Nike Women's Marathon & Half Marathon to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
14 Aug '07
4 min read
During race weekend, Nike will also offer a variety of activities at the Nike Women's Marathon Expotique. Unlike a regular marathon expo, this Expotique was designed-like the race-specifically for women, allowing runners, friends, family and San Francisco locals to celebrate women's athletics.
The Expotique opens Thursday, October 18th for local participants and Friday, October 19th for out of town participants and will be open all weekend leading up to Sunday's race.
The Expotique will offer a range of activities including meet and greets with Nike athletes, new fitness training demonstrations, seminars with health and fitness instructor professionals, foot massages, hair and make-up stylist stations, gear trial stations, and pace bracelets stations.
Participants will also be able to trial and purchase Nike Women's Marathon specific gear as well as other Nike and Nike+ product at Niketown San Francisco also located in the Union Square area.
New to this year's race is The Nike+ Women's Half Marathon, a celebration of women running together on the same day for the same cause all across the country. Offered to existing and new Nike+ members on Nikeplus.com, the virtual extension of the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco was designed to extend the event to more women then the city of San Francisco could ever hold. Nike+ members must log on and register in advance of midnight (Hawaiian time) on October 20, in order to participate.
Then, on race day, they must complete a 13.1 mile run and log their miles on Nikeplus.com by midnight (Hawaiian time) on October 28.
Leading up to the race, Nike will offer a variety of training opportunities for registered participants. Niketown locations in select cities will offer 15-week training regimens for local runners. Also, Nikeplus.com will offer training routes and reminder updates to encourage participants in the virtual and San Francisco marathons to keep up with training.
marketing@alchempro.com
