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News From: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
	Cleveland Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Cleveland Marathon winners corrected (Canton Rep) To correct previous erroneous results for the 2008 Cleveland Marathon, the top women finishers were Donna Palisca with a 3:07:27. Connie Gardner was runner up in 3:09:26 and Jenni Culbertson was third in 3:09:58. In the men's division, Retta Feyissa won with a time of 2:33:34, James Beyer finished second at 2:34:52 and Rob Juergens was third at 2:35:43.
	Great Wall Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon runners reach a Great Wall (CNN) About one thousand six hundred athletes from forty-nine countries not only climbed but ran The 2008 Great Wall of China Marathon. Revered as one of the most challenging marathons in the world, runners clambered over thousands of steps, varying in length and size, to complete the course. Each year the number of runners who take part in the event increases, but this year participation in the marathon saw unprecedented growth of an extra fifty percent.
	Odds And Ends
		Human Interest Story
		Eye of the Tiger Tops Marathon Runners' Poll (In The News UK) Eye of the Tiger by the band Survivor, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts for six weeks in 1982, was voted the number one song to inspire runners to complete a lap in a poll carried out by UK based health website realbuzz.com. More than three thousand marathon runners took part in the poll. Runner-up was Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. The Spencer Davis Group's Keep on Running and Vangelis' Chariots of Fire - from the athletically-themed film of the same name - were voted into fourth and fifth place respectively.
	Pittsburgh Marathon (defunct: 1985-2003)
		Human Interest Story
		Pittsburgh Marathon to return after five-year lull (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Pittsburgh Marathon will return in May 2009 with title sponsor Dick's Sporting Goods. The 2004 race was canceled because the title sponsor, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, pulled out. Then-mayor Tom Murphy said the city couldn't afford to pay the costs of extra police protection and cleanup because it was on the verge of bankruptcy and laid off over seven hundred workers.
	Twin Cities Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Registration closes for Twin Cities Marathon (Star Tribune) Registration for the twenty-seventh annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon officially closed Monday when the 11,000-runner field filled. But those who missed out can still reserve a spot through the Fundraiser Entry Program which will open up one hundred fifty additional spots to those who pay the $95 entry fee along with a $100-tax deductible donation benefiting Bolder Options, Migizi Communications and the YWCA of Minneapolis. Registration for the spots begin at noon Thursday and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
		Only 50 spots left in Twin Cities Marathon (Star Tribune) The field for the 27th annual Twin Cities Marathon is nearly full. Fewer than 50 spots remained as of Monday morning, said race spokeswoman Kristine Smith. Registration will remain open until the race reaches its capacity of 11,000 runners. The 26.2-mile race on Oct. 5 begins near the Metrodome and ends at the State Capitol in St. Paul.
News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
	Blue Nose International Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Melloy wins Blue Nose Marathon by nearly seven minutes (The Chronicle Herald Sports) Terry Melloy won the 5th annual Blue Nose Marathon with a time of 2 hours 48 minutes and 45 seconds on Sunday.The marathon ran through the streets of Halifax and Dartmouth. It was Melloy's seventh career marathon the Boston Marathon veteran claimed his fifth victory. Melloy, 48, won by nearly seven minutes over the runner up from Summerside, Scott Clark. Clark, who was second for the second straight, year in a time of 2:55.12 with a field of 262 runners.
	Buffalo Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Buffalo Marathon on pace for record crowd (San Antonio Bizjournals) Organizers of the Buffalo Marathon say they are expecting the biggest field yet for the annual race with three thousand expected in the full or half marathon. Seven hundred additional participants have registered. This year's field will also include runners who are prepping for the Summer Olympics as well as the defending champion, Jacob Chamber of Kenya.
	Capital City Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		3-time Capital City Marathon winner has cool finish (The Olympian) Jesse Stevik won the Capital City Marathon for the third time in nearly ideal conditions with a time of 2 hours 35 minutes and 12 seconds. Annie Thiessen of Tacoma was the marathon's first women finisher. Thiessen, 37, finished in 3:05:34.
