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News From: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
	Boston Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Bertinelli To Run Boston Marathon (UPI.com) Valerie Bertinelli will join the list of celebrities that have run the Boston Marathon when she competes in the one-hundred and fourteenth running of the event on Monday.
		American Women Contenders Are A Distant Memory (Boston Globe) Paige Higgins appears to be the best U.S. contender for the one-hundred and fourteenth running of the Boston Marathon. The two most prominent American women marathon runners, Deena and Kara, are entered in the London marathon and having a baby respectively.
		Financial Bumps Get Smoothed Out Before Boston (Boston Globe) The cities and towns along the Boston Marathon course spend a significant amount of money to keep crowds at bay and ensure that the roads are safe for more than 25,000 runners.
		Barefoot Running Craze Gains Momentum In Boston (The Boston Channel) The Boston Marathon kicks off on April 19 and will showcase plenty of runners embracing the barefoot or nearly barefoot world of running.
	Eisenhower Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Record Numbers Run 2010 Eisenhower Marathon In Abilene Kansas - New Course Record Set (Examiner.com) Nearly seven-hundred and fifty runners flooded the hotels of Abilene Kansas for the Eisenhower Marathon. Daniel Craig won the marathon in a new course record time of 2 hours 32 minutes and 1 second.
		Gypsum Man Wins Eisenhower Marathon (The Abiilene Reflector-Chronicle) Daniel Craig, 29, won the Eisenhower Marathon in a record time of 2 hours 32 minutes in nearly perfect racing conditions.
	London Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Injury Forces Martin Lel Out of Running London Marathon (video) (Examiner.com) Kenya's Martin Lel, a three-time winner of the London Marathon, has been forced from the 2010 version due to a hip injury.
		Martin Lel Forced Out Of London Marathon For Second Year In A Row Through Injury (Telegraph.co.uk) Martin Lel will not be the first man in history to win the London Marathon four times. His attempt to do so will have to wait at least another twelve months.
		Human Interest Story
		Katie Price Fuels Pregnancy Rumors By Pulling Out Of London Marathon On Doctor's Orders (Telegraph.co.uk) Glamour model, Katie Price, was trying to raise money for Vision, a blindness charity. She has been advised to pull out of the London marathon by doctors orders.
	Martian Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Mark Villwock Of Grand Blanc Places Second In Martian Marathon (MLive.com) Mark Villwock took home second place in the Martian Marathon in 2 hours 48 minutes and 55 seconds. Chuck Engle of Dublin Ohio won the event with a time of 2 hours 39 minutes and 30 seconds.
	Mont Blanc Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Mont Blanc Marathon Inscriptions Complete For 2010 (Chamonet.com) The Mont Blanc Marathon has joined the list of sold-out marathons. Registrations were filled more than two months before the race date.
	Nike 26.2 = Nike Women's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		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
	Odds And Ends
		Human Interest Story
		Janet Cherobon: A Portrait (Rome News Tribune) Janet Cherobon won the Indi Mini 500 Half Marathon for the third time as one of the top women distance runners in the coutry. Janet is running between ninety and one-hundred miles per week.
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Ethiopian Sweep At Daegu Marathon (IAAF.org) Deressa Chimsa won the Daegu Marathon with a time of 2 hours 8 minutes and 45 seconds. Yeshi Esayais continued the Ethiopian sweep of the titles by winning the woman's division of the marathon with a time of 2 hours 29 minutes and 17 seconds.
	Southern Indiana Classic Marathon and Half Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Vanderburgh County Marathon To Return Next Year (24WFIE.com) The Southern Indiana Classic Marathon hosted more than sixteen-hundred runners and ten-thousand spectators. Race organizers expect to expand the race for 2011.
	Whidbey Island Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Whidbey Island Marathon And Half-Marathon Results (OregenLive.com) Uli Bromme of Boulder Colorado won the Whidbey Island Marathon with a time of 2 hours 54 minutes and 56 seconds. Spencer Walsh of Seattle Washington took home the overall title with a time of 2 hours and 30 minutes and 23 seconds.
