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History
Before the 1970's, road running was not seen as an attractive activity to partake in. Once more inclusive races were created for well known distances such as the Boston marathon and the New York City Marathon in the 1970's, road running began to gain traction in America.

Benefits
There are a variety of benefits that switching running surface from treadmill to road can provide the average person. One benefit of road running is that it provides new runners with motivation and decreases the chance for plateau. Most runners that begin to start exercising on a treadmill come to a point where it becomes a dread to continue running the same way every day on a treadmill. Running on roads provides a new experience every day that will increase motivation in runners.

Sponsorship
As with any other sport, road running has elite athletes that participate in various races year round for a career. These elite level athletes make money from different brand sponsor ships.