Marathon/Running News: 8/1/08 - 8/8/08

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Chennai Marathon
	News From: Monday, August 4, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Registrations open for Chennai Marathon (New India Press) Indian sports star Karthi Chidambaram signed the first registration form for the Chennai Marathon. Several sports figures made an appearance to kick off the Thursday opening registration festivities. Chidambaram used the opportunity to talk about the dismal physical fitness levels in India and promote physical education in schools.
Frank Maier Marathon
	News From: Monday, August 4, 2008
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Record 170 Runners Fill Annual Frank Maier Race (Juneau Empire) Taxi driver Maria Miller expected to share Douglas Island's roads with "maybe 40" runners as she approached Savikko Park in her canary yellow van during Saturday's 17th annual Frank Maier Marathon. She didn't expect the stream of 170 contestants, a race record, that lit up the roadside with colorful shoes, shorts and identification bibs.
Grizzly Marathon
	News From: Friday, August 8, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon time in Big Bear (Big Bear Grizzly) Time is running out to enter the Big Bear Marathon which is set for September 6. More than 3,500 entries have already been accepted. The Big Bear Marathon course circles the lake. While the race covers slightly rolling hills over a relatively flat course, the challenge will be running at elevations exceeding 6,900 feet.
Lake Tahoe Marathon
	News From: Friday, August 8, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Lake Tahoe Marathon offers free Kids' Fun Runs Sept. 27 (Tahoe.com) Sautrday, September 27 is dedicated to kids at the Lake Tahoe Marathon. The family-friendly event hosts a series of free Kids Fun Runs for toddlers to age 12, 1 p.m., at Pope Beach in South Lake Tahoe, California. Children race in one- year age groups from a few yards to a mile. Other events for adults include the three marathons in three days around Lake Tahoe.
	News From: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Lake Tahoe Marathon offers speed golf (Lake Tahoe News) Lake Tahoe Marathon is offering Speed Golf as part of the Lake Tahoe Marathon Race Week which includes a number of running events along with biking and triathlon competitions. Speed Golf will take place Thursday, Sept. 25 at the Tahoe Paradise Golf Course. Participants run the 18-hole course, a distance of approximately 4K, carrying three golf clubs of their choice. Their overall score is a combination of the stroke plus run time.
Lehigh Valley Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Jobes Family Running to help VIA at the Lehigh Valley Hospital Marathon (The Morning Call) Mark and Kathleen Jobes will be running Rodale sponsored Lehigh Valley Marathon to raise money for the VIA of the Lehigh Valley. The VIA is able to provide vital services that help people with disabilities live and connect in the community. The race is the only marathon and relay race in the Valley on one of the best trails in the area.
OC Marathon
	News From: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		New O.C. Marathon route makes more sense (O. C. Register) Scott Baugh, chairman of the O.C. Marathon, is nearly complete with his deal for the new course for the marathon. More coast line views and a flatter course are the goals. Baugh hopes to make O.C. a destination marathon and show off more towns along the route. The date has also been moved from January to May 3 for the 2009 edition of the 26.2 mile race.
Odds And Ends
	News From: Friday, August 8, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Sky Marathon Runner Carpenter is Springs' 17th Most Influential (The Gazette) Matt Carpenter is a name that should be on the minds of any runner. He is not an Olympic Runner but probably could be if all of the distance events were held about 14,000 feet. Carpenter has run and won so called sky-races throughout the U.S. including shattering the Western States 100 course record by over one hour.
	News From: Thursday, August 7, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Million-Dollar Marathon (Surrey Leader) William Rogers will be running from Victoria to Penticton to help stop the sexual exploitation of women.
		Marathon Man Will Be On His Bike For French Challenge In Aid of Guide Dogs For the Blind (Evening Courier) Marathon runner Ryan Barker will be raising money for a charity that helps the blind.
		Air pollution shrouds Beijing on eve of Olympics (The Times) International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge praised China for their continued efforts to fight air polution before the games. The U.S. Cyclists who landed in China with face masks on later apologized for their action. Thick smog still covers the city of Beijing despite efforts to shut down factories and halt traffic.
		Seven Marathons in Seven Days for Cirencester RFC & Local Army Personnel (Rugby Football Union) Members of Cirencester Rugby Club and Army personnel from the Gloucestershire area are embarking on a challenge of a lifetime later this month.During the marathons all participants will be wearing Army bergans containing 30 lbs in weight and they will take in routes designed by the Army.
	News From: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Olympics: Facts and Stats (Mirror) The marathon was an arbitrary distance in the Olympic Games until 1908 when it was officially set at 26 miles 385 yards to finish in front of Windsor Castle.
		Chinese hope pre-Games environmental cleanup is a fresh start (L A Times) Factories have been closed and 1.5 million cars have been ordered off the streets in preparation for the Games. Many Chinese feel this is a great start to cleaning up the smog and pollution but fear a return to old after the Olympic Games have passed
	News From: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Tamarindo Beach Marathon debuting this August 9 (Guanacaste Journal) IBP Pensiones Tamarindo Beach Marathon, certified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), will feature 10 km, a half marathon, 30 km and the Tamarindo Beach Marathon. The race will have elite athletes such as Kenyan Benard Songoka, a 2:15 marathoner. This prize money race is a sanctioned Boston Marathon qualifier.
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Olympian field lining up for Falmouth Road Race (Wicked local Yarmouth) Seventy-five internationally acclaimed runners will be lining up at the esteemed seven mile Falmouth Road Race. Runners such as 2004 Athens Games runner up Meb Keflezighi and one time world record holder Khalid Khannouchi will be joined by track star Kate ONeill and veterans Bill Rodgers and Joan Samuelsson at the start.