		Capital City Marathon starts, finishes strong (The Olympian) The twenty-seventh edition of the Capital City Marathon had perfect weather and for the third year the same overall winner. Jesse Stevick ran the last twenty-three miles of the marathon alone to a winning time of 2 hours, 35 minutes and 12 seconds. Annie Thiessen, Tacoma, took the women's title with a time of 3 hours 5 minutes and 34 seconds.
	Cleveland Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		New York City man wins Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon (Chicago Tribune) Retta Feyissa, 33, of Bronx, N.Y., won the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon in a time of 2 hours 33 minutes. He was followed by Rob Juergens, 44, of Avon Lake, Ohio, who finished the 26.2 mile race 2 hours, 35 minutes and 52 seconds. Douglas Najor, 50, of Sterling Heights, Mich.,took third place with a finish time of 2 hours, 36 minutes and 54 seconds. Top honors in the women's division went to Jennifer Haynes, 28, of Columbus, Ohio, with a time of 3 hours, 5 minutes and 54 seconds. Donna Palisca, 30, of Norristown, Pa., took second at 3 hours, 7 minutes and 9 seconds, and Jenni Culbertson, 23, of Detroit, was third with a time of 3 hours, 9 minute sand 49 seconds.
		Cleveland marathon: Women's/men's marathon story (Plain Dealer) After 31 years of leading the Cleveland Marathon, Jack Staph will probably never see another double winner with the likes of Donna Palisca. She won the race in 2005 in 2 hours 54 minutes and 53 seconds. She ran nearly 12 minutes slower in Sundays marathon and still won. Her running has taken a considerable back seat to two new sons and a husband who is serving overseas in Iraq.
	Colfax Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Error of their ways not an issue: For the second year running, field is led astray (Rocky Mountain News) The Colfax Marathon changed their course for this years 26.2 mile race. Justin Cox won the race in 2 hours 43 minutes and 22 seconds. This year race, similar to the misdirection in last years race, probably cost Justin 2 minutes as he ran an extra quarter mile. Cox won last years race, but his time this year was still a personal best despite the added length of the already brutal 26.2 mile race.
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Record participation at Colfax Marathon (Cleveland Examiner) Boulder resident Justin Mock won the annual Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon for the second straight year, with a time of 2 hours 42 minutes and 27 seconds. The event drew the largest number of participants in the race's three-year history. 22-year-old Tristan Mitchell finished in 2:47.46 to take second place.
	Delaware Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Colombian man wins Delaware Marathon (Delaware Wired) Jorge Real of Bogota, Colombia, won the Christiana Care Health System Delaware Marathon with a time of 2 hours 33 minutes and 35 seconds. Thirty-five-year-old Eric Makovsky, of Washington D.C., took second place honors in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 20 seconds. While 24-year-old Kevin Beugless, of Media, Pennsylvania, came in third in two hours, 40 minutes and 30 seconds. Jaclyn Truncellito of Baltimore was women's champion in three hours, seven minutes and 17 seconds.
	Green Bay Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Miami man, Minnesota woman win Green Bay marathon (Chicago Tribune) Andrii Toptun, originally from the Ukraine, crossed the Green Bay Marathon finish line Sunday in two hours, 22 minutes, 51 seconds. Callen Areba, a Kenyan from Coon Rapids, Minnesota won the women's race in 2:52:29. The marathon race drew 7,288 runners, surpassing last year's participation of 6,700 participants.
	Olympics 2008 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Troop declares himself top 10 chance at Beijing Olympic Marathon (Geelong Advertiser) Lee Troop was the only Australian male to be selected for the 2008 Olympic team in Beijing. He is predicting a top 10 finish for himself. Troop said he wanted to emulate the feats of Australian marathon legends Rob de Castella and his coach Steve Moneghetti in achieving a top 10 placing at the Olympic Games. Both did it twice.
	Olympics 2008 (Women)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Four in for the long run at Beijing Olympics (Herald Sun) Former world cross-country champion Benita Johnson heads the Australian women's Olympic marathon team. The list of runners includes Olympic debutantes Kate Smyth(Nagano 2:28.51) and Lisa-Jane Weightman(London 2:32:22).Geelong veteran Lee Troop was the only male marathoner named yesterday.
