Issue 50-06-14 June 25, 2014
Upcoming Events
Get Your Rear in Gear, Rochester, MN, June 28
Heartbeat 5000, Minneapolis, MN, June 28
Challenge Diabetes 5K, St. Paul, MN, June 28
Brooklyn Cyclones Take Your Base 5K, Brooklyn, NY, June 29
Mt. Kilimanjaro Marathon, Moshi, Tanzania, June 29
TC Pride Rainbow Run, St. Paul, MN, June 29
Canada D'eh Run, Amherstburg, Ontario, July 1
Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50, Foxborough, MA, July 3
Firecracker 5000, Seattle, WA, July 3
4th of July - Free to Run 4 Miles, St. Paul, MN, July 4
Red, White and Boom! TC Half-Marathon, Minneapolis, MN, July 4
Surf City Run, Huntington Beach, CA, July 4
AJC Peachtree Road Race, Atlanta, GA, July 4
Liberty Run, Denver, CO, July 4
Liberty Dash, Lone Tree, CO, July 4
Firecracker 6, Indianapolis, IN, July 4
Hilton Head Firecracker Run, Hilton Head Island, SC, July 4
Firecracker Run, East Moline, IL, July 4
NYCRUNS Firecracker 5K & 10K, New York, NY, July 4
Hunter Vision Watermelon 5k, Winter Park, FL, July 4
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Reigning Champion Rita Jeptoo Headlines the 2014 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Elite Field
CHICAGO - The Bank of America Chicago Marathon announced that defending champions Rita Jeptoo and
Tatyana McFadden, fresh off of World Marathon Majors (WMM) victories in Boston, will return to Chicago to chase consecutive titles.
Kenya's Jeptoo ran her first career sub-2:20 marathon in Chicago last year with a time of 2:19:57, the fastest women's marathon time of 2013. Continuing strong, she opened her 2014 marathon campaign in Boston with a forceful 2:18:57, smashing the previous course record by almost two minutes and setting a new personal best.
Jeptoo arrives in Chicago with the potential to rewrite the record books by becoming the third woman in history to run three sub-2:20 marathons.
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Wine Country Half Marathon Attracts All-Star Field to Napa-Sonoma
SONOMA, Calif. - The Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon has attracted some of the best names in running for the July 19-20 event. The event, produced by Destination Races
and presented by Newton Running, is part of a nationwide event series. Headlining the flagship Napa-to-Sonoma race weekend will be Olympic Silver Medalist, 2014 Boston Marathon Champion and 2009 New York City Marathon Champion Meb Keflezighi. He will be the guest speaker at the race expo and race dinner. Keflezighi will also lead the race on an ElliptiGO bike next to running legend Mary Decker Slaney, who will lead the female runners.
Highlighting the men's elite field is Ryan Hall, the American Half Marathon course record holder in 59:43, and US Olympian in the marathon at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympic games. Hall will be running in his first Wine Country Half Marathon at Napa-to-Sonoma. Tesfaye Alemayehu, the 4-time defending champion and Napa-to-Sonoma course record holder (1:02:38) returns, as does Sergio Reyes, winner of the 2014 Flying Pig Marathon and 2014 Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon. Ben Bruce and Craig Leon, who finished 13th and 27th, respectively, in the USA Half Marathon Championships earlier this year, will also challenge.
Not to be overshadowed, the women's elite field includes
Lauren Fleshman, two-time USA champion in the 5,000. Fleshman is a profound elite runner, writer and entrepreneur. . She will be a guest speaker at the race expo along with competing in the race. Fleshman makes her half-marathon debut at Napa-to-Sonoma against former Stanford teammate Sara Hall, who broke the course record (1:14:33) in her first half marathon at the 2013 Healdsburg Wine Country Half Marathon.
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Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus Marathon Updates Course
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon is excited to announce a new course for the 2014 event that will pass by the event's namesake charitable partner for its 35th running in October.
The Oct. 19 event also will feature a combined start and finish at North Bank Park in the Arena District of Downtown Columbus. Joining these areas is expected to enhance excitement at what already is known as one of the most entertaining long-distance running and walking experiences in North America.
"Running or walking past Nationwide Children's Hospital will be very meaningful for our participants," said Bill Burns, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Columbus Marathon. "This will further enhance the connection between the event and the Hospital. This is the final piece to making this partnership complete. The excitement at that spot on the course will be electric."
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Colorado Runners on Top at Mt. Washington Road Race
PINKHAM NOTCH, NH (June 21, 2014) - Two runners from Colorado Springs, Colorado, broke through in a major way on Saturday and won the men's and women's titles at the 54th running of this grueling all-uphill race in impressive fashion on a decent, but windy and chilly, day for racing.
Temperatures were in the high 40s at the base at the 9 a.m. starting time, and at the summit it was in the mid-30s, with winds gusting from 20 to 35 miles per hour.
Veteran mountain runner Joseph Gray, 30, looked strong from the start and pulled away from defending champion and three-time winner Eric Blake of West Hartford, Connecticut, just past the halfway mark of the 7.6-mile trek up the Mt. Washington Auto Road to the highest peak in the Northeast.
Gray finished in a time of 59 minutes and nine seconds. Blake, 35, the cross country and track and field coach at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, finished in 1:00:01, four seconds slower than his winning time last year.
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Seattle Puts on a Show at 2014 Rock 'n' Roll Marathon
SEATTLE (June 21, 2014) - With a double bill of Sir-Mix-A-Lot and The Presidents
of United States of America
at Seattle Center's Fisher Green, a venue packed with thousands of runners got double the fun on the first day of summer at the 2014
Rock 'n' Roll Seattle Marathon & ½ Marathon
on Saturday..
The 6th edition of Seattle's marquee running event did not disappoint, attracting America's most decorated winter Olympian Apolo Ohno for his first race of any kind in the Emerald City. Ohno ran a personal best time of 1 hour, 36 minutes and 49 seconds as he trains to compete at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.
The event crowned four new champions. With the mighty Mount Rainier shining in the distance on a picture perfect Seattle day, marathoner Drew Polley (above) had just passed mile 21 when he started to fade. As he entered the I-90 tunnel, cheers began erupting from the thousands of runners streaming down the other side.
The cheers and picturesque views pushed him to dig deeper, with defending champion Yon Yilma regaining ground behind him. Polley had gained an early lead after dropping Yilma in the first few miles. He would finish well ahead, in 2:24:52
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