http://therunning.com/alabama.php State Feed en-us PHP/5.2.6 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8671 After Tuesday night's Champaign City Council meeting, a study session was held to update the council on the planning for the Illinois Marathon to be held on April 11. This will be the marathon's inaugural year in Champaign and the marathon planning staff has been working on plans for the event for the past 6 months. 2008-11-19 09:43:31 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8589 Freeburg High School freshman Kristen Busch placed fourth in the 1A Illinois State Cross Country Meet Saturday morning in Peoria. 2008-11-08 10:59:21 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8560 Interview with Illinois' Katie Engel 2008-10-28 08:50:30 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8503 Many have the impression that road racing and athletics operate in separate but parallel universes. During this weekend’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon those worlds collided. 2008-10-13 08:12:11 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8501 Kenya's Evans Cheruiyot won his second marathon in two tries, pulling away late from countryman David Mandago before finishing in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 25 seconds to win the Chicago Marathon on a warm Sunday morning. 2008-10-12 10:55:18 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8493 Jorge Torres touts importance of goals, dreams to Prospect Hts. school students. Here is a list of some of the things that U.S. cross-country athlete Jorge Torres learned while competing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing 2008-10-10 11:21:07 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8492 Kate O'Neill's Journal October 8, 2008 Journal Entry (Posted October 9, 2008) Tightrope Walking and Running Today while I was doing my core exercises at the gym, I heard an interview on NPR with Philippe Petit, a French high-wire artist best known for walking on a tightrope between New York City’s Twin Towers on August 7, 1974. I remember hearing stories about him a number of years ago and thinking that he must be crazy. After hearing him relate his adventures in his own words, I regret making such a snap judgment. His line of work may fall outside of the mainstream, but the passion he brings to it is something that I aspire to bring to every race I enter, especially the upcoming Bank of America Chicago Marathon. by Kate O'Neill 2008-10-10 11:19:01 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8497 The Chicago Marathon has been the site of four world records though the strong fields are not likely to produce another Sunday. But the men's record for 26.2 miles may be headed toward a barrier some don't think is realistic, the 2-hour mark. Two weekends ago Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia lowered his world record by 27 seconds to 2:03:59. 2008-10-10 11:18:06 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8484 CHICAGO -- Joan Marie Kaye and 45,000 runners gearing up for the Chicago Marathon know that muscle-aching, mind-numbing, hurts-so-bad-you-want-to-die kind of pain almost surely awaits them. 2008-10-10 11:14:43 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8489 Even though the top men’s marathoners at the Beijing Olympics demonstrated that you can run fast on a hot day, weather again looms as a story line for Sunday's 31st running of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. 2008-10-10 11:14:19