New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. , best known as simply New Balance, is a footwear manufacturer based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company. Eschewing expensive advertising campaigns, it has, nevertheless, grown to be one of the largest makers of sports footwear in the world.
The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The 42.195-kilometre (26.219 mi) race was established in 2005 and has been run annually ever since.