The Great North Run & The Half Marathon Boom
The half marathon might be the best thing to happen to running in years. It's long enough to be a real challenge, short enough that you don't need to rearrange your entire life to train for it — and it's exploding in popularity. In this episode, we dig into why the 13.1 has become the distance of choice for so many runners, using the Great North Run as our jumping-off point.
We cover:
The Great North Run — what makes it one of the best half marathons in the world
Why the Olympics still doesn't have a half marathon, and whether that needs to change
The best half marathon shoes right now, and…
The skinny
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