Running
There is an annual marathon in the Island together with a number of half marathons and shorter runs organised annually. The Easter running festival is also popular with its cross-country course.
Athletes also compete within and for Hampshire County.
Charity running events are also well represented.
Hash House Harriers, Hash House Harriets, and Guernsey Full Moon HHH events add to the fun of the sport.
Mike Meinke completed the 156 mile Marathon des Sables across the Sahara in 2013.
Read more about this topic: Sport In Guernsey
Famous quotes containing the word running:
“...give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 6:38.
“He’s like an express train running through a tunnel—one shriek, sparks, smoke and gone.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“A young person is a person with nothing to learn
One who already knows that ice does not chill and fire does not burn . . .
It knows it can spend six hours in the sun on its first
day at the beach without ending up a skinless beet,
And it knows it can walk barefoot through the barn
without running a nail in its feet. . . .
Meanwhile psychologists grow rich
Writing that the young are ones’ should not
undermine the self-confidence of which.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)