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Air Force Marathon
	News From: Thursday, May 22, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Air Force Marathon participants save money by registering early (Air Force Material Command) May 31st will mark the cut off date for the 65 dollar entry for the Air Force Marathon. Molly Louden announced that the rates will go as high as 95 dollar up through September 20th. Prices for the 1/2 marathon and 10K are also scheduled to increase through out the summer.
	News From: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Wright State students are getting involved in Air Force Marathon (The Guardian Online) Wright State will be a major part in the 2008 Air Force Marathon in hosting a 5-kilometer race being held on Friday, September 19, one day before the actual marathon itself. WSU President Dr. David Hopkins says it will benefit Wright Patterson employees and students alike.
Bayshore Marathon
	News From: Sunday, May 25, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Reader sets record in Bayshore (Record Eagle) Defending Champion Marybeth Reader broke the Traverse City State Bank Bayshore Marathon course record by over two minutes 2:46:23. Surprised with her performance after battling plantar fascitis recently, Reader will use her winnings and time bonus to send her daughter to summer camp. Runner-up Janet Becker finished in a 2:59:17 and Val Thomasman was third in a 3:05:24. In the men's race Nick Allen defended his title to win in 2:21:46, followed by Matt Fecht in 2:23:39 and Kyle Baker in 2:33:02.
Blue Nose International Marathon
	News From: Thursday, May 22, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Blue Nose Marathon blues (The Nova Scotia News) Race officials of the Blue Nose Marathon are taking an official review of the latest edition of the race. Multiple complaints stemming from relay runners being jammed together and not being able to make the exchange have led to a complete race review.
Brookings Marathon
	News From: Thursday, May 22, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Paul Christian: Wrong turn costs Chris Koch the victory in Brookings Marathon (Postbulletin) Rosie Ruiz might be the most famous person to have been disqualified from a race. She unofficially won the Boston Race in 2 hours 31 minutes and 56 minutes but was later disqualified for not running the full 26.2 mile race. Chris Koch crossed the line at the Brookings marathon as the apparent winner only to be shocked that he was disqualified for zigging instead of zagging.
Buffalo Marathon
	News From: Sunday, May 25, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Ethiopian stars win Buffalo Marathon (The Buffalo News) Habtamu Bekele won the Buffalo Marathon in 2:26:05. Jason Lokwatom was second in 2:26:21 and Paul Simboli was third in a 2:27:06. Meserte Kotu took the womenâs race in a course-record time of 2:43:10. Champion Jessica Allen was second in 2:54:48 and Jennifer Boerner was third in 2:58:14.
		Bekele, Kotu win Buffalo Marathon (The Buffalo News) Ethiopians wont he men's and women's races at the 2008 Buffalo Marathon. Habtamu Bekele won in 2:26:05 followed by Jason Lokwatom second in 2:26:21. Meserte Kotu took the women's title in a course-record time of 2:43:08. Kotu was more than 10 minutes over defending champion Jessica Allen.
Coeur d' Alene Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Marathon runners clean up in Coeur dAlene (Castlegarnews.com) There were two hundred seventy eight runners in the 2008 Coeur dAlene Marathon. Many participants are repeat runners.
Edinburgh Marathon
	News From: Monday, May 26, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Edinburgh Marathon man leads home from the front (The Scotsman) Paul McNamara, an Irish professional cross country champion, won the 2008 Albert Bartlett Edinburgh Marathon in his first serious attempt at the distance in a 2:25:06. Nathaniel Williams was runner up in a 2:25:33 and Michael Green was third in 2:26:18. Pauline Powell won the women's race two minutes ahead of Karen Hazlitt who took second in 2:47:57. Gill Laithwaite took third in 2:52:24.
	News From: Sunday, May 25, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		McNamara wins Edinburgh Marathon (RTE Sport) Paul McNamara won the 2008 Edinburgh International Marathon in 2:25:03. McNamara, a former athletics scholarship student at Providence College in America having recently returned to Ireland and competitive racing, was aiming for a sub 2:20 time.
	News From: Thursday, May 22, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Get on your marks as 13,000 gear up for biggest Edinburgh marathon (Scotsman News) Doubling the prize money has attracted more than just a few top runners to the Edinburgh Marathon, it has doubled the over all participation. Nearly 13,000 runners will run the 26.2 mile race and raise of 3 million euros for local charities.