		Human Interest Story
		Radcliffe named to Brits Olympic Team despite injury (Sportal) Paula Radcliffe is hobbling around on crutches with a sever hip injury. The current world record holder pulled out of the London Marathon with a toe injury. She will be joined on the team by Liz Yelling, plus Japan-based Mara Yamauch.
News From: Saturday, May 17, 2008
	Fargo Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Missouri woman wins women's Fargo Marathon title (In-Forum News) At thirty-nine years old, Andrea McGehee won the 2008 Fargo Marathon in 3:08. This was her fourth marathon to date. Her third marathon was the 2008 Boston Marathon last month.
	Green Bay Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Green Bay races console couple after daughters death (Green Bay Press Gazette) Ed and Sharon Pierson find solace in running marathons. After their thirty-six-year-old daughter, a runner, was killed in a car accident, the couple now use marathons to keep their daughters legacy alive.
	Odds And Ends
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Makau Wins, But Ritzenhein's Record Still Stands (Race Results Weekly) Debuting in a race in the U.S. for the first time, Kenyan elite runner Patrick Makau won the New York Road Runner's Healthy Kidney 10-K in a 28:08. Although he did not break Dathan Ritzenhein's course record set in 2007, Makau was pleased with the results. Makau was on pace for a course record by mile four, but was waylaid by the challenging course.
	Olympics 2008 (Women)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Pain for Paula Radcliffe (Times Online UK) Paula Radcliffe is on crutches just fourteen weeks before she bids to win the marathon at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Radcliffe, who missed last months Flora London Marathon with a toe injury, has developed a muscle problem in her hip. An MRI scan did not pick up the problem but a second test revealed that a muscle has pulled away and is putting pressure on her bone.
News From: Friday, May 16, 2008
	Cleveland Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Website follows runner's progress during Cleveland Marathon (Plain Dealer) My Athlete, a sports technology firm based in Easton, Connecticut, will be testing real time runner tracking for for a special athlete running the Cleveland Marathon using a new GPS device. That will show where Plain Dealer reporter Zachary Lewis has been and where he is at that moment, current to within thirty seconds. The device he's using is a prototype and may not be one hundred percent accurate.
	Great Wall Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Relief as marathon man escapes quake (ICWales) Karl Baynham, 51, and friends Billy Donegan, Peter Keeber, Georgie Barnes and Peter Coughlin flew to Beijing for the Great Wall marathon as news filtered through about the earthquake estimated to have killed 20,000 people. The brother of a Merthyr Tydfil man who travelled to China earlier this week has spoken of his relief after hearing he is safe.
	London Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Branson joins London marathon as runner and sponsor (Reuters UK) Billionaire Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group of businesses spans music to space travel, is preparing to run his first marathon in 2010 to give a boost to London's biggest fundraising race. The fifty-seven-year-old entrepreneur is known for adventures, but had steered away from running since childhood. Branson will don running shoes in the name of fundraising as he is hopeful that the race will make over a quarter billion pounds in five years.
		Virgin succeeds Flora as London Marathon sponsor (Guardian UK) After fourteen years as title sponsor of the London Marathon, Virgin has signed a £17m deal to replace Flora as the next sponsor of the London marathon. The new five year London marathon title sponsorship deal will be Virgin Money, the company's financial services division. Virgin founder Richard Branson is excited about the new prospects.
	Ogden Marathon
		Training/ Health
		Runner knows secret to success (Salt Lake City Tribune) Author and former Olympian Jeff Galloway says the secret to running a fast, enjoyable and injury-free marathon is walking. Galloway whose books and training programs have made him one of the nation's most popular running authorities insists that years of experience with a wide variety of runners proves that short walking breaks are the key to covering 26.2 miles without the agony often associated with the distance. Galloway advocates a ratio of walking to running that varies depending on a runner's ability and fitness.
	Palos Verdes Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Maynard eyes his Seventh Palos Verdes Marathon crown this weekend (Daily Breeze) James Maynard will be looking to capture his seventh Palos Verdes Marathon title when he defends his crown in the forty second running of the event. The Palos Verdes Marathon, which is a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon, features a winding, sloping course that boasts a steep, three mile incline between the twenty and twenty three mile marks, but also offers a cool breeze and a view of the ocean much of the way. Maynard won last year at age thirty nine, when he finished with a time of 2:41:45.