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News From: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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   Discarded Garbage Bags Hinder California International Marathon Clean Up (Modesto Bee)
The weekend storm complicated the clean up strategy for race officials as discarded garbage bags worn for protection from the rain were strewn across the course and blown around area neighborhoods.


News From: Sunday, December 2, 2012
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   Americans Daniel Tapia, Alisha Williams win California International Marathon (Modesto Bee)
Daniel Tapia won the rain-soaked and wind-whipped thirtieth California International Marathon.

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   Onlookers, Runners Drenched During California International Marathon (Sacramento.cbslocal.com)
Strong winds and heavy rains were not enough to stop a record number of participants from completing the California International Marathon.


News From: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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   California International Marathon Organizers Say Rain Will Not Dampen Their Party (Capradio.org)
The weather will not be ideal for the California International Marathon's thirtieth anniversary but race organizers say that the race will go off as planned.


News From: Friday, August 24, 2012
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   Marathon's 8,000-Entry Limit Is Reached For California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
The California International Marathon filled to capacity two months earlier than in 2011. The thirtieth annual event may have triggered the rush to register.


News From: Saturday, August 11, 2012
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   California International Marathon The Latest 'Hot' Race, Almost 90 Percent Full (Stride Nation)
The California International Marathon is selling out faster each year and sold out on October 15 of last year. It's on pace to sell out by September this year.


News From: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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   California International Marathon Sees Quick Early Registration Pace (Modesto Bee)
More than three-thousand runners have registered for the December 2 California International Marathon. This years event marks the thirtieth annual event.


News From: Monday, December 5, 2011
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   Kenya's Monyenye Wins California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
Kenya's Erick Monyenye won the California International Marathon with a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 50 seconds.


News From: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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   Marathon Runners Chase Olympic Dreams At California International Marathon (KCRA.com)
A field of more than ten-thousand runners will toe the line at the California International Marathon on Sunday. Several elite runners have entered the marathon with the hope of qualifying for the Olympic Trials held in Houston Texas on January 14

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   Runners To Take Last Shot At Qualifying For Olympic Trials At California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
Jenny Hithcings missed qualifying for the Olympic Marathon trials by ten seconds back at the Eugene Marathon. She hopes to rectify the situation this weekend along with several other elite runners at the California International Marathon.


News From: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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   California International Marathon Attracts 14,000 Runners To Region (Folsom Telegraph)
The first Sunday of December kicks off the California International Marathon. The first event drew 1,600 runners and this years event will play host to ver 14,000 registered athletes.


News From: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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   California International Marathon Reaches Entry Limit (Sacramento Bee)
The California International Marathon has reached it's registration capacity of eight-thousand marathon entrants and four-thousand relay runners.


News From: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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   Not All Runners at CIM Have Clear View (Folsom Telegraph)
Included in the 6,000+ participants at the 2010 California International Marathon were 15 visually impaired runers, who competed in the 2nd annual Visually Impaired Marathon Championships at the CIM.

   Marathon Runners (Sacramento Bee)
Wrapup and slideshow of the 2010 California International Marathon, won by Canadian Dylan Wykes in 2:12:39, with Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba winning the women's race in 2:32:13


News From: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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   Photo Essay: California International Marathon 2010 (Sacramento Bee)
A photo essay of the 2010 California International Marathon.


News From: Monday, December 6, 2010
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   Canadian's California International Marathon Victory Is A Wire-To-Wire Upset (Sacramento Bee)
Dylan Wykes won the 28th California International Marathon with a time of 2 hours 12 minutes and 39 seconds


News From: Friday, December 3, 2010
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   Cool Conditions, Slight Rain Expected For California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
The weather will be cool and damp for the thousands of runners taking part in the California International Marathon


News From: Thursday, December 2, 2010
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   After Dropping 100 Pounds, He's Ready For California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
Travis Colby weight 325 pounds last December and knew it was too much when he was unable to fasten a seatbelt at a local amusement park. Now, 100 pounds lighter, he will run the California International Marathon


News From: Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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   Growth Challenges California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
The California International Marathon has doubled in size over the last five years and enters its twenty-eighth year as the fifteenth largest marathon in the country


News From: Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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   Sold-Out Marathon Runners Try To Sell Bib Numbers (Mercury News)
Organizers of the California International Marathon have forbidden the sale of bib numbers for the sold out marathon depsite concerns about the weather.


