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19-531: The competition was established in 1978 as the Philadelphia Distance Run and was founded by Gene H. Martenson, and was held under this name until 2009. From 2010 when Competitor Group Inc. bought the rights to the race, until 2020 it was part of the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series of running competitions. It has subsequently been presented by a consortium of local runners. The race quickly became

38-456: A Philadelphia running team aimed at providing LGBTQ athletes with safe and supportive running spaces looked at ways to make the PDR more inclusive. Téllez and Lez Run began working with local race directors to include the nonbinary division starting in 2018. “When we imagined an elite nonbinary division, we imagined it would be years and years in the future. We were struggling to just see this change at

57-656: A corporate headquarters, Advance did operate a press bureau in Washington, D.C., the Newhouse News Service (NNS). Opened in 1961, NNS served as a national news bureau for all Advance portfolio publications until it closed in late 2008 as a cost-cutting measure due to the 2007–2008 financial crisis . As of November 2019, Advance was ranked as the 221st largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes . As of August 2021,

76-499: A top level race with international competition: four-time Olympic champion Lasse Virén of Finland won at the second edition and he was followed by further foreign Olympic medalists in New Zealand's Rod Dixon and Michael Musyoki of Kenya. Joan Samuelson took consecutive victories in the women's race in 1983 to 1985, which included world record times of 1:09:14 hours and 1:08:34 hours in 1983 and 1984. The latter mark stood as

95-572: The American record for over twenty years and was broken by Deena Kastor at the 2005 edition of the Philadelphia Distance Run, with her winning time of 1:07:53 hours. The men's race has also seen historically fast times: Michael Musyoki's winning time of 1:01:36 hours in 1982 was a world record and in 1985 Mark Curp ran a world record time of 1:00:55 hours. On top of this, Dionicio Cerón 's winning time of 1:00:46 hours in 1990

114-574: The IRONMAN Group 's Competitor Group , part of Advance Publications . The series is known for lining race routes with live bands, cheerleaders and themed water stations. There are 9 events in the Rock 'n' Roll Series spanning 3 countries. In 2012, Competitor Group organized its first marathon outside North America when it acquired the organizing rights for the Madrid (Spain) Marathon. In 2008,

133-506: The Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing. It further found that the foundation was being operated "in many instances for

152-637: The Newhouse family, in which Sam Newhouse bought a controlling interest in 1922. On August 25, 2018, Advance/Newhouse ("A/N") notified Charter Communications that it intended to establish a credit facility collateralized by a portion of Advance/Newhouse Common Units in Charter Communications Holdings, LLC. That same month, Condé Nast CEO Robert A. Sauerberg Jr. announced his five-year strategy to generate $ 600 million in new revenue from new revenue streams while driving costs out of

171-731: The PDR policy. In 2022, the Blue Cross Broad Street Run and the Philadelphia Marathon, plus five of the six World Major Marathons including the New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, Chicago Marathon, London Marathon, Berlin Marathon, adopted the PDR's policy. Key:     Course record Rock %27n%27 Roll Marathon Series The Rock 'n' Roll Running Series is a collection of road running events owned and operated by

190-493: The Philadelphia Distance Run made history as the first U.S. road race to establish a nonbinary gender division up to the elite level. Race organizer Andy Kucer said "we're looking at every angle of this race from an inclusivity standpoint, and making people feel included is so important to the character of the race." In 2021, Kucer and staff at Students Run Philly Style, including C.C. Téllez , Associate Director of LGBTQ Programming for Students Run Philly Style and founder of Lez Run,

209-469: The benefit of the for-profit,” and that the charity's role in hosting the races had been overstated. As a result, the race had benefited improperly from hundreds of thousands of dollars in public subsidies and grants. In announcing the results of the audit, Competitor said it would return $ 190,500 to San Diego County and $ 152,544 to the city of San Diego , spend the remaining foundation funds on health and wellness causes, file amended tax returns, and dissolve

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228-678: The business. In March 2020, the company acquired The Ironman Group, a mass participation sports platform including the Ironman Triathlons and Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race, from the Wanda Sports Group . For most of its history, Advance had no official headquarters; most publications listed the Advance offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood as its nominal headquarters. While it did not have

247-466: The company partners with charities to create a “a veneer for recruiting free labor” but the race events are for-profit and do not serve a charitable purpose under the law. The company asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit, but this was denied, allowing the suit to go forward. Advance Publications Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. ,

266-594: The foundation. Competitor Group made the final payments in October 2009. Altogether the company returned $ 344,176 to the city and county. In September 2014 Saint Louis University School of Law professor Yvette Joy Liebesman sued Competitor Group, alleging a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the handling of volunteers for the October 2012 race in St. Louis. The class-action lawsuit claims

285-595: The group owns Condé Nast , which includes the magazines Vogue , The New Yorker , and Wired , Turnitin , The Ironman Group, Advance Local, American City Business Journals , Stage Entertainment , Leaders Group, and the Seattle -based digital agency Pop, Inc., and is a large shareholder in Reddit . The company holds an 8.16% ownership in media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery , carried over from its 31% stake in predecessor Discovery, Inc. Advance also owns

304-551: The half marathon. The 2020 and 2021 editions of the race were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic . In 2021 three running community leaders announced the return of the PDR with a focus on equity and inclusion. The three community leaders and new PDR race organizers were Ross Martinson, owner of Philadelphia Runner; Ryan Callahan, President of Runhouse and Co-Founder of the Philly 10K; and Andy Kucer, Executive Director of Students Run Philly Style. Nonbinary Division In 2021,

323-424: The local level,” Téllez told Runner’s World . Kucer and the race organizers announced that the 2021 Philadelphia Distance Run would become the first road race in the U.S. to establish a nonbinary division all the way up to the elite level, with equal prize money awarded to winners of the male, female, and nonbinary categories. Following the 2021 Philadelphia Distance Run, major races across the U.S. and world modeled

342-555: The sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals , MLive Media Group , and Condé Nast , and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (30% ownership), and Warner Bros. Discovery (8% ownership). The company is named after the Staten Island Advance , the first newspaper owned by

361-474: Was recognised by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians as their world best mark, as per their stricter criteria. The current course records were set in 2011 and both are the fastest times ever recorded for the half marathon on American soil: Mathew Kisorio ran the fourth fastest time ever (58:46 minutes) while Kim Smith 's women's record of 1:07:11 hours made her the seventh fastest female ever in

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