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The driving cold wind on the Colorado Plains made the lungs of the Indian runners burn.

As they got closer to Denver, the altitude made some sick. Jogging on paved roads took a toll on their legs.

Yet the runners, some descendents of the Cheyenne and Arapaho massacred at Sand Creek more than 140 years ago, were determined to finish the nearly 100-mile route from the Sand Creek Massacre Historic Site near the town of Eads to Denver.

After two days of running, they joined about 70 supporters Friday at the Wheel circular sculpture of trees outside the Denver Art Museum where they held a candlelight vigil for the nearly 200 women, children and elderly victims slaughtered on Nov. 29, 1864, by Colorado militia forces led by Col. John M. Chivington.

The rest of this story is at the Rocky Mountain News

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If you’ve got a few marathons under your belt and want to achieve a PR (Personal Record) then here are some tips that may be helpful. They aren’t particularly scientific, but they reflect my own personal biases and experience of ten years of marathon running. The information here is for the intermediate or middle-of-the pack runner.

If you’re in the top 10% of marathon finishers or have already qualified for Boston, you probably don’t need my help. If you’re just signing up for your first or second marathon, then you’ll have a PR anyways without my help. (You may like to read the article Running your First Marathon.)

Read the rest at Valley of the Geeks

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India’s financial and entertainment capital Mumbai is gearing up for what is being billed as ‘The Greatest Race on Earth’. Come Jan 21, 2007, and over 30,000 participants will vie for the $230,000 prize money at the Mumbai Marathon.

The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2007, in its fourth edition, will see 40 of the world’s top 100 athletes in action. The event will be telecast live to over 80 countries.

Officially announcing the event Friday night, organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi said: ‘The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon will be a dream run both for the city of Mumbai and the precipitants.’

The race, which has claimed the title of Asia’s largest marathon and is part of the ‘Greatest Race on Earth’, is a challenging relay race across the world’s four most established and toughest marathon circuits of Nairobi-Singapore-Mumbai-Hong Kong with the largest prize pool in athletics in the world - $1.5 million to be won by the fastest team.

Read the rest at M&C Sport’

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