Madison Marathon (2000 and prior)
	News From: Sunday, May 25, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Madison Marathon has a ring to it for one couple (The Capital Times) The time was right for romance at the Madison Marathon finish line Sunday when Dan Hogan met Gaby Canseco with a small jewelry box and a big question: "Will you marry me?" Hogan chose the finish line of their first race together after the couple tried time and again to run past races only to be thwarted by one thing and another. On Sunday, he raced to the finish line to be there waiting for her and she said yes.
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Reusser repeats as Madison Marathon winner (The Capital Times) Ricky Reusser won his second straight Madison Marathon in a 2:31:42 just under three minutes ahead of runner-up Eric Pilling. Aimee Kurion, wife of the defending champion and fifth place male finisher, won the women's marathon in a 2:39:16.
Med-City Marathon
	News From: Monday, May 26, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Personal best brings glory for female winner of Med-City Marathon (Post Bulletin.com) Kara Arzamendia won the women's race of the 2008 Med-City Marathon in a personal best time of 3:12:24. It was a family affair for Arzamendia. Her cousin ran the marathon and two cousins, her husband and father teamed to run the four-person relay. Arzamendia finished eighth overall.
	News From: Sunday, May 25, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Med-City winner's method unorthodox but effective (Post Bulletin.com) Despite partying until eleven o'clock the night before the marathon, Mark Ott won the Med-City Marathon in 2:54:34, the second slowest winning time in the thirteen year history of the race. Ott runs a marathon per month and has won two of his last three races. Ron Giles finished second in 2:58:46 while Stephen Weigand was third in 2:58:58.
	News From: Saturday, May 24, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Former Med-City Marathon director will have new view of the race (Post Bulletin.com) Wally Arnold, former race director of the Med-City Marathon, will be running the Med-City Half Marathon if not the relay for the marathon. The Arnolds founded the race 13 years and nursed it along through many course changes and all types of weather conditions. The YMCA has taken over, with Teresa Byland as the new race director.
	News From: Friday, May 23, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Bank on it: There will be a new Med-City Marathon champion (Post Bulletin.com) Med-City Relays and Marathon in their thirteenth year will have a new winner of its men's race. Never in the 12-year history of the race has a champion repeated in back-to-back performances. With defending champion Nick Payne who won last year in a 2:41:15, battling a leg injury, he opted for the half instead of the full marathon.
New York City Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		With Hectic Schedule and Two Young Kids, Road Runners CEO Wittenberg Learns to Pace Herself (Wall Street Journal) Mary Wittenberg, President and Chief Executive of New York Road Runners and Race Director for the New York City Marathon, measures how well she's doing her job by how many road races she runs. An ex-corporate lawyer and mother of two, Wittenberg has a running resume that includes a win of the 1987 Marine Corps Marathon finishing in 2:44 earning a place in the 1988 Olympic marathon trials. Although her professional running career was ended as a result of these knee injuries that kept her from the Trials, she still manages to run several races each year.
Odds And Ends
	News From: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
		Training/ Health
		Triathlons/Marathons on the Rise, Due to Intensive Group-Oriented Training Programs (Mercury News) Despite the small number of competitors, interest in endurance sports is rapidly growing especially with a number of local clubs and organizations helping train and motivate competitors. One of the largest organizations that train athletes for endurance events is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training program, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. In exchange for offering between three to four months of training with expert coaches for a marathon, triathlon or bicycle century ride, participants raise money to fund blood cancer research and patient services.
		China promises life bans for drugs cheats (Times Online UK) China has followed the United Kingdom's lead in imposing automatic life bans on athletes who use performance enhancing drugs and has gone farther banning dopers from taking part in all competitions, not just the Olympic Games. This was perhaps a reaction to previous allegations about doping in the past as well as recent news about poor coaching and dwindling optimism surrounding the 2008 Beijing Games.
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Kogo and Mikitenko take 10k victories on Londons proposed 2012 marathon course (IAAF) Micah Kogo and 2008 London Marathon winner Irina Mikitenko won the inaugural 'BUPA London 10000' which utilized the last ten kilometers of the proposed 2012 London Olympics. Kogo beat Zersenay Tadese, the reigning double World Road Running champion and 2008 London Marathon men's race winner Martin Lel, winning the UK All-Comers Record for the distance in 28:08. In the women's race Mikitenko bested the lead pack consisting of Aniko Kalovics, Hungarian record holder over 5km, 10km and marathon, and Great Britain Olympic hopeful Mara Yamauchi to win the race in 32:02.
