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News From: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 | ||
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San Francisco Directs Nike Marathon Complaints to Sex Line
(SFGate.com) Runners complaining about the early morning noise of the Nike Women's Marathon were directed to a sex phone line instead of the actual Nike line. | ||
News From: Monday, October 21, 2013 | ||
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Nike Celebrates Female Athletes at 10th Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco
(Broadway World.com) Thirty-thousand women participated in the Nike Women's Marathon. Emily Gordon of Los Angeles won the race with a time of 2 hours 51 minutes and 44 seconds. | ||
News From: Sunday, July 15, 2012 | ||
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Why Bay Area Men Join TNT To Run In The San Francisco Nike Women's Marathon
(Digital Journal) A few male athletes join the nearly twenty-thousand women runners at the Nike Women's Marathon to help find a cure and several other reasons. | ||
News From: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 | ||
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Leah Thorvilson Wins NIKE Women's Marathon In Record Time
(UALRTrojans.com) Leah Thorvilson has already qualified for the Olympic Trials but that didn't stop her from racing and winning the Nike Women's Marathon with a course record time of 2 hours 46 minutes and 42 seconds. | ||
News From: Monday, October 18, 2010 | ||
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Spirits High, But Soaked At Nike Women's Marathon
(San Francisco Chronicle) Leah Thorvilson of Little Rock Arkansas won the Nike Women's Marathon with a time of 2 hours 46 minutes. | ||
News From: Thursday, September 2, 2010 | ||
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Leukemia And Lymphoma Society Provides Hope, Answers For Many
(The Western Edition) The Nike Women's Marathon is set for October and is just one of the many races that help to provide fundraising opportunities for runners running for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. | ||
News From: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | ||
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Nike Women's Marathon Event - Win Entry!
(San Francisco Chronicle) A discounted shopping spree and Nike running shoe demonstration are part of an opportunity to win an entry into the Nike Women's Marathon which is sold out. | ||
News From: Thursday, July 15, 2010 | ||
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Nike Women's Marathon Event
(San Francisco Chroncile) Of the thirty-seven thousand people who signed up for the Nike Women's Marathon, only twenty-thousand were accepted. Lombardi sports has two entries that will be given away. | ||
News From: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | ||
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Nike Women's Marathon Lottery Closes In One Week
(Examiner.com) Women who want to register for the Nike Women's Marathon need to do so by April, 16, 2010. The seventh running of the event takes place on October 17 one week after the Chicago Marathon | ||
News From: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | ||
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Sign Up For The Nike Women's Marathon And Marine Corps 2010
(Examiner.com) The Nike Women's Marathon is open and you have until April 16th to register for the drawing to run in the women only marathon. The Marine Corps Marathon opens at noon on April 7th and should reach it's thirty-thousand runner capacity quickly. | ||
News From: Monday, October 19, 2009 | ||
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2009 Nike Women's Marathon Results: California Runner Wins
(Examiner.com) More than twenty-thousand runners competed in the Nike Women's Marathon. Caitlin Smith of Oakland California won the marathon with a time of 2 hours 58 minutes and 52 seconds. | ||
News From: Saturday, October 17, 2009 | ||
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Runners' Heart Woes Can be Discovered Too Late
(San Francisco Chronicle) Thousands of women will be focusing on the finish line at the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco this weekend. Recent deaths in long distance runners from heart defects put under strain have some double checking their heart health. | ||
News From: Thursday, October 15, 2009 | ||
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Running Like 20000 Girls at Nike Women's Marathon
(San Francisco Chronicle) More than twenty-thousand women will run 26.2 miles this Sunday starting at 7 am in the Nike Women's Marathon. The course will pass over the Golden Gate Park and finish at Ocean Beach. | ||
News From: Monday, September 14, 2009 | ||
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Glen Ellyn Woman Readies for 9th Leukemia & Lymphoma Nike Women's Marathon
(Daily Herald) Vaughn Nesslar is preparing for the Nike Women's Marathon which is being held on October 18. The sixty-seven year old grandmother will be running in her ninth marathon and doing so a part of the Team in Training for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. | ||
