Many races are held to stave off cabin fever in the dead of winter, such as the longest running race in Concully, Washington in January, and the competition held at the Fur Rondy Festival in Anchorage, Alaska, in March.
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Participants in the 41st running of the race include six past Iditarod winners, including Seavey and his father, Mitch Seavey.
On Tuesday, bookmakers slashed Horatio Nelson's odds from about 8-1 to 4-1 following a series of sizeable bets ahead of the 227th running of the big race.
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Afterwards he praised the atmosphere of the crowd and said the experience was good practice ahead of him running the full race next year.
Indeed when Zola Budd notoriously tripped Mary Decker-Slaney in the Los Angeles Olympics there was never any question of running the race again.
First run in 1897, when about 15 local runners drew a line in the dirt at Metcalf's Mill out in Ashland, it is the longest-running annual race at the distance and, most agree, the world's most prestigious.
He regained the U.S. indoor record in the 2-mile last month, but he'll be running the longest race 13.1 miles of his storied career outdoors.
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Currently the front-running Democrat in the race, she would be both the first woman and the first openly gay person to lead the nation's biggest city.
Now, I'm not implying that I am running the race solely to inherit another T-shirt, but it will surely be a great reminder of the experience.
Ayre is aware Liverpool supporters will expect their car to win races but stressed that the running of the race car is out of the football clubs hands.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators usually turn out to support those running in the race.
She ended up running the New York race again in November 1996.
The third and final face-to-face showdown occurred with the candidates running even in national polls and the race hinging on a handful of battleground states -- particularly Ohio, Florida and Virginia.
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When an Icelandic volcano grounded planes from Europe two years ago, many top European runners missed out on the Boston Marathon, as prestigious a running event as the New York race.
Maybe if they win again, their victories will be something more than a sad trivia question: Who won the most celebrated race in long-distance running the year the results didn't matter?
The drug is used to boost performance in endurance events such as running and cycling and the race is now on to validate it before the games in September.
She accomplished this goal at the 79th running of this iconic race in June.
The 4 by 400 was the last women's running race of these games.
At a reception at the Consulate General of Monaco in New York Friday night, Kipketer said he had trained for the New York race by running an hour or two daily.
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One finding: The type of heart problem that caused cardiac arrest in most of the survivors blood vessels that were too narrow to meet the oxygen demands of the heart during an intense running race can be caught by an exercise stress test.
In 1997 Frenchman Thierry Dubois and Briton Tony Bullimore were both rescued by the Australian navy after running into trouble in the Southern Ocean during the race.
And when asked, his answer is always the same: He has no plans to enter the race and is focusing solely on running the police department.
The open-wheel series is running a second, full-length race in the same weekend for the first time Sunday when Conway will start up front for the first time in his career.
But the more functions cell phone manufacturers add, the greater the amount of power the phones use and the less practical running them on lithium batteries becomes -- so the race to find a viable alternative is on.
With 10 horses running in each race, it would seem that the odds of any one district running winning would be 1:10, or a 10% probability for the Wave to win.
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The women's race was won by front-running Heather Turland, a mother of four who at 38 is the oldest competitor ever named on an Australian athletics team.
One night can indeed alter the race, but time is running out.
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