05.06.2008 12:08 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Given the size and proximity of the OneAmerican 500 Festival Mini Marathon, it was safe to assume that the area would be well-represented.
The Mini Marathon actually is a half-marathon in Indianapolis and is the largest half in the United…

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04.20.2008 8:41 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis’ Colleen Casey blew her preordained race tactic of starting slow and picking up the pace in the second half of the Olympic Marathon trials Sunday in Boston. She found herself near the pack around icon Joan Benoit Samuelson,…

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04.10.2008 12:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
While your muscles are recovering from the weekend’s exertion, you could put your brain to work on your next move. After training all those weeks for the marathon or half-marathon, it would be a shame to let that fitness slip…

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04.08.2008 9:53 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you ran Sunday in the marathon, relay or half-marathon, today — Tuesday — is likely to be your worst day. Sore. Stiff. Hunched over. That’s good, the experts say. It’s a sign that your body is healing and that…

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04.07.2008 5:20 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kristin Armstrong _ marathoner, mom, author, woman of faith and, oh, yeah, ex-wife of Lance Armstrong _ seems to have enjoyed her visit and run in the half-marathon. Check out her report.

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04.07.2008 9:08 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here are a couple quick observations from the Go! Fitness Weekend. We want to get the ball rolling on comments from the weekend. What you have to say is way more important than what I have to say.
Evidence of…

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04.06.2008 4:15 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Could the organizers and the nearly 15,000 runners have asked for a better day than Sunday to run a marathon, half-marathon or marathon relay? With temperatures in the low 40s at the start and nearing 60 at noon, hardly.
Just…

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04.01.2008 12:04 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Many people’s imaginations don’t stretch to running a mile, much less a marathon, much less a marathon on an uneven trail, much less a trail marathon while wearing a 35-pound pack, much less winning such a marathon. But St. Louisan…

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03.25.2008 10:52 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis native Tony Reed, executive director of the National Black Marathoners Association, will return to St. Louis to compete in the Go! St. Louis marathon.
We reintroduced St. Louis to one of its most successful native sons a couple…

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03.24.2008 2:06 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With less than two weeks before the Go! St. Louis Family Fitness Weekend, it’s no surprise that the half-marathon, scheduled for April 6, is nearing its maximum of 10,000 participants. The growth in popularity of the half-marathon, 13.1 miles, is part…

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