However, her half-marathon debut on Tyneside on 1 October did not go according to plan.
Spartan Races are timed events at distances that range from a 5K to a half-marathon.
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He'll be in the field along with American Dathan Ritzenhein, the 2009 worlds half-marathon bronze medalist.
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Pavey will step up to half-marathon in the Great North Run, which takes place on 1 October.
Runners will be offered spots in next year's race or in the New York City half-marathon in March.
The Great North Run is the world's largest half-marathon event, with 50, 000 entries.
The Great North Run is the world's most popular half-marathon road-running event, with more than 47, 000 competitors of all abilities.
Berhanu won the 2004 event in a time of 59.37, which was then the fastest half-marathon performance on British soil.
That's the unusual racing scenario for Bernard Lagat, who will make his half-marathon debut in the NYC Half on Sunday.
Lel, the world half-marathon champion, triumphed after breaking the will of Rop in an exciting finish in Manhattan's Central Park.
The half-marathon attracts about 54, 000 runners from all over the world to the North East for the run on 16 September.
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His blog that night complained about the cross-country course's hills but promised to begin training for a half-marathon the next day.
Now in May, she plans to run in her fourth half-marathon and is training to run a full marathon next year.
In Oshkosh, Wisconsin, runners will head out this weekend for a half-marathon.
So why not start with a 10K race instead of the half-marathon?
Then, one day when they were running a half-marathon together, Phil suffered an aneurism and was rushed to the hospital in a coma.
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Whitehead, who was born with no legs below the knee, is the record holder in the 200m, half-marathon and marathon for double amputees.
During his suspension Stevens plans to run the Bath half-marathon for charity and take up Brazilian jujitsu in an effort to maintain his fitness.
Goucher finished 56 seconds clear in one hour, six minutes and 57 seconds to set the year's fastest half-marathon and the eighth quickest in history.
Organizers of the half-marathon and marathon in Austin, Texas, for example, have been providing runners with clear plastic bags for their belongings for almost a decade.
Richmond's half-marathon sold out Friday for the first time ever, and Randolph said that next Sunday's would be the most crowded marathon in the event's 35-year history.
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The highlight of this half-marathon is when the race enters the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and runners lap the famed oval before exiting and heading for the finish line.
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Fagan recently won the Boston Half-Marathon in the US in an impressive 62 minutes and 21 seconds and looks to be rounding into form after an injury-affected period.
After running my first half-marathon I was hobbled for six months with achilles tendonitis that required a trip to a sports medicine doctor and multiple physical therapy sessions.
But I really like that I know I can run a mile - the idea of a half-marathon isn't so out of the realm of possibility these days.
Then just four months later he finished a half-marathon.
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Kirwa, finishing among a group of half-marathon participants, beat his time of a year ago with an unofficial mark of 2:13:37, becoming the first back-to-back male winner since Abel Gisemba in 1993-94.
Next weekend's Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and Half-Marathon, organized as a tribute to the victims of the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people at that city's federal building, only accepts gear in the clear plastic bag it provides runners.
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