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Sponsored by:

Kilimanjaro Marathon, Half & 5K, Tanzania, Africa, Feb. 27, 05 Web: http://www.kathyloperevents.com/kilimanjaro

Hermes Cleveland 10 Miler, Fleet Feet 5K & Cleveland Kid's Run, April 24 Web: http://www.hermescleveland.com/

Great Wall Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K, May 21, 2005 Web: http://www.kathyloperevents.com/gwm/ Video 2003: http://michiganrunner.tv/2003greatwall/

Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon & 10K, May 22, 2005 Distances: Marathon, Half-marathon and 10K Web: http://www.clevelandmarathon.com Video 2004: http://michiganrunner.tv/2004clevelandmarathon/index.html

Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, September 25,2005- Presented by Adidas Web: http://torontowaterfrontmarathon.com/ Video 2004: http://michiganrunner.tv/2004scotiabank_toronto/index.html

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Editor: Jennie McCafferty Past issues are available at http://michiganrunner.net/news/

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__/ QUOTE OF THE WEEK

__/ MICHIGAN RUNNER TV: AN INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN SELL

__/ MICHIGAN RUNNER TV: THE FROZEN FOOT RACE WITH BILL RODGERS

__/ OFF TOPIC, BUT IMPORTANT (WE'RE JOURNALISTS): HIGH SCHOOL KIDS DON'T UNDERSTAND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

_/ SUPER BOWL 5K, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6

__/ ROAD RUNNERS SEEKS RISING RUNNING STARS

__/ GOOD NEWS AND BAD ABOUT RUNNING ON TV:

-- TRACK & FIELD FANS UPSET WITH ESPN'S COVERAGE OF REEBOK INDOOR GAMES

-- OLN TO TELEVISE BOSTON MARATHON

__/ ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RITE AID CLEVELAND MARATHON & 10K TO BE DISCUSSED AT RUNNING USA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

__/ GREAT PERFORMANCES

__/ MRN ON THE ROAD: MIAMI, KEY WEST, ORLANDO

__/ MRN'S UPCOMING SCHEDULE

__/ RACE CALENDAR - FEBRUARY

__/ PLANNING AHEAD: HALF-MARATHON, 25K, 30K, MARATHON CALENDAR

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__/ QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"As in sports, in life there are losses. The protocol of sportsmanship that guides young athletes helps us remain dignified and gracious during those times of defeat. We learn that screaming and hollering is futile, and that scorning others because of their accomplishments is wrong. Most importantly, we learn that acting ugly and sore after a loss is the only thing that makes the first place athlete a loser."

-- Kelly Sampson, Detroit Renaissance, recipient of the MHSAA Fall Scholar-Athlete Award Scholarship. For more on Kelly and other Scholar- Athletes, see http://www.mhsaa.com/news/05safall.htm

__/ MICHIGAN RUNNER TV: AN INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN SELL

The running community first began to notice Brian Sell when he set the pace for the first 20 miles at the 2004 Olympic Marathon Trials. Last week Sell won the Austin 3M Half Marathon in a personal best 1:02:59. Michigan Runner spoke with the Hansons-Brooks athlete shortly after Sell was the second American to finish at the 2004 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon.

http://michiganrunner.tv/2005sell/

__/ MICHIGAN RUNNER TV: THE FROZEN FOOT RACE WITH BILL RODGERS

The Traverse City Track Club brought American distance legend Bill Rodgers to Traverse City as the ninth in the annual Bayshore-In- Training Legends Series on January 21. The next day over two hundred runners joined Rodgers for the five mile Frozen Foot Race. http:// michiganrunner.tv/2005rodgers/

__/ OFF TOPIC, BUT IMPORTANT (WE'RE JOURNALISTS): HIGH SCHOOL KIDS DON'T UNDERSTAND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

The Knight Foundation, the foundation behind the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, released the results of a massive survey of what high school students think about the First Amendment. Among the results: more than one third of the 100,000+ students surveyed think the that newspapers should get government approval before publishing articles. For USA Today's coverage of this survey, see http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-01-30-students- press_x.htm

For the complete press release from the Knight Foundation, see http://www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=news_at_knight/releases/ 2005/2005_01_31_firstamend.html.

__/ SUPER BOWL 5K, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6

You'll feel better about hanging out on the couch if you get in a race earlier in the day on Sunday. The Super Bowl 5K is Chuck Block's first race of the season and begins at 10:00 am at Playmakers in Okemos. You can print an entry form or register online at http:// runningfoundation.com.

