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Collateral Damage
As the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings passes and runners, volunteers, spectators and the citizens of Boston look towards Monday’s race to bring at least some sense of healing and...
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Break Up The Americans!
Annie Bersagel en route to winning the Dusseldorf Marathon. Photo by Victah Sailer, PhotoRun While it didn’t garner the publicity of Meb Keflezighi’s historic win in Boston on Patriots’ Day, a week...
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Take a Step (or 9) Back for Sir Roger
The annual Cinco de Mayo parties and marketing campaigns may be winding down, but the following day offers another reason to celebrate, especially if you’re a runner, and even more so this year. This...
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Hooray for the Red, White and Runners
Every year around this time, and again in late November, I seem to have the same debate, either with myself, or with someone in the running community: Which is the bigger running holiday, Independence...
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Has Major League Baseball Finally Jumped The Shark?
For years and years, Major League Baseball’s All Star Game was just that, a game, a brief respite in the long season to give the best of America’s pastime a chance to showcase their talents in front of...
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A Midwest Midsummer Running Classic Hits 40
There was a period back around the turn of the millennium when the last week in July meant I’d be boarding a plane to fly to Davenport, Iowa, for one of the fixtures of the U.S. summer racing circuit,...
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Long May He Run
People celebrate birthdays in a thousand different ways, but once you reach prime AARP membership age, the festivities for most people, unless you’re George H. W. Bush and favor sky diving, tend to be...
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In a race against the clock, excitement is often the loser
By the time most of you read this, Shalane Flanagan will have broken Deena Kastor’s eight-year-old marathon American record of 2:19:36. Or she won’t have. And that’s the problem with this, or any...
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Hitting the Lotto, New York Style
Today is the day thousands of runners — 80,080, to be exact — have been awaiting on tenterhooks for several months. Beginning this morning, a lucky 14,326 of them will be selected in the lottery for...
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The Heat Is On In, and For, L.A.
If you’re a baseball fan, Spring Training is merely a platter of crudités to hold you until the real feast of the regular season begins next month. If college hoops is your preference, you’re still a...
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Getting Back in the Race
Whether it’s running or writing, the key to even the most moderate success is regularity. That’s because no matter how challenging a workout or an article might seem, it’s a lot harder to attack either...
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Ryan, Peyton, and Papi: Farewell to all that
Among the many story lines leading up to tomorrow’s Super Bowl, one that gained early traction was the “will he or won’t he” speculation about Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning’s possible retirement...
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Olympic Trials Marathon: Tune In, Turn Up (the heat)
Hot weather at the 2000 Olympic Trials marathon in Pittsburgh resulted in slow times and only one athlete making the Olympic squad. With the 2016 Olympic Team Trials marathon just hours away, there are...
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