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| Adirondack Marathon |
| | News From: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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Adirondack Marathon To Feature New Relay (Post Star)
The Adirondack Marathon set for September 23 in Schroon Lake will feature a new four-person marathon relay with up to fifty teams allowed to compete.
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| Bataan Memorial Death March |
| | News From: Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Bataan Death March: Keeping The Spirit Alive (Current Argus)
The Bataan Death March memorialized the story of thousands of American heroes by running, walking through the White Sands Missile Range
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| | News From: Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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Bataan Memorial Death March Expects 6,786 Memorial Marchers (Las Cruces Bulletin)
The seventieth anniversary of the World War II prisoner-of-war atrocity that killed thousands will be marked by thousands of people marching 14.2 or 26.2 miles to honor their memories.
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| Boston Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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Kathrine Switzer Speaks On Women's Running At Boston And Beyond (The Morning Call)
Kathrine Switzer is known as an icon for women's running as she broke the gender barrier at the Boston Marathon in 1967 despite being tackled by race organizer Jack Semple
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| | News From: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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45 Years Ago, An Enraged Boston Marathon Race Director Attacked A Female Runner (Deadspin.com)
The 2012 Boston Marathon will mark the fortieth anniversary of women being allowed to officially run the race. The first women to finish the 26.2 miles actually did so in 1967. Five years before it was 'legal."
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| Chicago Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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Flashback - Chicago Marathon 1999 (Race Results Weekly)
Khalid Khannouchi first set the marathon world record at the LaSalle Banks Chicago Marathon in 1999. Your editor was there to cover the race, and we're reprinting my story for you today as a way to honor Khannouchi after he announced his retirement yesterday.
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| City of Los Angeles Marathon (L.A. Marathon) |
| | News From: Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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'Women 99 And Over':These Marathon Results Were Unbelievable (Los Angeles Times)
The Los Angeles Marathon had listed three women in the age group of '99 and Over' before correcting the results into an invalid age group category. The early unofficial results definitely caused some readers and runners to do a double take.
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| Eisenhower Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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Eisenhower Marathon In Abilene To Benefit Needy Families (Marion County Record)
The annual Eisenhower Marathon will kick off at 7 am on April 14 with an out and back course that travels through Brown's Park
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| Fallen 4 Marathon |
| | News From: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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Fallen 4 Marathon Capping Race At 800 Runners (White Court Star)
The Fallen 4 Marathon has put a cap of eight-hundred runners for the highway portion of races which are set to occur on June 3.
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| Fargo Marathon |
| | News From: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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Fargo Marathon Route To Snake Into Moorhead (Crookston Times)
The 2012 Fargo Marathon route will now wind it's way into Moorhead, Minnesota after the lack of spring flooding along the Red River.
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| Guam Marathon |
| | News From: Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Top-Finisher Karus Complets First-Ever Marathon (Pacific Daily News)
John Karus won the forty-first Guam Marathon with a time of 3 hours 7 minutes and 12 seconds
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| Knoxville Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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Knoxville Marathon Runs To A New High (KnoxNews.com)
Race director, Jason Altman, said that the Knoxville Marathon will hold a record number of participants with over seven-thousand, two-hundred. The 2011 race hosted just over sixty-five hundred.
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| Lansing Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| | Human Interest Story |
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New Marathon Planned For Lansing In April (Argus Press)
The Lansing Marathon will kick off on April 22 and race organizers are expecting to attract two-thousand participants.
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| Las Vegas International Marathon |
| | News From: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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Las Vegas Marathon Unveils Major Course Change As Part Of Improvement Plan (Las Vegas Review Journal)
The 2011 Rock N Roll version of the Las Vegas marathon was one of the largest debacles in marathon running as half-marathon runners and marathon runners "merged" and slammed into one another. Race organizers are changing the course for 2012 and hoping to fix the course and finish line chaos.
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| Lincoln Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Experienced Runner Excited To See The Newcomers Finish Lincoln Marathon (Journal Star)
The Lincoln Marathon kicks off on May 6 and runner Mark Patton will compete in the marathon and hopes to witness those who will be completing their first marathon.
