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30th Annual Detroit Marathon: As With All Marathons Many Stories

The Detroit Free Press profiles a few of the participants in the 30th Annual Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon: At 6-foot-9, Norm Allgood was the biggest of the 16,000-plus participants who turned up on Sunday for the 30th running of the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon. So when he was asked why he chose the marathon for [...]

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Marathons Go Mainstream – Yes, Walking Is Acceptable

Julie Deardroff writes in The Chicago Tribune of how marathoning as a sport has changed over the years. No longer for elite athletes, everyone is encouraged to undertake the challenge: Marathons have come a long way from the 1960s, when they were so elitist that women — who couldn’t physically run 26.2 miles anyway — [...]

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