasons to give him benefit of the doubt.
• Rotich can celebrate victory in time of sadness POSTED: Mar 20, 3:10p ET | UPDATED: Mar 21, 12:28p ET By Joe Battaglia, Universal Sports Kenya's Caroline Rotich spent her teen years in Sendai, Japan, the epicenter of devastation from the earthquake and tsunami nine days ago. While her heart was heavy, her feet were fleet as she set a course-record in winning the New York City Half-Marathon.
• Barefoot in stretch, Dado wins 3rd Rome marathon POSTED: Mar 20, 2:36p ET | UPDATED: Mar 20, 2:36p ET By Associated Press Ethiopia's Firehiwot Dado won her third consecutive Rome marathon Sunday and paid tribute to legendary countryman Abebe Bikila by running the final stretch barefoot.
• Geneti sets LA Marathon record of 2:06:35 POSTED: Mar 20, 2:07p ET | UPDATED: Mar 20, 4:41p ET By Associated Press Markos Geneti set a Los Angeles Marathon record in winning in his debut at 26.2 miles Sunday, while Buzunesh Deba won the women's event to give Ethiopia a sweep.
• Project Run-Away: Farah, Rupp, Goucher shine in NYC Half POSTED: Mar 20, 1:45p ET | UPDATED: Mar 20, 3:11p ET By Joe Battaglia, Universal Sports In the days leading up to the race, Great Britain's Mo Farah, and Americans Galen Rupp and Kara Goucher spoke with guarded optimism. But the Oregon Project teammates were the dominant force in Sunday's New York City Half-Marathon.
• Farah, Rotich win NYC half marathon POSTED: Mar 20, 9:15a ET | UPDATED: Mar 20, 1:56p ET By Associated Press

  Mo Farah of England outsprinted Gebre Gebremariam in the final 200 meters of the NYC Half-Marathon on Sunday, edging the Ethiopian by 2 seconds in a scintillating finish along Manhattan's West Side Highway.

• Gena, Dado return to defend titles in Rome POSTED: Mar 19, 11:09a ET | UPDATED: Mar 19, 11:09a ET By IAAF
• Goucher goes 'all in' with her training POSTED: Mar 19, 7:09a ET | UPDATED: Mar 19, 7:25a ET By Joe Battaglia, Universal Sports As she returned from giving birth to her son, Kara Goucher was not aggressive in training. The kid gloves have now come off and the runner we see Sunday in the New York City Half-Marathon will strongly resemble the one we saw in recent years.
• Augusto hoping to make it big in the Big Apple POSTED: Mar 19, 7:24a ET | UPDATED: Mar 19, 7:24a ET By Chris Lotsbom, Race Results Weekly Jessica Augusto is extremely excited. The petite athlete from Braga, Portugal, is in a city with more than three quarters of the population of her home nation. Making her first-ever trip to the United States, Augusto will be running the NYC Half-Marathon here this Sunday.