	News From: Monday, May 26, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Mutisya wins Mombasa race (The Daily Nation) Peter Mutisya in his first victory won the Mombasa Marathon in 2:12:46. Motira Dismas finished second in a 2:13:35 and Patrick Wachira was third in 2:14.13. In the women's race Phyllis Chelagat won in 2:49:16, Sylvia Chemeli finished second in 2:49:18 and Susan Chemtai was third in 2:54:33.
	News From: Friday, May 23, 2008
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		For Asthmatic Marathoner Gebrselassie, the 10K Will Do (International Herald Tribune) After deciding against running the marathon in Beijing because of concerns about air pollution there, Gebrselassie is seeking to win a place on the Ethiopian 10,000-meter team for the Olympics with a sterling race at the FBK Games in Hengelo. Qualification would set him up for a unique Olympic triple after winning the 10,000 at Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000. He will certainly have plenty of opposition, since the Olympic silver medalist Sileshi Sihine and Abebe Dinkesa are other top Ethiopians in the race, and they could drive him on toward a great time.
Olympics 2008 (Men)
	News From: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Swiss star Viktor Roethlin selected to run Olympic marathon (International Herald Tribune) Viktor Roethlin won a World Championships bronze in Osaka, Japan, last August and a silver at the 2006 Europeans in Goteborg, Sweden. The 33 year old will be going to his third games at the Beijing Olympics which will run from August 8-24. Roethlin ran 2 hours, 7 minutes, 23 seconds to win the Tokyo Marathon in February for his best time this year.
	News From: Monday, May 26, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		U.S. runner slams Canadian Olympic criteria (London Free Press) Following the Ottawa Marathon, American Jon Little criticized Athletics Canada for sending faster runners who were more recently naturalized as citizens rather than sending qualified individuals to represent the country at the Beijing Olympics. Canadian men marathoners needed to run a time of 2:11:31 in either 2006 or 2007 (the "A+ standard") or 2:11:38 (the "A standard") since Feb. 28, 2007 to qualify for Beijing. There is also a B standard of 2:14 mentioned in the general qualifying criteria, but it does not apply in the specific rules for qualifying for Beijing. Women needed to run an A+ standard of 2:27:35 or an A standard of 2:29:08.
Olympics 2008 (Women)
	News From: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Star runner Sun disappointed by poor showing at Bird's Nest (China Daily) Sun Yingjie, former Chinese long distance running star returned from Olympic ban, failed to qualify for he 2008 Beijing Games in the 5,000 meters as she ran the Bird's Nest Race in China. In 2003, Sun became the first Chinese woman and fourth woman in the world to break the 2:20 minute time in a marathon, finishing the Beijing Marathon in 2:19:39. The veteran runner was crushed when she learned she could not run in the Olympics and when she heard she was out of the China Open as well.
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Johnson will have her work cut out at Freihofer's 5Km (IAAF) Two-time defending champion of the Freihofer's Run for Women Benita Johnson will go up against a strong African women's field. Many of her top competitors dominated the Bolder Boulder field which includes champion Millicent Gathoni and runner-up Amane Gobena. Event Director George Regan expects a fast race.
	News From: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Yamauchi Hopes for Home Comforts (SportingLife) Mara Yamauchi has revealed she has asked UK Athletics if she can train at home in Tokyo instead of heading to the Olympic preparation camp in Macau. Yamauchi, a former Foreign and Commonwealth Office diplomat who is married to a Japanese native, became a full-time athlete two years ago. Yamauchi won the Osaka Marathon earlier this year and is the second fastest female runner on Great Britain's Olympic Team.
		Haining out on limb as Radcliffe battles injury (Guardian UK) With world Record Holder Paula Radcliffe's stress fracture on the minds of the British who remain hopeful to see a countryman medal, Olympic marathon women's team alternate Hayley Haining is on reserve should Radcliffe need to drop out. Radcliffe is attempting to train through injury, but Haining who resume her own day to day activities - testing the blood samples of sick animals in her job as a veterinary pathologist - has been quietly marathon training on the side.
	News From: Sunday, May 25, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		What next for Paula? (BBC Sport UK) World Record Holder and Great Britain's favorite to medal at the 2008 Beijing Games suffered a blow upon the discovery of a stress fracture of her femur. Having been sidelined from a toe injury earlier this year, many wonder if Radcliffe has had adequate training going into the Olympic marathon, a competition she dropped out of at the 2004 Athens Games. Radcliffe will follow doctors regimens, but seems determined to push through the pain.