Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu IG@endurancemom2030 January 22, 2022 ABBOTT WORLD MARATHON MAJORS AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS We know many sports with world championship races for age groups such as Kona Ironman World Championship, Cycling Road World Championships, or World Athletics Race Walking Championship. But we never had a Marathon World Championship for master athletes especially. Abbott World Major Marathons (AbbottWMM) started to respond to this need for 40+ age Master Marathoners globally. We now have a big excitement to challenge ourselves with our global runner age groupers and build new conn ..read more

Photo by Burst Images Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu April 13, 2021 It was about 5-6 years ago that I really wanted to get better at running but had no idea how. I was simply a recreational runner who tried to run, take pictures during runs and races. In fact, was having so much fun that I was even taken to the sweeper bus with several marathon runners during the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in 2014. We were simply very slow to complete the marathon on time before the traffic opens up to public. I sure did not have a runner body either, but it was fun the whole time. I did not care about PR ..read more

Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu April 1, 2021 When the marathon community heard about the Abbott World Major Marathons 2021 calendar, many were caught by surprise. Half of them expressed unhappiness about the dates, while others accepted it due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, some didn’t care. At the end of the day, runners are now faced with making their own tough choices, priorities, and plans if they want to run a marathon as a hobby or physically challenge themselves. Combine this with being an international runner, life can get very messy pretty quickly, especially when cons ..read more

Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu March 9, 2021 Boston Athletic Association’s recent announcement of the 70,000 virtual Boston Marathon  on October 11, 2021, all around the world caused mixed feelings, especially for the hard trained marathoners. Some of these marathoners have been dreaming about the real Boston experience for years, trying to shave minutes or even seconds from their personal records to enable them to not only qualify but also have extra cushion to secure a place. They work like everybody else, train harder than many, sacrifice many more things, just to feel the joy of their endur ..read more

Photo by Matthew Henry via Burst Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu March 9, 2021 It’s often the dream of every runner to eventually feel that they’re running faster. With that in mind, the title of today’s blog, and previous statement seems to be two dichotomous objects. How would running slower in longer runs help you become faster? There are so many articles written on this topic yet we still hear runners are struggling to do it. Nevertheless, there’s an explanation behind it. Running slower helps lower your risk of getting injured. Thus, enabling you to run more miles, in turn, helping your body bec ..read more

Top 20 Endurance Authors and Stories in 2021. Endurance can be defined as the ability to withstand hardship or adversity or in a more hopeful and bright sense, it simply means the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity. In the world of running, it’s the capacity to run for miles on end with little time spent on stopping. It’s an activity that seems natural when it comes to humans and for good reason. Since millions of years ago, humans have steadily sowed the seeds to become one of the world’s prolific endurance runners. We started to develop these amazing skills sinc ..read more

Photo by Holger Grünwald from Burst Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu Feb 22, 2021 During this day and age, it’s often easy to take some liberties for granted. We are used to having it that we have never realized how difficult life is without it. Take the freedom to run for example. People nowadays, especially women, can just decide to run right then and there. No one will scold or reprimand them for joining prestigious marathon events nor do you find any events discriminating against women from joining. But that wasn’t always the case. We owe it to the amazing women who came before us to fight t ..read more

Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon. A dream to qualify for many marathoners all over the world, though challenging to accomplish. The race started 125 years ago with only 15 runners. In the 1960s, the Boston Marathon’s field size grew from 197 to 1969. In 1971 standards reduced the field size to 1067. Over the years, Boston Marathon qualifications continue to adjust based on field size. In 2012 they introduced “rolling admission,” a new system allowing the fastest qualifiers to register first. 2012 also became the first year that 3,228 marathoners were not accepted due ..read more

Gulsum Ozturk Rustemoglu Nov 17, 2020 @endurancemom2030 THE GLOVE... THE REVEL MT.CHARLESTON FASTEST DOWNHILL MARATHON You just don't want to be around me the day before a marathon, especially, if it is a BQ performance expected race. Am practically a different person, feeling very depressed, confused, curious, upset, scared literally up until the race starts. It was the same feeling at the bus stop to Mt. Charleston on Saturday the 14th. I had intentionally stayed at a different hotel from my family since I need total isolation the night before a marathon. I spent the entire bus ride to the ..read more

If there is one thing you can count on in life is that things change. I mean one day your friends don't want to run with you since you are a new slow runner, and 5 years later you are a Guinness World Record Holder in the fastest marathon skipping category. That's Volkan Yildiz for you. Back in 2012, Volkan was a non-active father to a delightful little girl. One day, while playing at the park, and his daughter's ball got stuck on a tree, Volkan, 31 years old at the time, was staring at the tree and the ball trying to figure out how he would climb up there with his large belly. It was on that ..read more