Marathon/Running News: 7/19/10 - 7/26/10

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News From: Monday, July 26, 2010
	Carrollton Festival of Races
		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.
	Cities Marathon
		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
		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.
	Odds And Ends
		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.
		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.
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		'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.
	Pikes Peak Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Belfield's Brendan Davies Plans To Conquer The 42.2KM Pike's Peak Marathon (The Express) Brendan Davies has been working out in an altitude chamber that sucks out oxygen and replaces it with nitrogen as he prepares to run the Pike's Peak Marathon.
	The San Francisco Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Palo Alto First Timer Breaks San Francisco Marathon Record (CBS5) Keith Bechtol ran 2 hours 23 minutes and 28 seconds to win the San Francisco Marathon in his debut marathon race.
		Stanford Student Wins San Francisco Marathon (Mercury News.com) Keith Bechtol ran his first road marathon in San Francisco and won with a time of 2 hours 23 minutes and 28 seconds.
		Human Interest Story
		San Francisco Marathon Attracts 24,000 Runners (The Epoch Times) More than twenty-four thousand runners participated in the San Francisco Marathon which has been held annually since 1977
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		San Francisco Marathon Won By Keith Bechtol (Mens Spot Daily News) Keith Bechtol won the San Francisco Marathon with a time of 2 hour 23 minutes and 38 seconds in his debut road marathon.
		San Francisco Marathon: 24,000 Unique Tales In 26 Miles (San Francisco Chronicle) From the winners to the finishers, runners in the San Francisco Marathon have stories of triumph and even a record setting day.
News From: Sunday, July 25, 2010
	Odds And Ends
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Giro Di Castelbuono - Small Race Packs A Big Wallop (Race Results Weekly) Despite being Italy's most competitive summer road race, the Giro Podistico Internazationale di Castelbuono is the country's smallest due to the difficulty of the course.
News From: Saturday, July 24, 2010
	Odds And Ends
		Human Interest Story
		No Relief In Sight For Runners (Stamford Advocate) The tough summer running conditions are causing some runners to reconsider their sport.
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Ryan Hall Wins Bix 7 (Quad City Times) Ryan Hall moved to the front of the pack near the five mile point in the Bix 7 to be the first native born American to win the seven mile race in the last 19 years.
		Hall & Koll Win Usa 7-Mile Titles At The Bix (Race Results Weekly) Ryan Hall captured his first USA road running win since the Olympic Trials Marathon in 2007 in New York City, while 2010 NCAA 5000m and 10,000m champion Lisa Koll won the women's race.
	The San Francisco Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Three Asian American Women To Participate In San Francisco Marathon (Asian Week) Runners will fill the roadways of the Gold Gate Bridge this Sunday. A multitude of reasons inspire people to traverse the twenty-six point two mile course.
		Unregistered San Francisco Marathon 'Bandits' A Problem (San Francisco Chronicle) Race organizers know that there will be unregistered runners on the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday. These so-called 'bandits' are becoming more of a problem as races are selling out.
News From: Friday, July 23, 2010
	Beirut International Marathon
		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
		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.
	Deseret News Classic Marathon
		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.
	Houston Marathon
		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.
	London Marathon
		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.
	Odds And Ends
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Elite Fields Set for Bix 7 (Race Results Weekly) Officials for July 24th's Quad-City Times Bix 7 have released the lineups for the mens and womens fields, headed by American half-marathon record holder Ryan Hall and 2010 NCAA 5000m and 10,000m champion Lisa Koll.
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Name Confusion Persists: Cheruiyot Or Cheruiyot? (Race Results Weekly) The Robert K. Cheruiyot competing in Monday's 85th Giro Podistico di Castelbuono will be 2010 Boston Marathon champion Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, not to be confused with former Boston Marathon champion Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot.
	Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon Donates $750,000 To Memorial And Museum (NewsOK) The Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum received a check for three-quarter of a million dollars from the OKC Memorial Marathon.
	Planet Adventure Trail Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		First Trail Marathon In Indy At Eagle Creek Park (Indy Star) The inaugural Planet Adventure Eagle Creek Trail Marathon will kick off on October 3, 2010. The event is limited to 500 participants.
	The San Francisco Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		2010 San Francisco Marathon Street Closures On Sunday (San Francisco Chronicle) The San Francisco Marathon will be held this coming Sunday and road closures will cause detours throughout the city.