10 Interesting Running Facts

1. 15% of the USA runs.
2. .1% actually run in races annually
3.  Less than 1% of runners will complete a marathon.
4. 4.3% of marathoners will qualify for the Boston Marathon.
5. The Peachtree 10K Road Race is the largest race in the United States with over 65,000 runners annually.
6. Fauja Singh is the oldest person to complete a marathon at the young age of 101.
7. Your body uses 200 muscles per running step.
8. The fastest mile time is 3 minutes 43.13 seconds. It was achieved by two-time Olympic medalist Hicham El Guerrouj, representing Morocco in Rome on July 7, 1999.
9. While Boston gets most of the attention, the largest spectator race is the New York City Marathon which averages over 2 million spectators compared to Boston which draws around a half million spectators.  
10. During an easy run, the pressure created in the human heart could squirt blood 30 feet in the air at a speed of close to 100 mph.