FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon Launches
Online Community for Participants
Blog, forums and route planner features designed
to enhance training experience
CLEVELAND (Dec. 11, 2007) – Participants in the 31st annual Rite Aid
Cleveland Marathon, Half Marathon & 10K now have the opportunity to
interact online to ask questions, share opinions and news, and plan
training routes for the May 18 event. Through a partnership with
realbuzz.com, the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon recently launched its
online community at www.clevelandmarathon.com, making it one of
the first road races in the country to do so.
The Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon's online community features forums, blogs
and route planners to help enhance the participants' training and race
preparation experience.
The blog feature is a way for runners to journal their personal running
experience in an "online diary" type format. Additionally, bloggers can use
the site's training log function to track their runs and record information
about weather, course conditions and other relevant information. Depending
on the preference of the blogger, the blogs can be either private or shared
with the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon community.
The forum feature provides an interactive online community for the Rite Aid
Cleveland Marathon events, which allows runners to share information among
themselves about the race, training, helpful advice and other event-related
questions. Runners new to the event and out-of-town runners can ask
questions and share opinions in real time.
The training route planner provides an opportunity for runners to map and
share training runs virtually, instead of having to drive the route or
guess their mileage. The service is offered free to the running community
and uses detailed interactive maps and satellite images. Runners can also
plan and save running routes for future reference. As runners save their
routes, they can also search for other routes based on zips codes and
cities in order to find running routes when they travel or visit a new
area.
The 31st annual Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon will hit the streets of
Cleveland on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 7:00 a.m., and weave runners through
historic and scenic parts of the city. There will be a 26.3 Mile Rock Party
at the finish line featuring food and live music. Those who are interested
in participating in the marathon, half marathon, 10K, wheelchair challenge,
walking divisions or kid's race, can register online at
www.clevelandmarathon.com or call 1-800-467-3826 for more information.
Realbuzz.com is the UK's most popular lifestyle and community online
networking site, aimed at individuals interested in fitness and nutrition.
Realbuzz.com is now extending its services - turn-key, branded forums,
blogs and route planners - to the US running event community, providing
easy-to-use web tools that enhance the event web site, and create a
community among the participants.
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