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Lead Stories: Friday, December 5, 2008

Weather Channel to Sponsor Atlanta Marathon

Posted March 18th, 2008 at 2:15 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons

The Atlanta Track Club announced today that the popular cable television channel, The Weather Channel (TWC), will now be the title sponsor of the Atlanta Marathon & Half-Marathon held on Thanksgiving Day. This year’s race is set for Thursday, November 27 in Atlanta, will be the 47th running of the event.

TWC will produce and air segments profiling five runners training for the race in different geographic areas (and climates) throughout the USA. The cable channel will also use it’s website, weather.com to display additional information about the race, including training profiles, video vignettes, blogs from the featured runners, running tips, running calculators, and local route maps. This is the first sponsorship for TWC in the running industry.
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New Finish Line For Peachtree Road Race

Posted February 20th, 2008 at 2:45 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results

Atlanta’s unprecedented drought had forced city officials to restrict the use of Piedmont Park, leaving the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race high and dry with no finish area. The massive July 4 event is the world’s largest 10-K.

But today, race organizers announced that they had found a new finish area for the 39th edition of the event. The Atlanta Track Club, the not-for-profit which founded and organizes the race, announced that the race will now have one additional turn and will finish at the intersection of Juniper and Ponce de Leon in midtown Atlanta. The field of over 55,000 runners will then walk on city streets to the Civic Center parking area where the awards stage, family meeting area, and sponsor village will be located.
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RUNNING STATS
Closes Its Doors

Posted November 16th, 2007 at 9:15 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results

After nearly 23 years, RUNNING STATS, has ceased publication, according to editor and publisher, Paul Christman.

“As your diarist’s tenure with Running Stats draws to a close, it’s been a good run,” Christman wrote on his website in a brief farewell message where he thanked his many correspondents.

RUNNING STATS was for years a paper newsletter sent through the mail and was the only timely source of elite distance running results. Christman relied on the support of race directors who not only purchased his newsletter but paid for his travel to their events to provide coverage. Christman once told me that he had brought out to the Honolulu Marathon 18 times, one of distance running’s all-time great records.

Although many relied on Christman for results, even more looked forward to his grand writing style and witty headlines. Like when Flomena Chepchirchir won the recent half-marathon in Dordrecht, Christman’s headline read, “FLO CHARTS ANOTHER.”
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