Today, Kenyan runners Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop were the winners of the 2012 Boston Marathon. Korir finished the annual race in 2 hours, 12 minutes, 40 seconds.  It was the second-slowest Boston Marathon since 1985 and Korir wound up finishing more than five minutes behind Geoffrey Mutai’s winning time last year. Today, Mutai was [...]

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Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the 2011 New York City Marathon in a course record time on Sunday. Mutai finished in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds yesterday, surpassing the record time of 2:07:43 set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia about ten years ago. Mutai, 30, is a solid favorite at [...]

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Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the 115th Boston Marathon in a fastest time ever of 2 hours, 3 minutes and 2 seconds, but but his performance is still not considered a world record due to a tailwind and the hilly course. Mutai beat the course record, which was set last year by Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot [...]

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Meb Keflezighi has become the first American to emerge victorious in the New York City Marathon since 1982. Keflezighi won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics.  He became a U.S. citizen in 1998, having been born in Eritrea He placed second in the race in New York in 2004 and placed third in ’05. [...]

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Why is Boston-based entrepreneur Jason Jacobs participating in this year’s Boston marathon dressed like a giant iPhone?  Jacobs is partnering with some undergraduatess at Emerson College who are enrolled in a new social media class. He popped into the class seeking assistance in marketing his iPhone App, RunKeeper, which is a GPS-based fitness app for [...]

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