News From: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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   California International Marathon Draws Record Number Of Entrants (Sacramento Bee)
The California Marathon has pulled in eight-thousand runners making an eight perent increase from the 2009 marathon.


News From: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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   California International Marathoners Get Ready For The Long Run (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Julie Lossos is only running ninety miles per week. When she begins her actual training for the California International Marathon she will bump the mileage well into the one-hundreds.


News From: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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   Ready To Run Uh, Rather Walk Fast In Another Marathon (Los Gatos Weekly Times)
Marianne Hamilton finished the Marathon du Medoc nearly six years ago and vowed to never do it again. This year she hopes to finish the California International Marathon on December 5.


News From: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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   Record Numbers Compete in California International Marathon (El Dorado Hills)
All fifty states and twenty countries were represented in the sea of more than thirteen thousand runners present for the California International Marathon this past weekend.


News From: Monday, December 7, 2009
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   Sacramento's Marathon Runners Brave the Cold (The Sacramento Bee)
Despite the cold and wind that engulfed Sacramento, Tesfaye-Girma Bekele and Buzunesh Deba won the men and women's overall titles in the California International Marathon.

   California International Marathon 2009 Results: Bronx Resident Tesfaye Bekele Wins, Josh Cox 2nd (Examiner)
Tesfaye Girma-Bekele won the California International Marathon with a time of 2 hours 13 minutes and 42 seconds. Josh Cox followed closely with a time of 2 hours 13 minutes and 52 seconds.

  Human Interest Story
   Run, Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
Several reporters from the Sacramento Bee trained for the California International Marathon. Preparation appears to be the major factor in getting to the starting line. Logistics seem to be rule one for marathon racing.


News From: Sunday, December 6, 2009
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   Marathon's Starting Temp? Forecast Says 33 Degrees (The Sacramento Bee)
More than eleven thousand runners will face thirty-three degree temperatures at the start of the California International Marathon at 7 am. Temperatures are only expected to rise to forty degrees by 10 am.


News From: Saturday, December 5, 2009
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   California International Marathon Expected to be Winner for Local Economy (NEWS10)
Huge numbers of runners and spectators have converged on Sacramento for the twenty-seventh California International MArathon. More than fifty-thousand on-lookers will watch seventy-five hundred marathon runners.


News From: Thursday, December 3, 2009
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   Marathon Manual: A long-distance champion takes us on a mile-by-mile tour of Sunday's California International Marathon course (Sacramento Bee)
Tim Twietmeyer, five-time winner of the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run, will run his twenty-seventh California International Marathon on Sunday and will lead the 3 hour and 35 minute pace team.


News From: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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   California International Marathon to Close Roads From Folsom to the Capitol (Sacramento Bee)
More than fourteen-thousand runners will race from Folsom to downtown Sacramento for the annual running of the California International Marathon. Relay runners and over three-thousand children will also participate.

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   California International Marathon: Others Attracted By Race Venue (The Sacramento Bee.)
Josh Cox is hoping to earn his spot in the 2012 Olympic Trials by racing the marathon in Sacramento this weekend. The fast California International Marathon has attracted runners from all over for the scenery and the course.

  Human Interest Story
   More Photos Than Ever From the California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
Paul Kitagaki will be sending photos to the Sacramento Bee of the California International Marathon well before the marathon starts at 7 am. More than seven-thousands runners are expected to complete the 26.2 mile race.


News From: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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   California International Marathon Road Closures on Sunday (Sacramento Press)
The California International Marathon will close down 26.2 miles of of Sacramento roadways from about 8 am until 12 noon. More than fourteen thousand runners are expected to participate in the marathon events.


