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LONDON (GBR): Mo Farah will be part of the second group of paced athletes at Sunday’s London Marathon, informs telegraph.co.uk. His coach Alberto Salazar decided that he will be in the group which will be paced to the halfway mark in 62:15 (still under course record pace), 30 seconds behind the lead group led by Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie. Dave Bedford revealed that Farah’s group will be made up of 7 athletes, with the lead group made up of 6.

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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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