News From: Monday, April 12, 2010
	Athens Marathon (Greece)
		Human Interest Story
		'Coincide Flights To Athens' With The Classical Marathon (Sunisle.co.uk) The Classical Athens Greek Marathon will be held on October 31. This year marks the twenty-five hundredth year since the Battle of Marathon in Ancient Greece took place.
	Canberra Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Canberra Marathon Spirit Lives On With Walk (Canberra Times) Linda Christison walked fifty-kilometers around Lake Burley Griffin to celebrate her strength and will. The Canberra Marathon was supposed to be part of her walk but the race was canceled due to feuding event managers.
	Dead Sea Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Jordanian Runners Dominate Dead Sea Marathon (The Jordan Times) Jordan's Mohammad Abu Rezq took home top honors in the forty-two kilometer Dead Sea Marathon with Jordan runners taking home the top three spots.
	Garmin Marathon (prev. Oz Marathon)
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Minnesota Runner Surprise Winner Of The Olathe Marathon (Kansas City Star) Brian Peterson won the Olathe Kansas Marathon with a time of 2 hours 36 minutes and 49 seconds to win by more than twelve minutes.
	GO! St. Louis Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Gilpin, Lossos Win GO! St. Louis Marathon (St.Louis Post Dispatch) Karl Gilpin told himself to "just win" in the GO! St. Louis Marathon. He did just that in a time of 2 hours 25 minutes and 41 seconds and took home his third title in four years at the marathon
	Odds And Ends
		Human Interest Story
		Less Than A Week Until The Inaugural Brighton Marathon (The Argus) More than twelve-thousand runners are expected to take part in the Brighton Marathon on April 18. Paul Roberts is running the race to raise money for children's cancer charities.
	Paris Int'l Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Bayisa Defends Paris Title (The Sporting Life) Ethiopia's Atsede Bayisa defended her Paris Marathon title with a personal best marathon time and new course record of 2 hours 22 minutes and 4 seconds.
		Ethiopians Are Masters Of Paris (Next) Tadesse Tola and Atsede Bayisa won the men and women's marathon titles in Paris as Ethiopians dominated a race that Kenyans had previously controlled.
		Kenyan Hold In Paris Broken By Tola (The Standard) Ethiopia's Tadesses Tola broke the Kenyan winning streak at the Paris Marathon by winning the title with a time of 2 hours 6 minutes and 41 seconds in just his second marathon.
		Ethiopian Win Paris Marathon (RFI) The thirty-fourth Paris International Marathon was dominated by Ethiopian runners. Tadesse Tola took home the top spot with a time of 2 hours 6 minutes and 37 seconds while Atsede Bayasa set a new course record for the women with her winning time of 2 hours 22 minutes and 3 seconds.
	Rotterdam Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Makau Blasts To First Full Marathon Win In Rotterdam (The Standard) Peter Makau may not have finished the New York City Marathon last fall but he won the Rotterdam Marathon with the fourth fastest marathon of all time in a time of 2 hours 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
	Taunton Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Sun Comes Out For Taunton Marathon (Taunton People) The sun greeted hundreds of runners and spectators for the Taunton Marathon. Fund raising and charities seemed to be the theme for the day as runners took to the streets at 10:30 am
	Whidbey Island Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Walsh, Bromme Win The Ninth Annual Whidbey Island Marathon (Whidbey News-Times) Spencer Walsh of Seattle and Uli Bromme of Boulder won the ninth annual Whidbey Island Marathon. Walsh's time was 2 hours 30 minutes and 23 seconds and Uli Bromme took the women's title with a time of 2 hours 54 minutes and 56 seconds.
News From: Sunday, April 11, 2010
	Big-D Texas Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Big D Texas Marathon (WFAA.com) The Big D Texas Marathon kicks off in Fair Park near the famous Cotton Bowl near Dowtown Dallas at 8 am.