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A club that travels the world to run in marathons is about to leave its footprint on another country \u2013 The Bahamas.<\/p>\n
Marathon Globetrotters will be holding its annual meeting and club reunion at the British Colonial Hilton on January 17, 2015, a day before Marathon Bahamas takes place.<\/p>\n
Marathon Globetrotters is a running club, which was founded in February by five runners from the United States and one from Sweden.<\/p>\n
Since then, the club has grown to have 146 members from all over the world.\u00a0 Its members share an interest in traveling to different countries and running marathons.<\/p>\n
The club has more members from the United States than any other country, so a race in North America was chosen for the club\u2019s first annual meeting.<\/p>\n
More than 30 members will be traveling to New Providence to run in Marathon Bahamas.\u00a0 For most, this will be their first marathon in The Bahamas, allowing them to add a new country to their resumes.<\/p>\n
To join the club as a provisional member, a runner needs to complete marathons in at least five different countries.<\/p>\n
Only official races of at least 26.2 miles are counted. After running marathons in 10 countries, they become full members.<\/p>\n
Three of the club\u2019s members have run marathons in more than 50 counties, led by Brent Weigner of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with 79 countries.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Anders Forselius of Sweden, one of the club\u2019s founders, set a world record by running marathons in 33 countries in a span of 365 days.<\/p>\n
Marathon Globetrotters plans to hold future meetings on different continents.<\/p>\n
The club is looking at races in Europe for its next meeting.<\/p>\n
Caption: Rich Holmes and Anders Forselius at the Bratislava Marathon. Mr. Forselius ran his 33rd country in one year.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/span>Rich Holmes is shown wearing a club singlet at a marathon in Greenland.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A club that travels the world to run in marathons is about to leave its footprint on another country \u2013 The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":91070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,7],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-91069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}