News From: Sunday, November 29, 2009
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   Run, Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
Next Sunday is the California International Marathon hosted in Sacramento. Several reporters from the Sacramento Bee share their training and preparation for the 26.2 mile race.

   California International Marathon Will Include Division for Visually Impaired (The Sacramento Bee)
The twenty-seventh edition of the California International Marathon will be held next Sunday and for the first time it will serve as the national championship for visually impaired runners.


News From: Thursday, November 19, 2009
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   Cheaters Will Be Caught, California International Marathon Official Says. (Sacramento Bee)
California Race Director John Mansoor says that every year twenty to twenty-five runners have their times expunged from the record books for cheating. Most simply don't run the entire marathon course.

   Sprint, Jog or Run the California International Marathon (Elk Grove Citizen)
Students in Foulks Ranch Elementary Running Club are being encouraged to speed up and run more! One-hundred and fifty-two students are training for the California International Marathon one mile at a time.


News From: Friday, January 9, 2009
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   Cole Harbour mother smashes Canadian marathon record (Matro Halifax)
Denise Robson is the mother of three and forty years of age. She is also a very fast runner. She is the fastest forty and older marathon runner by running 2 hours and 41 minutes at the California International Marathon.


News From: Monday, December 8, 2008
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   California International Marathon draws record crowd (NEWS 10)
The 26th California International Marathon kicked off with more than 11600 participants. Halefom Abebe, from Ethiopa, won the mens 2 hours and 16 minutes. Natalia Sokolova of St. Petersburg, Russia won on the women's marathon, finishing in 2 hours and 32 minutes.

  Human Interest Story
   Local runners enjoy California International marathon experience. (El Dorado Hills Telegraph)
The California International Marathon saw conditions and a course that allowed for a great competition and thousands of runners to compete. Many local runners who did not achieve their time goal were still very satisfied with the race.


News From: Sunday, December 7, 2008
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   California International Marathon by the numbers (Sacramento Bee)
Most people are familiar with the 26.2 mile distance of the marathon. The California International Marathon will also put of many other numbers over the weekend. There will bee over 11500 participants and it will take over 2000 volunteers to put on the race.


News From: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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   California International Marathon This Weekend; Watch For Street Closures (KCRA)
The twenty-sixth annual California International Marathon will begin at 7 am on Sunday and organizers want to make locals aware of street closures. More than twelve-thousand runners and walkers will hit the streets for the 26.2 mile marathon and the half-marathon.


News From: Friday, November 21, 2008
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   California International Marathon sprints to participation record (Buisiness Journal)
As if a cap of 6300 runners was not enough for the California International Marathon organizers have opened the doors for 250 more participants. The 250 spots will pay two-hundred dollar instead of the regular 75 dollars. The extra fifty thousand will go toward trail improvements.


News From: Thursday, November 20, 2008
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   Running the numbers: Participation on rise for California International Marathon (The Sacramento Bee)
The twenty-fifth edition of the California International Marathon continues to grow. The race saw 5600 runners last year and the 2008 race has registered 6000 runners for the December 7th marathon race.


News From: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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   Blind Folsom Man Qualifies For Boston Marathon at the California International Marathon (EDH Telegraph)
Richard Hunter completed the California International Marathon in 3:18:49 to qualify himself for the Boston Marathon.


News From: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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   Marathon Runners To Cause Road Closures (Capital Public Radio)
A record number of runners will be running in the twenty-seventh annual California International Marathon. Local officials are excited about the boost to the economy.

  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Robson to Run California International Marathon Despite Injury (The Chronicle Herald)
Denise Robson set a Canadian age group record for women over the age of forty at last years California International Marathon. She returns this year but will do so on a partially torn hamstring.


News From: Monday, December 3, 2007
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   Kenyan man, Polish woman place first at California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
Laban Moiben and Wioletta Kryza won the 2007 California International Marathon.

   It's a Qualifying Parade in California International Marathon (Sacramento Bee)
After Wioletta Kryza of Poland won the women's race, the United States olympic hopefuls started to cross the finish line.



 

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