Kim Smith, photo by PhotoRun.net
NEW BEDFORD (USA, Mar 16): Race Results Weekly informs that as has become her tradition, New Zealand’s Kim Smith uses New Bedford Half Marathon (37th) as her London Marathon tune-up, winning the women’s contest by more than two minutes in 1:11:09. Former Boston University runner Andrea Walkonen ran a very solid personal best of 1:13:13 in second place. Ruben Sanca as the best man clocked 1:05:52.
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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