News From: Friday, September 4, 2009 | ||
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Running Toward a Dream
(Appeal Democrat) The battle to regain that pre-baby body has been nearly a seven-hundred mile challenge for Shanann Amarel. She completed 659 miles in a month to earn a spot in the famed October Nike Women's Marathon. | ||
News From: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | ||
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'Spirit of giving' motivates runners
(The Wichita Eagle) More than one-hundred Wichitans are preparing for the Nike Women's marathon on October 18th in San Francisco. Many look at running with friends as a cost cutting therapy session and a great way to help others by using the race as a fundraiser. | ||
News From: Saturday, November 8, 2008 | ||
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Nike finally comes through
(City Insider) Nike, after being slammed with emails about the Nike Women's Marathon winner, has made a step to officially recognize Arien O'Connell as the official winner of the women's marathon event. She received her first place trophy in recognition of her fastest time on the course even though she did not cross the finish line first. | ||
News From: Friday, November 7, 2008 | ||
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Nike marathon runner gets leg up from Reebok
(City Insider) Arien O'Connell was the big winner after the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francico. Co-winner's were announced after it was discovered that O'Connell did not start with the elite women but had the fastest time over the 26.2 mile course. Reebok has stepped to the plate awarding her new shoes for one year and making a donation to the school where O'Connell works. | ||
News From: Thursday, October 23, 2008 | ||
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Nike fudges, recognizes fastest marathon runner as "a" winner
(San Francisco Chronicle) Marathon runner Arien O'Connell will be a winner after all from Sunday's Nike Women's Marathon. A Nike Representative called O'Connell and said that she would recieve the same award as the woman who started with the elite group 20 minutes ahead of O'Connell | ||
News From: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | ||
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At Nike Women's Marathon, fastest time didn't win
(San Francisco Chronicle) Jon Hendershott, associate editor of the Track and Field News magazine, based in Mountain View California said "That's pretty weak" regarding the decision to not award the victory to the fastest time of the day to marathon runner Arien O'Connell, a 24 year-old teacher. | ||
News From: Monday, October 20, 2008 | ||
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Thousands of Women "Run Like a Girl" at Fifth-Annual Nike Women's Marathon
(News Wire) Over twenty thousand women ran in San Francisco this weekend to raise nearly eighteen million for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This year's winner of the marathon was Nora Colligan of Austin, TX (3:06:30), and the half marathon winner was Holly Hagerman of Woodland Hills, UT (1:22:40). | ||
News From: Monday, October 22, 2007 | ||
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Runners From All Over Pound San Francisco Pavement in Nike Women's Marathon
(San Francisco Chronicle) The winner of the marathon was Lauri Thompson of Boise, Idaho (3 hours, 1 minute and 26 seconds). | ||
News From: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 | ||
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Local Woman Honors Sister in Nike Marathon
(Gateway Newspaper) Just as her sister showed strength and endurance during her fight with cancer, Kim Barrett of Moon Township honored her memory by walking 26.2 miles in the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. | ||
News From: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 | ||
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Ms. Marathon in Nike's Woman Marathon San Francisco
(The Miami Herald) Article on Honey Giller who has run several marathons and will participate in Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco. | ||
News From: Monday, March 15, 2004 | ||
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San Francisco to host Nike women's marathon in October
(SFGate.com) Twenty years after women first ran a marathon in the Olympic Games, a women's marathon will be held in San Francisco on Oct. 24. The woman who won the Olympic marathon in Los Angeles in 1984, Joan Benoit Samuelson, will be in San Francisco at that time and serve in some capacity in a race being called the Nike 26.2. | ||
News From: Sunday, March 14, 2004 | ||
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Marathon designed for women to debut in San Francisco
(SFGate.com) The Nike 26.2 Marathon, to be run Oct. 24 in San Francisco, will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first women's Olympic marathon. |