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	<description>Become Your Own Hero</description>
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		<title>OGOR Marianne Dickerson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["I told myself I would never run another marathon again. "It was awful. I did the last two miles in about twenty minutes. I had blisters that covered half my foot. I couldn't walk for a week."]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Ran By This House Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing.  No matter what anybody else says. ― Haruki Murakami I ran by this house yesterday and faded vinyl siding spoke to me. “You call that running?” When inanimate objects make fun of you, the smart...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mad Dog Bill Scobey Joins The Pack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the running camp at WSU was in its last week, someone came up with the idea of running a 24-hour relay.  You know, that bit of madness where you have a ten-man team and you take turns running a mile.  This goes on for 24 hours.  Bill Scobey cemented his claim to the name Mad Dog.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Steve Spence Says Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So many to thank, all a story unto themselves. Like my dad for encouraging me to take a risk, quit my day job and go all in as a post-collegiate runner.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Those Who Worship The Dark, Where Will You Hide When The Light Comes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Has he told you how I used to diaper him when he was little and he squirted me right in the eye?”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OGOR Lisa Rainsberger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Original Gangster Of Running Lisa Larsen Weidenbach Rainsberger had a laudable, lucrative, lustrous career. Finished as the First Alternate at the USA Olympic Marathon Trials in 1984, and again in 1988 and again in 1992.
Yeah, really. Three consecutive times in a row.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ernie Chatman: Inspiration Remembered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Coach Chatman was beloved as coach and mentor of legions, who only last September concluded a 8,814-day (almost 24 years) streak of running at least one mile daily.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lisa Weidenbach, 1989&#8217;s Top Woman Road Runner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Coming in as the previous champion, I was given race number, “W1” making me feel like I had a bullseye on my back. I remember the gun going off and the pace immediately heated up along with the air temperature.]]></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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