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Our friends at MarathonGuide.com have created a robust annotated start list for tomorrow’s USA Olympic Team Trials - Women’s Marathon in Boston.
You can see it at this abbreviated link: http://tinyurl.com/4mc8hy

For more news, analysis, interviews, videos, and results from the 2008 Boston Marathon and USA Olympic Women’s Marathon Trials, please visit: http://boston.thefinalsprint.com/
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World Championship Sports Network (WCSN), the premier destination of Olympic and lifestyle sports, announced today it is joining forces with adidas and MarathonGuide.com to provide a free, first-ever global webcast of the 112th Boston Marathon. Through this partnership, fans worldwide can log-on to WCSN.com to watch the live and on-demand webcast on April 21, beginning […]

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There’s a lot of track and road running available to watch this weekend, both on TV or the web:
Atlantic Coast Conference Championships
Thursday-Friday-Saturday, ACCSelect.com
(subscription needed)
Florida State is favored to win the men’s title, even without ailing star Walter Dix. Miami and Virginia Tech look to battle it out for the women’s crown.
Big South Conference Championships
Thursday-Friday-Saturday, […]

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Peter Gilmore [MarathonGuide.com] of San Mateo, CA started his year and preparation for April’s Flora London Marathon with a victory at the Surf City USA Half Marathon on Sunday.
Gilmore edged Russia’s Dmitry Safronov by 11 seconds and set a new course record despite the poor weather conditions with a time of 1:03:53.
Although the […]

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Our friends at MarathonGuide.com have drafted a fascinating report on marathon participants in the USA for 2007. Some key findings:
. 407,000 runners finished marathons in the USA in 2007, up 2.3% from 2006 despite the closing of the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon after three hours and 50 minutes and several thousand missed finishers at […]

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After leading the USA Olympic Team Trials - Men’s Marathon on Nov. 3, in New York City for the first five kilometers, marathoner Michael Wardian was back on the roads again, winning yesterday’s OBX Marathon in North Carolina in 2:24:16.
This was nothing unusual for the 33 year-old athlete from Arlington, Va., who has completed 13 […]

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Jim Fortner is a weekly, guest contributor to TheFinalSprint.com. Make sure to also check out his own personal running and advice site: “Jim2’s Running Page”.
In 1999 I posted two essays titled “The Decline of American Marathoners” & “Why Have They Declined?” on Runner’s World and Merv Competitive forums, which I subsequently updated in 2001. […]

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MarathonGuide.com has posted a very interesting and unique head-to-head analysis of the top athletes who will run Sunday’s Flora London Marathon.
To view MarathonGuide.com’s analysis, please click here.

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Episode 38 of The Final Sprint Podcast features my interview with flourishing American marathoner Peter Gilmore.
Peter, who had often been viewed as an underdog, is finally being given the respect and attention he deserves after a series of excellent performances in 2006.
At last year’s Boston Marathon he crushed his previous PR, finished an […]

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About one month before his 30th birthday, Peter Gilmore is in the midst of a 115 mile training week. That’s way down from his peak weeks of 160 miles, necessary to build the endurance and toughness to conquer the hills of the Boston Marathon, the race which has so far defined Gilmore’s rising career […]

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