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Kraig Lofquist accomplished a goal recently that sent him running around the world. He completed the Australian Outback Marathon on July 27, which marked the seventh continent on which he’d run a marathon. When the 55-year-old former Educational Service Unit No. 9 administrator thinks about the accomplishment, it’s not the actual marathons that stand out. “It’s the unbelievable people I meet,” he said. “I’ve had the opportunity to meet some of the most incredible people and make lifelong friends.”Read More

A huge shout out to our MTT Team Member, Christine Suter who was the first woman to cross the Okangan race - an Ultra 520K! Despite having recently overcome a stress fracture in her foot, Suter went out from Aug. 3 through 5 and was the top woman in the eight-competitor field, completing the three-day challenge in a combined 29 hours, 46 minutes and 23 seconds (29:46:23). The runner-up, Nancy Fedeyko, was nearly 90 minutes back. Read More

An Experienced and Trusted Brand - Marathon Tours & Travel was founded back in 1979 and now has four decades of experience to look back on. It's easily the most experienced marathon and runner-based travel agency in all of North America, having established a huge network of trusted contacts with airlines, travel organizers, and hotels all across the globe. A widely trusted company, Marathon Tours & Travel has staff with more than a century of combined travel experience and has received nothing but praise and rave reviews from past travelers. For impeccable marathon travel experiences on all seven continents, Marathon Tours & Travel is the company to choose.Read More

When people hear that Elise Walton has run half-marathons in China, Greenland and South Africa, they want to know which was the hardest. Was it the seemingly endless steps on the Great Wall of China? The polar ice sheets in Greenland? Or the sand, hills, armed rangers and wild animals in South Africa? “I can’t pick,” Walton says. “Each one had completely unique challenges. The only thing they had in common was being spectacular.”Read More

Every runner has a bucket list race, but if you want to complete the Abbott World Marathon Majors, you have six: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City. And you’re not alone in this goal: Eliud Kipchoge just said he wants to run all six races before he retires, and you’ve probably seen lots of non-elites posting pics of their Majors medals, too. The number of Abbott World Marathon Majors finishers increased by 1,400 percent since 2015.Read More

She tried soccer one year in her hometown of St. Louis in the late 1970s, but that comment — you run funny — embarrassed her beyond belief. She internalized it and told no one, not even her parents. She never played organized sports again. “I lived with it literally my whole life,” she says. “I carried that story — I’m not an athlete.” Forty years later, she carries a different story. On March 18, now Karen Hohertz-Jacobs, crossed the finish line of a marathon held on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica. That race completed her quest to run a marathon on all seven continents, a journey she started less than a decade ago.Read More

“As I’ve gotten older, I realize how fear has held me back,” Holas says. “Now I know if I can run a marathon, there’s nothing I can’t do. If I’m afraid or don’t want to do it, I do it. That’s how I continue to grow.”Read More

Nick Pacha, Superintendent of Parks for the City of Washington, said running is something he has only recently gotten into. “I did kind of every sport in high school and played football in college,” he said. After college, Pacha picked up running as a new hobby and eventually worked his way up to run his first marathon in Chicago in 2006. He ran the Chicago Marathon again in 2007 and 2010 before finding a company, Marathon Tours and Travel, that did destination marathons. The founders of the company are also the founders of the Seven Continents Club, an exclusive group for people who have the goal to run marathons or half-marathons on all seven continents.Read More

After 6 hours and four minutes slogging through mud on a hilly, barren landscape, Karen Hohertz crossed the finish line to complete her marathon in Antarctica. Those final steps, taken with tears in her eyes and pride in her heart, marked the completion of her goal to run 26.2 miles on every continent. It was a challenge she took on less than a decade ago.Read More

There is a saying in Israel. "Haifa is where you go to work. Tel Aviv is where you go to play. And Jerusalem is where you go to pray." After my most recent trip to Israel, a trip organized by Marathon Tours & Travel to allow runners to race a full or half marathon through the streets of Jerusalem, I would like to add to the saying above these words: Jerusalem is where you go to run a race of a lifetime! Read More