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Lead Stories: Thursday, August 28, 2008

Elite Endurance Athletes Brace for The North Face Endurance Challenge Championship

Posted November 25th, 2007 at 10:25 AM by Jamal Walker

Section: News & Results, Trail / Ultra

The North Face Endurance Challenge, a four-region, nationwide running event for outdoor athletes seeking to explore their personal limits, culminates in grand fashion on the Pacific shores north of San Francisco on December 1, 2007. The event, which offers distances of 10K, Half Marathon, 50K, and 50 Miles, is also the series’ championship event, where 50-mile participants will compete for the largest prize purse in trail ultrarunning. The male and female winners will each receive $10,000.

Many of the world’s most elite endurance runners have registered for the event in hopes of going home with the big prize. The entrant list is highlighted by several members of The North Face Endurance Team as well as many other legends of the sport that have never competed toe-to-toe.

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NY Times: Gebrselassie to race in Nike NYC Half-Marathon

Posted July 11th, 2007 at 8:30 AM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field

The New York Times is reporting on their website that double Olympic gold medalist, Haile Gebrselassie, will be running the NYC Half-Marathon presented by NIKE on Sunday, Aug. 5. It will be the Ethiopian’s first ever race in New York City, and event organized by the New York Road Runners.

“I’ve been there many times,” he told veteran reporter Frank Litsky in a telephone interview from his home in Addis Ababa. “I know the roads in Central Park. I haven’t run in the New York City Marathon, but I was there to watch it three or four years ago. I’m running the Berlin Marathon this year because I won it last year, but maybe New York in the future.”

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