		Training/ Health
		Want To Run A Marathon? A New Exercise Pill Is All You Need! (ChattahBox) The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California released the results of their study on exercise endurance in lab mice. A pill was given to mice and they were able to exercise 44 percent longer than control mice. A similar pill for human consumption may be just months away.
	News From: Sunday, August 3, 2008
		Training/ Health
		Former Olympian McColgan claims today's athletes don't train enough (Scotland on Sunday) Liz McColgan, silver medallist at the 1988 Seoul and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, claims that the latest generation of British runners have been overpraised for running slower times than the finishes twenty years ago. McColgan believes that athletes have been hindered rather than helped by trendy training techniques and an emphasis on psychologists and nutritionists.
	News From: Saturday, August 2, 2008
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Marathon legend Rodgers slower, but still running at 60 (The Sun Journal) Bill Rodgers, the former American record holder in the marathon with times of with a time of 2:09:55 in 1975 and 2:09:27 in 1979, is best known for his victories in the Boston and the New York City marathons in the late 1970s. Rodgers is still running. Having set the Age-50 record at the Beach to Beacon in the race's first year by running a 32:55, the race will a have an award for the seniors division for runners over fifty.
	News From: Friday, August 1, 2008
		Training/ Health
		Pressurized treadmill eases impact on joints (Rocky Mountain News) Running in zero gravity would be great on the joints, but running on a new pressurized treadmill that effectively cuts the body's weight in half is also helpful by the impact on the knees, heels and back. Elite runners such as Kara Goucher, Dathan Ritzenhein and Paula Radcliffe have used the anti-gravity treadmills. Studies have shown that a a person can run faster in the G-Trainer at a lower weight and still get substantial aerobic benefits.
		Drugs could turn couch potatoes into athletes (New Scientist) Drug developers have created a pill that could possibly burn extra fat and stimulate "slow-twitch" fibers in muscles. In a study with mice, mice given the drug jogged longer and further than drug-free mice without training. The two drugs created AICAR and AMPK also have a simple drug test created to check for them in the event an athlete tries to use them in professional competition.
		Olympic drug cheats still ahead of the cops (Los Angeles Times) The 2008 Beijing Games will not have any more performance-enhanced than their predecessors, but violators will be chased down more readily. Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who is president of the International Olympic Committee, expects an increase in drug positives from the twenty-six at the Athens Games to about forty in Beijing. Using a performance enhancing drug such as EPO is punishable by a two-year suspension
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Yokohama to stage women's marathon to replace Tokyo (Daily Yomiuri) Yokohama will host a major women's marathon in 2009 as a replacement for the one in Tokyo whose run will end this November stated the Japan Association of Athletics Federations. the new race will be held in November and plans to invite international elite athletes. The Tokyo women's race will be discontinued after this year to incorporate women into the expansive Tokyo Marathon, which is looking to stake a place among the major marathons of the world like London, Boston and New York.
Olympics 2008 (Men)
	News From: Friday, August 8, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		Kenyans certain of winning more medals at Beijing Olympics (China View) Kenya's best performance at an Olympic Games was the 1988 Games where the country won a total of nine medals, five gold, two silver and two bronze. High hopes rest with new female 800 meter runner Pamela Jelimo and her counterpart, world champion Janeth Jepkosgei.
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		African rivals to widen rift (TheTimes) The age old rivalry between East African countries Ethiopia and Kenya will be seen at the 2008 Beijing Games in various distance running competitions. Ethiopia made their presence known when when a shoeless Abebe Bikila won the 1960 marathon gold in Rome. Kenyan dominated the distance running circuit in the 1970s.
	News From: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		From Big Bear to Beijing (Daily Press) Ryan Hall has wanted to go to the Olympics since he began his running career. The lanky Big Bear native earned his trip to Beijing with his record setting performance at the Olympic Trials. His 2 hour 6 minute and 17 second marathon race in London is the fastest marathon ever run by an American born runner.
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon runners train in Ngong Hills (The Standard) Robert "Mwafrika" Cheruiyot has been training in the dusty hills of Ngong and intensified his training over the last month prior to the Olympic Games. He joins Martin Lel and Samuel Wanjiru to lead Kenya's arsenal of runners to the 2008 Beijing Games. Martha Komu joins Catherine Ndereba and Salina Kosgei as the third female on the Kenyan squad.
	News From: Monday, August 4, 2008
		Human Interest Story
		NBC aims for marathon Olympics (Financial Times) NBC Universal who has purchased the rights to air the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will feature an astounding 3,600 hours of coverage over the seventeen days of the games. NBC's owners General Electric paid a grand sum of $894 million for the rights. Although many are hopeful that viewership will be increased for this Olympics, rumors are circulating that GE may try to unload NBC Universal after the games.
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Hall gets Olympic send-off (Inland Valley Daily Builletin) The community of Big Bear Lake, California gathered to give top U.S. marathoner Ryan Hall a farewell ceremony prior to his departure to Beijing where he will compete in the marathon at the 2008 Olympic Games. Hall and family will not be in attendance for the opening ceremony, but will watch from the Olympic village before flying to the coastal town of Dalian to begin his training leaving him some days to train prior to the men's marathon on August 24th.
		Human Interest Story
		Smog smothers Beijing (Evening Standard) A heavy blanket of smog covers the sky in Beijing just days before the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games. Visibility was down to a minimum and locals were adorned with face masks to protect their lungs and eyes from the thick stinging air.