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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/262-vs-131-131-reasons-to-run-a-half-marathon/">26.2 vs. 13.1: 13.1 Reasons to run a half-marathon</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 4, 2007 at 05:35 PM by Bridget Sullivan</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Let’s get this one simple fact straight:&nbsp; you do not have to run a marathon to be considered a “real runner.” Anyone who pounds their feet on the pavement in repetitious monotony, automatically knows how many miles are in a 5K, and doesn’t laugh when someone bellows out the word “fartlek,” is a REAL runner.&nbsp; But since the running boom officially “boomed” a second time with Oprah’s 26.2 feat in 1994, not to mention her triumphal landing on the cover of Runner’s World magazine, more and more runners continue to spin their feet at the distance.&nbsp; Dubbed “everyman’s Everest’ by former professional runner and current Runner’s World executive editor, Amby Burfoot, the marathon of the twenty-first century attracts everyone from the taut and toned twenty-year-olds to the Ben &amp; Jerry fifty-year-olds.&nbsp; Gone are the days of the first…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/262-vs-131-131-reasons-to-run-a-half-marathon/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/262-vs-131-131-reasons-to-run-a-half-marathon/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/262-vs-131-131-reasons-to-run-a-half-marathon/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/262-vs-131-131-reasons-to-run-a-half-marathon/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/training-programs/">training-programs</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a><br /><br /> </P>