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| London Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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Flashback - London Marathon 2002 (Race Results Weekly)
With Khalid Khannouchi making his retirement official yesterday, your editor thought a great way to honor his career was to reprint Mark Butler's story on the 2002 Flora London Marathon, where Khannouchi beat both Paul Tergat and Haile Gebreslassie and broke his own world record, about 20 minutes after Paula Radcliffe had broken the women's world record for an all-women's race.
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| | News From: Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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Marathon Runner Hopes To Clean Up In London (Chicago Tribune)
Urige Buta has spent his winter months training in a mile long service tunnel built for sewage pipes. Buta wound up in Norway after fleeing Ambo due to political unrest
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| NJ Ultra Festival Marathon |
| | News From: Sunday, March 25, 2012 |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Morriston Ultra-Marathon Runners Takes Striding To The Extreme (Star-Ledger)
Jessi Kennedy will compete in her sixth New Jersey Trail Series Marathon and has learned something about herself after running one-hundred mile races.
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| Oakland Running Festival |
| | News From: Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Oakland Marathon Gets Leg Up On Weather, Mood (San Francisco Chronicle)
Anna Bretan won the women's division of the Oakland Marathon with a time of 2 hours 57 minutes and 33 seconds.
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| | News From: Saturday, March 24, 2012 |
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Street Closures For Sunday's Oakland Marathon (Piedmont Patch)
The Oakland Running Festival takes place on Sunday March 25 with the marathon starting at 7:30 am near Snow Park. More than eight-thousand runners are expected to participate in one of the races.
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| | News From: Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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More Than 8,500 Runners Expected For Sunday's Oakland Running Festival (Inside Bay Area)
The city streets of Oakland California will see more than eighty-five hundred runners on Sunday as they participate in the Oakland Running Festival
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| OC Marathon |
| | News From: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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OC Marathon On Pace For Record Entries (Health Care Global)
The OC Marathon is expecting to top the record of fifteen-thousand runners from 2011 with it's current registrations running thirty-percent ahead of last year at this same time.
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| Ocean Drive Marathon |
| | News From: Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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Ocean Drive Marathon Attracts 1,400 Runners (Shore News Today)
The fourteenth annual Ocean Drive Marathon hosted nearly fourteen-hundred runners beating the old record of nine-hundred and four.
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| | News From: Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Brian Waters Wins Ocean Drive Marathon (Press of Atlantic City)
Brian Waters made a late race charge to secure the Ocean Drive Marathon with a time of 2 hours 49 minutes and 14 seconds.
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| | News From: Saturday, March 24, 2012 |
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Ocean Drive Marathon Will Cause Traffic Delays, Detours (Press Of Atlantic City)
Route 109 and Ocean Drive will be filled with runners on Sunday morning and hopefully very few motorists as the fourteenth annual Ocean Drive Marathon gets underway starting at 8:30 am.
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| | News From: Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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Ocean Drive Marathon Planned March 25 (Shore News Today)
This Sunday the Ocean Drive Marathon and 10 mile race returns to Cape May County.
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| Odds And Ends |
| | News From: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Marathoner Khannouchi Retires After Foot Injury (Wall Street Journal)
Former marathon world-record holder Khalid Khannouchi has announced his retirement from road racing due to chronic foot injuries.
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| | News From: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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Get Set For The Tel Aviv Marathon (Israel21c.org)
The Tel Aviv Marathon kicks off this Friday with more than twenty-five thousand runners expected to take part in Israel's largest race
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Norwegian Marathon Man Buta Looks For European Glory In Zurich (European-Athletics.org)
Urige Buta has set his marathon sights on a top twelve placing at the London Olympic Games and has a full schedule of racing up to and beyond the games.
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| | News From: Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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Kosgei Set To Impress In Marahton, Seeks Personal Best In Hannover (Athletics Africa)
Reuben Kosgei will run the Hannover Marathon on May 6 and hope to improve on his personal best of 2 hours 11 minutes and 22 seconds.
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