Posts in road race management
HUSSEIN, KIMBROUGH WIN INAUGURAL MASTERS 8K RACES

DAILY PRESS

Mbarak Hussein hopes to complete well into his 50s and 60s, inspiring younger runners the way older runners motivate him. Chris Kimbrough simply hopes to compete more frequently. Hussein and Kimbrough were the overall winners of the inaugural Fit to Run Fit to Dream 8-kilometer race, USA Track and Field's national championship for Master's Class runners age 40 and above.

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THEY'VE NEVER CANCELED THE BOSTON MARATHON. BUT HERE'S THE ONE YEAR THEY ALMOST DID

THE BOSTON GLOBE

The air inside the 10-by-10-foot command-post trailer was hot and still despite the icy rain and 50-mile-an-hour gusts outside. It was Sunday, April 15, barely 12 hours before the first runners would leave by bus for the town where the Boston Marathon begins, and the men and women in the trailer parked at the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth streets near the finish line watched on their TV monitors and computer screens as information poured in about falling trees and power lines, flying camera cranes and port-a-potties, and ankle-deep mud at the staging area in Hopkinton.

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