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time at home and the absence of races amidst the pandemic stirred a fire inside each of them that they wanted to funnel into a competition. Enter: the Great American 5000, a virtual cross-country relay race created by Sports Backers to fill the race void during the pandemic.
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Women’s Marathon Project Preview: Will Anyone Go With Sara Hall? How Fast Will Keira D’Amato Run?
December 17, 2020
Women’s marathoning in the United States has never been as deep as it is right now. Witness the 450 women who ran at February’s Olympic Marathon Trials, or the US all-time list in the marathon, where 10 of the top 14 athletes are currently active. Of those 10, nine have set their personal bests within the last four years. And that list could undergo further revision this weekend at the Marathon Project.
Just consider some of the women lining up on Sunday in Arizona who have shown the potential to run considerably faster all of whom will be racing on a flat 4.3-mile loop designed for speed:
The Marathon Project Gives Elite Athletes A Lifeline During The Pandemic Dec 17, 2020 David Monti
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(16-Dec) Against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is generating over 200,000 new COVID-19 cases every day in the United States alone, 54 men and 44 women will mask-up and travel carefully to Chandler, Ariz., to compete this Sunday at The Marathon Project, a one-off elite-only marathon which will be held on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Run on a flat, 6.86-kilometer course, the race offers a lifeline to North America s elite marathoners who have seen nearly every important marathon in the world this year shut down after mid-March.
RRW: The Marathon Project Gives Elite Athletes A Lifeline During The Pandemic
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(16-Dec) Against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is generating over 200,000 new COVID-19 cases every day in the United States alone, 54 men and 44 women will mask-up and travel carefully to Chandler, Ariz., to compete this Sunday at The Marathon Project, a one-off elite-only marathon which will be held on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Run on a flat, 6.86-kilometer course, the race offers a lifeline to North America’s elite marathoners who have seen nearly every important marathon in the world this year shut down after mid-March.
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