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Note on the News: Runner and Coach Overcome Adversity

Posted June 7th, 2008 at 9:00 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Road Racing

Blake Russell after running the 2008 NYRR New York Mini 10-k A very nice profile of Blake Russell and her coach Bob Sevene by journalist Liz Robbins is posted on the website of the New York Times. Russell is in New York to run tomorrow’s NYRR New York Mini 10-K along with the other two USA Olympic women’s marathon team members, Deena Kastor and Magdalena Lewy Boulet.

You can read Liz’s story at this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/sports/othersports/07runner.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin
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