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The Marathon Project Gives Elite Athletes A Lifeline During The Pandemic Dec 17, 2020 David Monti (c) 2020 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (16-Dec) -- Against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is generating over 200,000 new COVID-19 cases every day in the United States alone, 54 men and 44 women will mask-up and travel carefully to Chandler, Ariz., to compete this Sunday at The Marathon Project, a one-off elite-only marathon which will be held on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Run on a flat, 6.86-kilometer course, the race offers a lifeline to North America's elite maratho...

RRW: The Marathon Project Gives Elite Athletes A Lifeline During The Pandemic By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2020 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (16-Dec) — Against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is generating over 200,000 new COVID-19 cases every day in the United States alone, 54 men and 44 women will mask-up and travel carefully to Chandler, Ariz., to compete this Sunday at The Marathon Project, a one-off elite-only marathon which will be held on the Gila River Indian Reservation.  Run on a flat, 6.86-kilometer course, the race offers a lifeline to North America’s elit...

Richard HeathcoteGetty Images When COVID-19 postponed or canceled all of the year’s major marathons in the U.S., two running industry insiders—Ben Rosario, the coach of NAZ Elite in Flagstaff, and Josh Cox, an agent to many marathoners, including several on the NAZ team—brainstormed a way for some of the country’s fastest athletes to race. The result is The Marathon Project, an elite-only 26.2 that takes place at 10 a.m. ET on Sunday, December 20, on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Chandler, Arizona. Want the latest pro running news? The course is on a flat, two-mile stretch of...

RRW: World Athletics Gave Member Federations Flexibility On New Shoe Rules By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2020 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (11-Dec) — On July 28 World Athletics announced amended regulations governing competition shoes.  The much-anticipated rule change was “designed to give certainty to athletes preparing for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to preserve the integrity of elite competition,” the world governing body for athletics said in a statement.  The rules, which were to take place immediately, limited the stack height (essentially the thicknes...