Despite an uncommon heat spell, San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 2009 was its usual hit. Typically, the race is an oddball set of nude runners, runners in costumes, etc. but there is a serious race with prizes as well, and a record set today. Now the 2009 winner of the Bay To Breakers makes a course record.

Beach To Beacon 2009 registration is already completed. Beach To Beacon on it's site already announced that it has reached the limit of 6000 online registrants for 2009 and are now closed for further registrations.

The registration is now open for the AJC Peachtree Road Race 2009 at Atlanta Track Club. It will be a huge event that will be held on July 4th.

Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Miler run announces 2009 entry information. On-line registration is already open for Cherry Blossom 10 Miler.

Beach To Beacon race organizers have outlined parking, road closings and race week events leading up to the Aug. 2 TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K.

Online registration of Beach to Beacon to begin March 15 for popular race, set for Saturday, August 2 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Zensah® (www.zensah.com), the originator of seamless compression sleeves, announces the global debut of marathon running recovery sleeves this weekend at the ING Miami Marathon. The marathon recovery sleeves can be purchased at the Zensah® booth at the ING Miami Marathon Health and Fitness Expo taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from January 25-26.

Honolulu Marathon 2007 just now announced the winners. They are Ambesse Tolosa from Ethiopia and Alevtina Biktimirova from Russia.

Chicago Marathon ended with a tragedy as one runner, Chad Schieber from Michigan died this Sunday while running the marathon. The announcement in the official site of Chicago Marathon has a message for the runners about closing the race due to excessive heat, which left one runner dead and 250 hospitalized.

Svetlana Ponomarenko is the winner of Twin Cities Marathon Women's Race and had been leading from the start.

Patrick Ivuti of Kenya and Berhane Adere of Ethiopia emerged victorious in dramatic fashion on Sunday at The 30th LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon.

Men's and Women's champions from the year 2006 are poised to defend titles at the 2007 Lasalle Bank Chicago Marathon.