Hints and tips:
...Did I mention I’m training for the London marathon? Then came the warning signs....
...It is, according to historian Bernard Deacon, “a kind of halfway house between English county and Celtic nation”....
...By the end of the day, barely a few dozen Serbs and a few hundred Albanians had voted in all four counties. With no participation threshold, the counties all elected Albanian mayors and assemblies....
...Previous members include Roger Bannister, the first person to break the four-minute-mile, and Chris Brasher, who paced Bannister to that record in 1954 and went on to co-found the London Marathon....
...Glick comes with a wealth of experience in sport, having been chief executive of Derby County, and chief commercial officer of City Football Group — the parent of Manchester City....
...These include music or food festivals, car shows, marathons, parades, sporting events and concerts....
...In more provincial surroundings, John Stocker from Oxfordshire, England, ran a record 337 miles in 81 hours at the Suffolk Backyard Ultra in June, completing a 4.167 mile lap of the county’s Knettishall...
...A racism scandal at Yorkshire County Cricket Club rumbled on....
...Republicans attempted to throw out more than 120,000 votes that had already been cast at close to a dozen drive-through polling sites in Texas’s Democratic-leaning Harris County....
...A few weeks ago Gary Thompson, head of trading at Vontobel Quality Growth, said he was rising at 4am to run a half marathon before work in preparation for the (now cancelled) North Pole Marathon....
...People who are accustomed to late nights in the office and marathon travel schedules are now spending unusual amounts of time with that unfamiliar group of people known as their families....
...In the meantime, Christine Hurley, Monroe County’s assistant administrator, says that 2013 calculations based on evacuation capacity in the event of tropical storms left the county with just 1,970 new-home...
...As the Democrats prepare for a five-month marathon primary process to decide their candidate, the party is more united than ever on the need to beat Donald Trump....
...On the company’s website, Mr Maggs says the name came from a Kenyan running team that competed in marathons in his area in the 1990s....
...Watching Mrs May give another marathon performance in the House of Commons this week, coolly absorbing the political blows raining down from her own MPs, was a graphic reminder of the Westminster adage:...
...in an electoral marathon of European, parliamentary and presidential votes over the next 18 months....
...But then I clicked play to resume Ultra Marathon Man, a running memoir by Dean Karnazes. Immediately I heard, “Chapter 12: Frozen Stiff — A Marathon at the South Pole”....
...The wild plant is now rarely seen in American mountain forests, but its farmed variant is a mainstay for 140 families in Marathon county, Wisconsin....
...Ask strategist Russell Napier and he will compare it to a large hole in the ground at Nendrum on Mahee Island in County Down. For many years, a sign was posted next to it saying “Pit of Uncertain Use”....
...A San Francisco half marathon has been cancelled this weekend amid concerns about air quality, and hundreds of schools and businesses are closed....
...“I learnt my trade in magistrates’ courts, and county courts and coroners’ courts,” he once told an audience of Durham university law students, “in courts of quarter sessions and before High Court masters...
...Mr Xi, meanwhile, began his much more successful party career in 1982, as deputy head of a poor county in Hebei province....
...Island communities such as Big Pine Key and Marathon attract wealthy holiday-home buyers with an appetite for water sports including snorkelling and scuba diving....
...Spaceport is looking at more terrestrial income too, with a roster of events that includes drone racing, car racing and an ultra-marathon relay. They even offer weddings....
...The New York-born security guard first came to the FBI’s attention in May 2013 when coworkers at a county courthouse in Florida reported that he had made a series of inflammatory and contradictory remarks...
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