Blog: Here's a funny story from South Africa about a criminal who tried to pretend he was a jogger so that he wouldn't get caught by everyone that was after him.
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Blog: This is a really good article about Mirsada Buric, an Olympic athlete from Bosnia. Back in 1992, she spent 13 days in a prison camp, then resumed long-distance running in the sniper-targeted streets of Sarajevo and made it to the Olympics.
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Each morning around 5, the girl felt her parents shaking her awake.
“Time for your run.”
Leaving the family’s mud house, Mary Chepkemboi ran in her bare feet and a frock along red dirt roads in the Nandi District, past the rolling fields of tea and maize, coming home to milk the cows and prepare breakfast, then running off again, this time to school.
Eventually, Chepkemboi took her place among the first generation of elite female Kenyan runners. By the mid-1980s, she became an African champion. She also inspired a younger brother, Bernard Lagat, who earned two Olympic medals for Kenya, became a United States citizen in 2004, won the 2007 world championship at 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters, and established himself as a favorite for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
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Blog: On May 17th, more than 1,600 runners from around the world ran the The Great Wall of China Marathon. It was the ninth year for the race, which is held in Tianjin, a rural province three hours from Beijing.
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Blog: Does this sound like a race you'd want to run? Runners race up 61 floors, covering more than 1,000 steps.
Enjoy the video
Blog: Here's a comparison of the Nike+ Sport Band System and the Adidas miCoach.
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World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe said she remains
"upbeat and positive" about being ready for the Beijing Olympics
despite having developed a hip injury.
Radcliffe developed pain in her left hip two weeks ago and, although it was not picked up in an original scan, a second scan showed that the gluteus minimus muscle had pulled away and put pressure on the bone.
The 34-year-old is now using crutches in order to relieve the pressure on her hip and hopes by resting now she will be ready for the Olympics in August.
Radcliffe will have another scan at the end of next week.
Radcliffe's agent, Sian Masterton, said: "Obviously this is not ideal in an Olympic year but Paula is upbeat and positive that by resting for a week or two now she will give herself the best chance of being ready for Beijing."
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Brian Meeker might be the luckiest of the 10,410 runners who competed Sunday in the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon, Half Marathon & 10K.
It wasn't the fact that Meeker, 43, of Bay Village, set his personal best in the 10K race (47:36).
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Every morning at dawn Nadir al-Masri runs circles around a trackless field at an empty stadium in the occupied West Bank, his coach clocking distances and timing him on a stopwatch.
The lack of a proper track is just one of many obstacles the 28-year-old long distance runner has encountered on his journey from the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip to the Beijing Summer Olympics.
"I came to Jericho because I cannot train in Gaza with the political circumstances there. I faced huge problems in coming here," he said one morning after a long workout.
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Blog: Even though this has nothing to do with running, you need to check it out. This guy is flying with jet-powered wings.
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