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BOSTON (April 20, 2015) - Tight packs, cool temperatures  and moderate early paces led to thrilling finishes Monday morning at the 119th running of the Boston Marathon. Ethiopian athlete Lelisa Desisa made a decisive move with six miles to go to win the men's race and regain the title he won in 2013, while Kenyan Caroline Rotich won her first major marathon.
Early on, both the men's and women's races held over a dozen competitors among their lead packs. While athletes took turns leading each, ultimately it was the front running heroics of Americans Des Linden and Dathan Ritzenhein which drove onlookers into a frenzy.
Linden took over the lead of the women's pack just past 10K and continued to push the pace, passing through halfway in 1:12:44, leading until just past the 20 mile mark when Ethiopian Mare Dibaba took charge and put in a surge to break up the field.
While a handful of competitors held tough, the lead group quickly narrowed down to Dibaba, Rotich and Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba . Linden held pace for as long as she could, running 10 seconds behind for three miles, but the quick tempo up front kept the lead group just far enough ahead to where Linden could never regain contact.
In the men's race, Ritzenhein led the lead pack of a dozen competitors from the 70 minute mark onward. He continued to push the pace, along with 2013 champion Lelisa Desisa and reigning champion Meb Keflezighi, until Desisa made a decisive move with just under 10K to go, breaking up the field and making it a four man race.
Desisa traded leads with fellow Ethiopian Yemane Tsegay, while Kenyans Wilson Chebet and Wesley Korir followed just off their shoulders. With 5K to go, Desisa put in one final move, breaking Chebet and Korir, as only Tsegay stayed with him.
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BOSTON (Saturday, April 18, 2015) - Molly Huddle defended her B.A.A. 5K title on Saturday morning in grand fashion, breaking the tape and the American  record in 14:50, slashing four seconds off the mark set by Deena Kastor in 2002. And New England
native Ben True ran his way into the record books, clocking a national record time of 13:22 to win his third B.A.A. 5K title.
In the back of her mind, Huddle had the vague notion that she might chase the 5K American record at some point. Maybe later this year. Certainly not today.
"But wow," she said, looking stunned as the realization set in that she had not only broken the record but had also run a personal best by a whopping 20 seconds. "Wow."
The 30-year-old Huddle, who lives and trains in Providence, R.I., already owned the American record at 5000 meters on the track and is a four-time 5K national champion. She earned $7,500 for the victory and a bonus of $5,000 for setting an event record.
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BOSTON (April 18, 2015) - Olympic silver medalist
Dejen Gebremeskel added his name to the list of illustrious winners of the event, winning the B.A.A. Invitational Mile title in a swift 4:04.1. In the women's race, E  thiopian 18-year-old Dawit Seyaum's (right) winning time of 4:35.4 smashed the course record of 4:38.6 set by Anna Willard in the event's inaugural year of 2009.
Men's B.A.A. Invitational Mile
This was the one to watch. A field of seven world class milers, hammering around the streets of Back Bay. It's a sight to see. Ethiopia's Dejen Gebremeskel - a two-time B.A.A. 5K champion - gave his more fancied peers a lesson in road miling. Gebremeskel, indeed, had never raced this distance on the road before, although his Olympic 5000m silver medal and 12:46.81 PB made him fearsome.
Even so, it was interesting to see the lithe Ethiopian surge to the front of the field and stay there, holding a stride lead after one lap (1:23) and five meter gap after two (2:44). In his wake were five-time Arkansas All American Duncan Phillips; European 1500 bronze medalist, indoors and out, Chris O'Hare; two time Baylor All American and Welsh Commonwealth Games representative, Chris Gowell; Oklahoma All American Frezer Legesse; plus, BAA sub-four competitors, Steve Mangan and Dan Lowry.
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St. PAUL, Minn. - Hometown star Heather Kampf and University of Wisconsin alumnus Craig  Miller will return to downtown Minneapolis hoping to repeat the USATF 1 Mile Road Championship and Medtronic TC 1 Mile
victories each earned in 2012. The duo headline the USATF Championship fields racing for a $25,000 prize purse and a pair of $10,000 event record bonuses at the 2015 Medtronic TC 1 Mile on Thursday, May 14.
The event is expected to draw more than 3,000 runners to downtown Minneapolis for a full evening of racing. This year the event moves to a new course, starting near the Parade Athletic Fields, racing by the Basilica of St. Mary on Hennepin Avenue, and finishing in the heart of the Hennepin Avenue Theater District near the 6th Street intersection.
Kampf, a Rosemount native who won an NCAA title at the University of Minnesota and now trains with Team USA Minnesota, outran the Medtronic TC 1 Mile field in 2012 for her lone Medtronic TC 1 Mile victory and the first of two USA 1 Mile Road titles. In 2013, Kampf, who owns at 4:21.39 personal best for the mile, finished 3rd at the Medtronic TC 1 Mile. Last year's event was cancelled due to severe weather.
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WICHITA, Kan. - April 7, 2015 -
Running USA, the national non-profit trade organization for running events and associated businesses, is pleased to announce the creation of a new annual forum, The Next Evolution presented by Events.com. The inaugural event takes place June 28-29 in Chicago. For details, click the logo below.
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