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	<description>Become Your Own Hero</description>
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		<title>Keith Brantly  1989 Road Runner Of The Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The thing I had to keep telling myself was that I could be bleeding from the eyes and I would not drop out.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>OGOR Fred Doyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Greg Meyer was my toughest opponent.  He would never give up, either in a workout or a race."]]></description>
		
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		<title>Terrible Boston Marathon TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who was the obsequious twit who continually described Bill Rodgers as "Mr. Downhill?"  Was that supposed to be a comment on Rodgers tactics, or on his career?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dave Mora Surprises At Goodwill Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This piece does not appear in my award-winning, not-bestselling When Running Was Young &#038; So Were We. Copies of first printing still available on Amazon. Think I have found six-seven additional articles my esteemed book researcher missed. Hell, I don't remember writing them, so he remains esteemed.]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Lost The Title</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams]]></description>
		
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		<title>Charlie Gray WDG #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["If the question were 'Who did you most enjoy competing against?' the answer would definitely be Frank Shorter.  Distance God.]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Independence Day&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom. &#8211; E.A. Bucchianeri “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right&#8230;and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pioneers Of The Running Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["We hope we did some good." - Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers Running Center]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should You Throw Away Your Running Shoes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When sports scientists first heard about the Tendai Marathon Monks, they assumed the reports was exaggerated folklore.  [The way sports scientists do.]  So, in 2011, a team from Stanford flew to Mount Hiei to document the damage.  They expected to find knees ground down to bone. Hips riddled with arthritis. Ankles held together by scar tissue.]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Long Live, Jack D!&#8221; Mystical Miles Translated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She's on the sixth floor and I am visiting every day, forced to park by the homeless camp on the edge of the lot and limp across the hot pavement past numerous empty spots reserved for the disabled.  Flowers wilted before I could get to her private room.]]></description>
		
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