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Our media room, November 1, 2009, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 36th
The pack of elite women are off, hitting 5k in 17:53, with six in the front pack of 29 elite women starters. Three women nearly went down, Kosgei, Yuri, and Lewy Boulet.
I am covering event live on runblogrun.com on twitter.
Women hit 5k in 17:53, 10k in 35:15, 15k in 52:38, ten miles in 56:27, hitting halfway in 1:14:04-slower than last year! In women’s lead pack was Radcliffe, Petrova, Daunay, Tulu, Kosgei, with Lewy Boulet dropping back fifteen seconds at 11 miles. Women hit halfway in 1:14:04.
On men’s side, 5k hit in 15:51, 10k in 31:04, with pack of forty. Down to seventeen, with Ryan Hall, Meb Keflizighi, Hendrick Raamala, Jouad Gharib, Bolata Asmeron, Jorge Torres in lead pack.
Men hit halfway in 1:05:07.
I have been on twitter, at twitter.com/runblogrun, updating the event from the first steps to the winning steps of top men and women. I will follow up with a how the race was won, and a news item. Thanks for following our coverage!
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Larry Eder
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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