__/ ROAD RUNNERS SEEKS RISING RUNNING STARS

Kyle Baker, Mason, adidas/Michigan State, and Clint Verran, Rochester, Hansons-Brooks/Eastern Michigan, each have been Roads Scholars in recent years. Applications for the Road Runners Club of America 2005 Roads Scholar Program are online at www.rrca.org/programs/ roadsapp.pdf and are due March 31, 2005. The Roads Scholar grants of $5,000 are designed to assist top American post-collegiate runners who, while struggling financially, show great promise to develop into accomplished national world-class athletes. Fore more information, see http://www.rrca.org/news/844.html.

__/ GOOD NEWS AND BAD ABOUT RUNNING ON TV:

-- TRACK & FIELD FANS UPSET WITH ESPN'S COVERAGE OF REEBOK INDOOR GAMES

Renowned running, track and field photographer Victah Sailer is calling on fans to complain:

"How are we to spread the great word of track and field in America, well certainly not by the television program I just witnessed in shock......I think we should all be shocked and totally dismayed by a tape delayed show.....this was not live tv......but taped and they royally blew it. Please wake me up and tell me that ESPN is part of USA Track and Field on Television for American viewers. I feel bad for the meet organizers, sponsors, USATF and the fans who saw one of the greatest indoor track meets of all time. I think we all waited to see the great WR of a World Champion and Olympic Medalist time alotted ONE Minute The 2nd fastest womans 3k of all time.......Zero, the big goose egg, not one second, especially when it could have been another WR, but the Olympic Champion had to run around woman she had lapped!!!! In first 23 minutes, we witnessed one 400m and one 200m race!!!!!!

In your wildest dreams, do you think the TV station broadcasting the Superbowl, would do a commentary on drugs during the game itself.

Did they watch the HS races.........both races had great moves in the last 150m, ESPN showed the last 100 meters.....so to cut out 5-6 seconds on each race, they alotted 3 minutes to the Mens 60m. Then we had less than 24 hours before ESPN ruined our experience. I truly hope that this issue is addressed, as a track addict like the rest of you........I am totally disgusted. . ."

Victah urges fans to contact ESPN at http://sports.espn.go.com/sitetools/s/contact/espntv.html

-- OLN TO TELEVISE BOSTON MARATHON

We like OLN's coverage of the Tour de France and the X-Games. Now we'll get to see what they can do with the Boston Marathon:

"The Outdoor Life Network (OLN) and the Boston Athletic Association have announced a multiple-year partnership for OLN to televise the Boston Marathon nationally, both live and tape-delayed, beginning in 2005.

OLN will provide three hours of live, wire-to-wire coverage to North American homes, making the Boston Marathon the only U.S. road race to receive complete, live, national coverage."

--From USA Track and Field News and Notes, Feb. 2, 2005 __/ ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RITE AID CLEVELAND MARATHON & 10K TO BE DISCUSSED AT RUNNING USA ANNUAL CONFERENCE CLEVELAND, (January 17, 2005) --- The recently completed economic impact study of the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon & 10K on the Cleveland community will be part of a panel discussion at the 2005 Running USA Annual Conference in San Diego in this coming weekend.

The economic impact study, conducted by Pittsburgh-based Forward Analytics, concluded that last year's Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon & 10K generated more than $6.8 million for the greater Cleveland economy. It found that the running community is very supportive of the race and runners view it as a "must do" event.

During the panel discussion, President Jack Staph will present conclusions from the economic impact study showing direct spending by runners and their families and friends during the 2004 race weekend totaled more than $2 million. Spending went for food at restaurants, entertainment, retail purchases, ground transportation, gasoline, lodging and purchases at the health and fitness expo. Restaurants led the spending which totaled more than $900,000. -- From a Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon Press Release

__/ GREAT PERFORMANCES

-- Everybody running in the most remarkable race since the Olympics: Tim Broe, Kevin Sullivan, Kenenisa Bekele, Alistair Cragg ane more. Reebok Indoor Games, Boston, Jan. 29. More on this next week. This race will be talked about for years.

-- Brian Sell, Hansons-Brooks, 1:02:59.0, 1st, 3M Austin Half Marathon, 1/30/05

-- Michael Wardian, Arlington, Va./Michigan State, 1:10:0, 2nd, Miama Tropical Half Marathon, 1/30/05. Ran into the treadmill marathon record holder and Michigan State Spartan at the Miami Expo.

-- Nate Brannen, Michigan, 3.55.11, Joe Concannon Mile, Boston Indoor Games--missed collegiate record by .01. Nuts.

__/ MRN ON THE ROAD: MIAMI, KEY WEST, ORLANDO

-- Miami, happened to be in town visiting family and stopped by the Miami Tropical Marathon Expo. Exhibiting: Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront, Chicago Lakeshore Marathon, the National Guards's new marathon in Lincoln Nebraska, and John Bingham (penguin) and Jenny Hadfield (penguin's coach).

