Marathon/Running News: 5/13/08 - 5/20/08

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Belfast City Marathon
	News From: Thursday, May 15, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Make allowances for Belfast marathon (Belfast Telegraph) Several angry residents have been downplaying the economic impact of the Belfast Marathon and merely complaining about one day of inconvenience. The latest involves someone who lives on the marathon route along Antrim Road.
Blue Nose International Marathon
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		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
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		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
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		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.
		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.
Cleveland Marathon
	News From: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
		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.
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		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.
		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.
	News From: Friday, May 16, 2008
		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.
Colfax Marathon
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		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.
		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.
	News From: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Colfax Colorado Marathon celebrates Colfax Avenue (Your Hub) The Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon is ready to roll on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 6 a.m. in City Park with a redesigned course, an exciting charity partners program, and 5,000 athletes. The days events include the 26.2 mile marathon, half marathon and the 5 person relay. The course will run on the famous Colfax Avenue.
Delaware Marathon
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		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.
	News From: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Delaware Marathon-right time, right race (Delaware Online) Delaware Marathon which is celebrating its fifth anniversary has reached its registration quota at over six hundred and fifty runners. Returning to the race are the top three finishers from 2007, Kevin Beugless who won in a 2:39:16; runner-up Marco Capelli with a 2:43:27 finisher and Eric Makovsky who was third in a 2:45:57. The race is a flat four loop course.
Edinburgh Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		City MSP gets on his marks for Edinburgh marathon (Scottsman) MSP Gavin Brown will be running for personal fitness and for his chosen Charity: Bethany. He is calling out other MSP's to run the relay with him next year in an effort to make everyone more aware of fitness and health
Fargo Marathon
	News From: Saturday, May 17, 2008
		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.
	News From: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Fargo Marathon Organizers Concerned About iPod Usage and Safety (Valley News) Mark Knutson, race director of the Fargo Marathon says that iPods will be allowed in his race. The prominent race director stated that he does not have enough volunteers to take away the iPods and enforce the rules.
Great Wall Marathon
	News From: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
		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.
	News From: Friday, May 16, 2008
		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.
Green Bay Marathon
	News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
		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.
	News From: Saturday, May 17, 2008
		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.
Journeys Marathon
	News From: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Sixty-eight-year-old man dies during marathon in Eagle River (Chicago Tribune) Robert Zapranoff collapsed during the 2008 Journey's Marathon. There is no word of cause of death. Online records kept by the marathon say Zapranoff completed the race last year.
		Man dies during Journeys Marathon (Daily News) A call over the police radio announced that a runner was down. A 11:21 am Robert Zapranoff, 68, of Mercer, collapsed while running the Journeys Marathon. He was taken to Eagle River Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead by Vilas County Deputy Coroner Mike Gough. Connie Heeg, executive race director, stated that the death during the Journeys marathon was the first ever in the event.
London Marathon
	News From: Friday, May 16, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		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.
		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.
Odds And Ends
	News From: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
		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.
	News From: Saturday, May 17, 2008
		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.
	News From: Thursday, May 15, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Olympic Marathon Runner Lee Troop in Stalking Court Battle (Herald Sun) Troop, the 35 year old Olympic Marathoner slapped a restraining order on Phil Johnson for making harassing phone calls to Troop and his coach of ten years, Olympian Steve Moneghetti.
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Tune to attack One Hour World record in Ostrava (IAAF) 2008 Boston Marathon Winner Dire Tune will attempt to set a One Hour World record. Tune plans to run more than the 18,340m within in a sixty minute period, a feat achieved by Tegla Loroupe back in 1998 in Borgholzhausen, Germany. This is the same track where Haile broke the record.