{"id":22502,"date":"2016-04-24T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22502"},"modified":"2016-04-24T00:59:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:59:16","slug":"marathon-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/marathon-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Facts, Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bsur.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stunning vistas on the California coast are afforded those participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/big-sur-marathon.html\">Big Sur Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some fascinating U.S. facts from Running USA &#8211; runningusa.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10% women |\u00a090% men &#8212; \u00a0ran marathons in 1980<\/li>\n<li>43% women | 57% men &#8212; ran marathons in 2013<\/li>\n<li>57% women | 43% men &#8212; finished marathons in 2014<\/li>\n<li>143,000 finishers in 1980 | 541,00o finishers in 2013 (all time high)<\/li>\n<li>5K run has 8.3 million (44%) finishers in 2014<\/li>\n<li>Marathon has 550,600 (2%) \u00a0finishers in 2014<\/li>\n<li>The majority of runners are age 25-44 years<\/li>\n<li>Annual running events = 80,000 | 1,100 marathons | 28,000 &#8211; 5K runs |<\/li>\n<li>Marathon median time =\u00a04:44:18 women | \u00a04:19:27 men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Marathons in California\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LONG BEACH &#8212; Blast the Beach, Blaze the Path, Cruise the Coast, etc. If you&#8217;re in Long Beach you can sign up (active.com) and get that 26.2 mile run most any Saturday or Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>FREMONT &#8212; Western Pacific (Trail) Marathon April 30 |\u00a0 brazenracing.com<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO &#8212; Pony Express Marathon starts at Capitol Mall \u00a0May 1 | ponyexpressmarathon.com<\/li>\n<li>WEOTT &#8212; Avenue of the Giants Marathon May 1 | theave.org<\/li>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH &#8212; OC Marathon May 1 | ocmarathon.com<\/li>\n<li>STINSON BEACH &#8212; Muir Woods Marathon May 14 | raceroster.com<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ &#8212; Capitola Surfer&#8217;s Path Marathon May 22 |\u00a0surferspathmarathon.com<\/li>\n<li>OJAI &#8212; Mountains 2 Beach Marathon May 29 | mountains2beachmarathon.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning vistas on the California coast are afforded those participating in the Big Sur Marathon. Here are some fascinating U.S. facts from Running USA &#8211; runningusa.org 10% women |\u00a090% men &#8212; \u00a0ran marathons in 1980 43% women | 57% men &#8212; ran marathons in 2013 57% women | 43% men &#8212; finished marathons in 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}