Picking up his packet: Michael Wardian, current world record holder of marathon on a treadmill. Michigan State Spartan won 2nd place prize money.

__/ MRN'S UPCOMING SCHEDULE

February 12, EMU Classic Indoor Track, Ypsilanti

February 13, Riverview Winterfest, Riverview

February 26, Heat the Streets, Detroit

February 26-27, Big Ten Indoor Track Women's Championships, Ann Arbor

March 18-20, Around the Bay 30K, Hamilton, Ontario

__/ RACE CALENDAR

Saturday, February 5

* Gourmet Glide, Garland Resort, Lewiston, 9:00 am, 10K XC Ski tour Web: http://garlandusa.com Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/miskier/season_3/garland/index.html

Sunday, February 6

* Super Bowl 5K, Okemos, 10:00 am, 5KR, http://runningfoundation.com

Wednesday, February 9

* Bumper Run, 6:15 pm, 6KR (approximately), Stony Creek Metropark Boat Launch, free, no registration

Saturday, February 12

* Gourmet Glide, Garland Resort, Lewiston, 9:00 am, 10K XC Ski tour Web: http://garlandusa.com Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/miskier/season_3/garland/index.html

* Sweetheart Run/Walk & Relay, Flushing, 10:00 am, 10KR, 5KR/W, 10K Relay, http://riverbendstriders.com

* USATF Cross Country Championships, World Cross Country Team Trials and USA Masters 8 km Cross Country Championships, Vancouver

Sunday, February 13

* * USATF Cross Country Championships and World Cross Country Team Trials, Vancouver

Saturday, February 19

* Gourmet Glide, Garland Resort, Lewiston, 9:00 am, 10K XC Ski tour Web: http://garlandusa.com Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/miskier/season_3/garland/index.html

Saturday, February 26

* Gourmet Glide, Garland Resort, Lewiston, 9:00 am, 10K XC Ski tour Web: http://garlandusa.com Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/miskier/season_3/garland/index.html

* Heat the Streets Run & Walk for Warmth, Detroit, 8:00 am, 10KR, 5KR/W, http://www.heatthestreets.org

__/ PLANNING AHEAD: HALF-MARATHON, 25K, 30K, MARATHON CALENDAR

February 27, 2005

* Kilimanjaro Marathon, Half & 5K, Moshi, Tanzania, Africa http://www.kathyloperevents.com/kilimanjaro

March 19, 2005

* Martian Marathon & Half Marathon & Boston Bound 20 Mile Training Run, Northville, MI, ttp://martianmarathon.com

March 20, 2005

* Around the Bay 30K, Hamilton, Ontario, 30KR, 3 person relay, 5K/WR, 111th Web: http://www.aroundthebayroadrace.com/ Video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2004bay-cleveland/

* Churchill's Half Marathon, Monclova Community Center, Monclova, Ohio,1:00 pm, http://toledoroadrunners.org

April 2, 2005

* Flushing Township 1/2 Marathon and 5K, Flushing HS, 9:00 am, http://gaultracemanagement.com

April 24, 2005

* Running Fit Trail Marathon & Half Marathon, Pinckney, Web: http://trailmarathon.com Video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2003trailmarathon/

April 30, 2005

* Borgess Run for the Health of It, 13.1 MR, 5KR/W, 1MR, Kalamazoo, http://www.borgessrun.com

May 1, 2005

* Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon, 26.2MR, 13.1MR, 6:30 am, Cincinnati, http://flyingpigmarathon.com

May 14, 2005

* Fifth Third River Bank Run, Grand Rapids, 25KR, 5KR/W Web: http://53riverbankun.com Video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2004riverbankrun/index.html

May 21, 2005

Great Wall Marathon, Half & 10K, Huangyaguan, China (3hrs North of Beijing) Web: http://www.kathyloperevents.com/gwm Video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2003greatwall/

May 22, 2005

* Rite-Aid Cleveland Marathon, Half Marathon & 10K Web: http://www.clevelandmarathon.com Video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2004clevelandmarathon/index.html

May 29, 2005

* ING Ottawa Marathon, 26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 10KR, 6:30 am, Ottawa, Ontario, http://www.ncm.ca/scenic/

May 30, 2005

* Bank One/The Truth Great Race Sports Festival, Elkhart, Indiana, 13.1 MR, 10KR, 5KR, many other events, Web: http://www.thegreatrace.net Video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2004greatrace/index.html

June 4, 2005

* Sunburst Marathon, South Bend, Indiana, 6:00 am, 26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 10KR, 5KR, http://sunburstraces.org

June 5, 2005

* Dexter to Ann Arbor Run, 8:20 am, Ann Arbor, 13.1 MR, 10KR, 5KR/W, http://www.dexterannarborrun.com

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