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Around the Lake Marathon
	News From: Thursday, July 29, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Peabody's Monteiro Aims To Win 24 Hour Marathon At Around The Lake (The Salem News) Kevin Monteiro ran one-hundred and six miles in 24 hours around Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefiled Massachusett last July to finish in fourth place. He hopes to win it all this year.
Beirut International Marathon
	News From: Friday, July 23, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Beirut Marathon 2010 To Be Held On November 7 (Daily Star) The Beirut Marathon will take place on November 7. Race Organizers are expecting the biggest field with more than thirty-thousand runners expected to participate.
Carrollton Festival of Races
	News From: Monday, July 26, 2010
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Carrollton Festival Of Races Showcases Fast Race Course in 11th Year (The Saginaw News) Chuck Engle won the Carrollton Festival of Races Marathon with a time of 2 hours 43 minutes and 12 seconds with four other runners crossing the line under the three hour mark.
	News From: Friday, July 23, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Carrollton Festival Of Races Gives Runners Plenty Of Options (The Saginaw News) The Carrollton Festival of Races won't pull in large numbers of registrations for the eleventh annual festival but the races have grown and evolved.
Cities Marathon
	News From: Monday, July 26, 2010
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Westlink Marathon: Runner Motors Along M7 To Victory (The Blacktown Advocate) Rop Cleophas of Kenya won the the fifth annual Westlink M7 Cities Marathon with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes.
Deseret News Classic Marathon
	News From: Monday, July 26, 2010
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Kenyan Runner Edward Kiptum Rallies In Final Stretch For Deseret News Marathon Win (Deseret Morning News) Edward Kiptum wore race number 1 and took it as a sign that he was supposed to win the Deseret News Marathon. He did so with a time of 2 hours 20 minutes and 47 seconds.
	News From: Friday, July 23, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		'Hooked' Burnham Among 600 Entered In Marathon (Deseret News) Wally Burnham got hooked running races when he placed in his age group. This weekend he will join more than six-hundred others for the Deseret News Marathon as he completes his 105th marathon.
		Orem 'Marathon Man' To Mark 300th Marathon Saturday (KSL.com) The forty-first annual Deseret News Marathon started back in 1969 with 43 finishers. John Bozung is hoping to cross the finish line and celebrate his 300th marathon.
Fox Cities Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Cellcom To Continue Timing Services At Community First Fox Cities Marathon (Post Crescent) Cellcom will return as the Fox Cities Marathon technology partner for the September 17 through the 19 weekend of racing.
	News From: Thursday, July 22, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Fox Cities Marathon Offers Fitness Challenge (Post Crescent) The twentieth annual Fox Cities Marathon is hoping to promote health and fitness amongst area businesses and companies through a marathon fitness challenge
Grizzly Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Nearly 400 Runners Expected For Grizzly Marathon (Choteau Acantha) The ninth annual Grizzly Marathon will play host to nearly four-hundred runners. Races include the marathon along with a 5K, 10K and half-marathon.
Houston Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Houston Marathon Lottery Registration Opens For 2011 (Spreadit Sports) The Houston Marathon will be held on January 30, 2011 and registration for the lottery slots in the race has started.
	News From: Friday, July 23, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Lottery Ends Houston's Race To The Start (Dallas News) The Houston Marathon will open it's new lottery system this coming Tuesday. The marathon sold out in under sixty-hours last year and race organizers want to give everyone a fair shot at an entry.
	News From: Thursday, July 22, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Here Is Your Chance To Run With Elite (Houston Chronicle) The Houston Marathon will allow up to 100 people to run with elite athletes in the 2011 USA Half-Marathon Championships while testing the route for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials
London Marathon
	News From: Friday, July 23, 2010
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Exclusive: David Bedford to step down as race director of London Marathon (Insidethegames.biz) Having been officailly associated with the London Marathon for 28 years, race director David Bedford plans on retiring by 2013.
Maine Marathon
	News From: Thursday, July 29, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Marathons Filling Up For The Fall (SeaCoast Online) The Mount Desert Island Marathon in Maine has filled to capacity and the Maine Marathon on October 3 will probably close shortly.
Marathon Bahamas
	News From: Thursday, July 22, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon Bahamas Partners With Susan G. Komen For The Cure (Bahama Islands Info) Marathon Bahamas has partnered with Susan G. Komen and will allow the race even extend to a full weekend of running activities
Melbourne Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Kai Ready To Take On Melbourne Marathon (Hastings Leader) Kai Sonter is the face of this years Melbourne Marathon. The five-year-old suffers from cerebral palsy.
Milo Marathon
	News From: Thursday, July 22, 2010
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Buenavista, 28 Others Clinch Milo Marathon Final Slots (GMA News) Eduardo Buenavista will return to the National Milo Marathon by running one hour and six minutes at the Centerpiece 21K to earn the trip for the December Marathon championship.
Mount Desert Island marathon
	News From: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Planning On A Fall Marathon In Maine? (Sea Coast Online) Gary Allen, race director for the Mount Desert Island Marathon has announced that registration closed for the October 17 race. The October 3 Maine Marathon is still open but has a cap of three-thousand, five-hundred.
Mumbai Marathon
	News From: Thursday, July 22, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Mumbai Marathon 2011 To Take Place On January 3rd. Registrations Begin Today (That's Famous.com) The Mumbai Marathon kicks off on January 3rd and the mega events registration has opened on-line.
New York City Marathon
	News From: Thursday, July 22, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Seeing Is Believing - As In See The Entire ING New York City Marathon Course, Believe You Can Run IT (New York Daily Times) The New York City Marathon can been seen on YouTube as a quick tour through the entire course. The video takes about seven minutes.
Odds And Ends
	News From: Thursday, July 29, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Barcelona Could Be Last Stand For Baldini (Race Results Weekly) Celebrated Italian running legend, Stefano Baldini, who won his first European title nearly a dozen years ago, and the 2004 Olympic title in Athens, is looking to give a possible last chance effort at medaling at this years European Championships held in Barcelona
	News From: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
		Human Interest Story
		Daring Runner Prepares For Congo Marathon (Community Newswire) Chris Jackson hopes to complete twelve marathons in twelve months and will head to Congo to run the marathon on August 18.
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Medal Is Finally Gold For Abeylegesse (Race Results Weekly) Ethopian-born Turk, Elvan Abeylegesse outlasted a strong field to win her first championship gold in the 10,000m, at the European Championships in Athletics in Barcelona with a time of 31:10:23.
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon's Are For Sissies (Boise Weekly) Joelle Vaught won the Where's Waldo 100K ultramarathon last year and is aiming for the Western States Endurance Race making marathon running seem simple.
	News From: Monday, July 26, 2010
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Crow Pass Crossing Separates Champions From The Casual (KTUU.com) Geoff Ross took home top honors at the annual Crow Pass Wilderness Crossing Marathon with a time of 2 hours 54 minutes and 44 seconds.
		'I Did Okay' Says Women's Crow Pass Winner (Anchorage Daily News) Abby Rideout won the Crow Pass 24 mile Wilderness Marathon with a time of 3 hours 50 minutes and 54 seconds just missing the course record.
		Tadese Overwhelms Strong Field In Castelbuono (Race Results Weekly) As many elite runners struggled with the difficult course, four-time world road runniner & half-marathon champion Zerseney Tadese of Eritrea overwhelmed the field to capture the 85th running of Italy's most competetive and oldest summer road race.
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon Runners In Alaska Face Some Unique Challenges (Lexington-Herald Leader) Eric Strabel faced a bear that stopped him in his tracks during his marathon race in the annual Crow Pass Crossing wildnerness marathon.