Marathon vacations give tourists the runaround: Sun, fun and shin splints? Marathons need athletic vacationers to turn a profit. Today, about one in three runners in the ING Miami Marathon will hail from.

From: Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) | Date: January 28, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Douglas Hanks

Jan. 28--Shortly after he picked up his number for today's ING Miami Marathon, Michael Cowen was already planning for the next race on his calendar.

"Right now I'm looking at Big Sur, Calif.," the 32-year-old postal worker from Massachusetts said Friday as he walked the sprawling registration expo in Miami Beach. "And there's one in Frederick, Md."

Those kinds of athletic travel plans are helping subsidize a booming marathon ...

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