Rod Miller

With summer right around the corner the Marathon and Race Circuits have kicked into full effect. All across America there are tons of Marathons, Half-Marathons and other race events you can participate in.  We decided to do something fun and pull together a listing of Marathon events spanning from Maine to California, Hawaii to Alaska and all the in betweens.  For the laughaul trucker driving from Maine to San Diego California it takes approximately 3,327 Miles.  We have pulled a combination of Marathons across the US that if you were to run all of them you could literally have run across the whole continuous United States.  Through the course of this Trek you would touch 22 states and it would take you 127 days if you were to run continuously 26.2 miles every day of the week.  Starting this weekend May 14th it would take you until Sept 17th to complete the 3,327 miles. In the Average Marathon there is an attendance of 35,000 participants and doing these 127 races that would equate to a total of 116.5 Million Miles run in these races during the course of the summer.  Adding all that up that is enough mileage to run around the Earth 4700 times.  For all of the runners out there image if you were to run a consistent relay race each person taking a 26.2 Mile leg of the race it would take 950 people to run their own Marathon to complete a full rotation around the Earth over the 2 1/2 years.   If the average Person was to run 3 Marathons a year it would take them 42 years to run across the United States. If you were to run 9.65 Miles each day over the course of 1 year you would successfully have run across the whole continuous US.  Sometimes it may be difficult to continuously motivate ourselves to get out there and run everyday but if you put your efforts in terms of running across America and plot your destinations each day it may make your running experience that much more enjoyable. There are a bunch of cool sites out there that can help you plot your journey as well as many people who have already completed this trek.   Run Across the US  

6/12/2011	Mama Rose’s Estes Park Marathon	Estes Park, CO
6/12/2011	Lake Placid Marathon	Lake Placid, NY
6/12/2011	St. Joe River Marathon	St. Maries, ID
6/12/2011	Swan Lake Marathon	Viborg, SD
6/18/2011	Grandma’s Marathon	Duluth, MN
6/18/2011	ConocoPhillips Mayor’s Marathon	Anchorage, AK
6/19/2011	Vancouver USA Marathon	Vancouver, WA
6/25/2011	Keyes Peak Trail Marathon	Florence, WI
6/25/2011	Pacific Crest Marathon	Sunriver, OR
6/25/2011	Rock ‘n’ Roll Seattle Marathon	Seattle, WA
6/25/2011	Run Charlevoix Marathon	Charlevoix, MI
6/25/2011	Running With The Devil Marathon	Boulder City, NV
6/26/2011	1/2 Sauer 1/2 Kraut Marathon	Philadelphia, PA
6/26/2011	UCC Coffee Kona Marathon	Kailua-Kona, HI
7/2/2011	Leadville Trail Marathon	Leadville, CO
7/2/2011	Stars and Stripes Marathon	Beaverton, OR
7/3/2011	Freedom Marathon	Gresham, OR
7/4/2011	Foot Traffic Foot Traffic Flat Marathon	Portland, OR
7/9/2011	Running Fit Dances With Dirt Devil’s Lake	Baraboo, WI
7/9/2011	Grandfather Mountain Marathon	Boone, NC
7/10/2011	Mad Marathon	Waitsfield, VT
7/10/2011	Missoula Marathon	Missoula, MT
7/16/2011	Make It By Midnight Marathon	Macon, GA
7/16/2011	University of Okoboji Marathon	Okoboji, IA
7/24/2011	Carrollton Education Foundation Carrollton Festival of Races	Carrollton, MI
7/24/2011	Light at the End of the Tunnel Marathon	North Bend, WA
7/24/2011	The Madison Marathon	Ennis, MT
7/29/2011	Somerville Road Runners Around the Lake Marathon	Wakefield, MA
7/30/2011	Southeast Road Runners Frank Maier Marathon	Juneau, AK
7/30/2011	Grand Island Trail Marathon	Munising, MI
7/30/2011	King Salmon Marathon	Cordova, AK
7/31/2011	Bearfest	Wrangell, AK
7/31/2011	The San Francisco Marathon	San Francisco, CA
8/6/2011	Eagle Creek Trail Full/Half Marathon and 15K/5K	Indianapolis, IN
8/6/2011	Grizzly Marathon	Choteau, MT
8/7/2011	The Center Haulin’ Aspen Trail Marathon	Bend, OR
8/13/2011	Crater Lake Marathon	Klamath Falls, OR
8/13/2011	Extraterrestrial Full Moon Midnight Marathon	Rachel, NV
8/13/2011	Paavo Nurmi Marathon (USA)	Hurley, WI
8/20/2011	Fallsburg Marathon and Half Marathon	Lowell, MI
8/20/2011	Newpark Town Center Resort Hotel Park City Marathon	Park City, UT
8/20/2011	Green River Chamber of Commerce Run With the Horses Marathon	Green River, WY
8/21/2011	Drake Well Marathon	Titusville, PA
8/21/2011	Humpy’s Classic Marathon	Anchorage, AK
8/21/2011	LEADING LADIES’ MARATHON	Spearfish, SD
8/21/2011	Pikes Peak Marathon	Manitou Springs, CO
8/25/2011	Self-Transcendence Marathon	Nyack, NY
8/27/2011	Aspen Backcountry Marathon	Aspen, CO
8/27/2011	Eisenbahn Marathon	West Bend, WI
8/27/2011	Mesa Falls Marathon	Ashton, ID
8/27/2011	North Country Trail Run	Wellston, MI
8/28/2011	The Santa Rosa Marathon	Santa Rosa, CA
8/28/2011	Timmy’s Challenge Marathon	Cairo, WV

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