Marathon mania
By Zheng Xin | China Daily | Updated: 2014-10-06 08:25
Fitness, fad and finance combine as participation skyrockets
In its 34th year, the Beijing International Marathon has drawn more than 60,000 hopeful participants in a registration period of only two weeks.
Yet the country's oldest race is capped at 30,000 runners, a number filled in less than 13 hours after registration opened last year.
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