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Leo Manzano wins Drake Relays Mile (USA 1 Mile Road Champs)

DES MOINES (USA, Apr 22): The Drake Relays continued on Tuesday with the Grand Blue Mile (also US road mile championships). Winners Leo Manzano 4:05.71 and Heather Kampf 4:34.62. On the podium also Pat Casey 4:05.81 and Garret Heath 4:06.39 and on the women side Katie Mackey 4:35.30 and Sara Hall 4:35.81.

Leo Manzano, photo by PhotoRun.net

(Editor’s note: Leo Manzano, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist has had a busy weekend. On Saturday, April 19, he took third in the Boston Mile, and on Tuesday, at the USA Road Mile Champs, in Des Moines, Iowa, Leo Manzano took first!)

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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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