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• Two Runners Die After Finishing Marathon

  There were two fatalities among the 37,899 finishers of Sunday’s New York City Marathon, according to the New York Road Runners, the organizer of the event. Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:01 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, New York Road Runners Club, Defibrillators

• Radcliffe Reasserts Her Supremacy

  Battling recent stress fractures and a pair of Olympic disappointments, Paula Radcliffe of Britain won New York for the third time in 2:23:56 seconds. Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:28 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, Radcliffe, Paula, Olympic Games (2014)

• Kenyans Bond Over Running and Trees

  Kenyan marathon runners Hosea Rotich, a forest ranger, and Simon Wangai, a former lumberman, met when Rotich spotted Wangai cutting down a tree in a protected forest. Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:39 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, Kenya, Forests and Forestry

• Marathon Oddity Leads to Two First-Place Finishers

  Arien O’Connell was not initially declared the winner of the San Francisco Women’s Marathon on Sunday despite having beaten every other runner. Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:16 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, San Francisco (Calif)

• Another Hot and Steamy Marathon in Chicago

  Evans Cheruiyot of Kenya proved the fastest on Sunday, winning in 2 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds, and Lidiya Grigoryeva of Russia won the women’s race in 2:27:17. Posted Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:51 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, Grigoryeva, Lidiya

• Radcliffe to Run New York City Marathon

  Paula Radcliffe, the 2007 New York City Marathon champion and world-record holder, will attempt to put a year of struggles behind her when she returns to New York to defend her title. Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:57 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, New York Road Runners Club, Radcliffe, Paula

• Rested Gebrselassie Tops His World Record

  Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia broke his own record in the Berlin marathon on Sunday and became the first person the run the race in under 2 hours 4 minutes. Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:36 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Gebrselassie, Haile, Marathon Running, Berlin (Germany), Records and Achievements

• 30 Seconds: With Kerri Strug

  Kerri Strug, who made her Olympic debut at 14 in the 1992 Barcelona Games, is now 31 and has run four marathons and plans to run her first New York City Marathon on Nov. 2. Posted Saturday, September 27, 2008 2:59 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Olympic Games, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, Gymnastics, Strug, Kerri

• Marathon Training: At War With Injuries

  It’s the fall marathon season, as runners around the world know all too well, and as the training miles pile up, countless runners are feeling unexpected aches and pains — and desperation. Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 1:54 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, Exercise

• Two Notable Runners Edged Out at the Fifth Avenue Mile

  On Sunday Bernard Lagat and Shannon Rowbury were edged out of their respective races by Nick Willis and Lisa Dobriskey. Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:40 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, Lagat, Bernard, Willis, Nick, Rowbury, Shannon, Fifth Avenue Mile, Dobriskey, Lisa

• Track Star Goucher Will Run in New York City Marathon

  Kara Goucher said she would run in the New York City Marathon on Nov. 2, her first marathon, and hopes to become the first American woman since 1992 to reach the podium. Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:15 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Track and Field, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, Goucher, Kara

• Youth Displays Staying Power in Half-Marathon

  Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won the women’s race, and 20-year-old Tadesse Tola of Ethiopia placed first in the men’s. Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:19 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, Central Park (NYC), Tola, Tadesse, Ndereba, Catherine

• New York Race Is Final Run-Through for Hurt Marathoner

  On Sunday Dathan Ritzenhein will be racing in a strong international field and before 10,000 recreational runners at the third annual NYC Half-Marathon. Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 11:34 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Olympic Games, Marathon Running, New York City, Ritzenhein, Dathan

• Fitness: Sometimes Half Is Better Than Whole

  Half-marathons have been growing in the last five years, partly due to an influx of newer runners who consider the half a friendlier challenge than the marathon. Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:39 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon

• A U.S. Olympic Marathoner and Her Coach

  Blake Russell is in New York with her United States women’s marathon teammates to run the Mini 10K, the women’s-only race held in Central Park on Saturday. Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 3:39 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Running, Marathon Running, Russell, Blake