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One-hundred years ago Thursday marked a momentous occasion not only for the city of Rockland, but for the state of Maine as well. At 10:47 a.m. Thursday morning exactly one century ago, thousands of spectators turned out in Rockland for the first ever marathon run in the Pine Tree State. One-hundred years later, downtown Rockland lacked thousands of spectators, but that did not hinder the efforts of a group of historians as roughly 30 people lined up to take part in a re-creation of that very race which took place back in 1908...
With the documentary film "Spirit of the Marathon" showing at just one Maine theater during its Thursday, Jan. 24 nationwide premier, members of two Maine running clubs, Spudland Racers and Crow Athletics, decided to run the approximately 130 miles from Bar Harbor to Brunswick to view the film...
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Why would otherwise normal-seeming human beings spend up to ten hours running 50 miles, in four-mile laps, on an island several miles out in the Atlantic Ocean? Because they can...
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"Friends, neighbors, legislators and fellow runners were stunned this week as word circulated that Bill Pinkham, 62, died Monday after collapsing at the end of the Walter Hunt Memorial Fourth of July 3,000-Meter Road Race in Bangor..."
"A contingent of 17 Hancock County runners, ranging in age from 27 to 67, will join a field of as many as 20,000 on Monday for the running of the 109th Boston Marathon..."
"Saturday's third annual George Schaefer Memorial Road Race was indeed a race..."
"Five teams and nine individuals competed in Saturday's sixth annual Mountain to the Sea Triathlon, organized by the James Russell Wiggins Down East Family YMCA..."
"Allen, who organized the relay, took the opportunity to break the United States Track and Field American masters long distance track running record for men ages 45-49. Allen, 46, completed 20 miles in 2:08:41, beating the previous record of 2:09:14, set by Ted Corbitt in Great Britain in 1966, by 33 seconds..."
"Some friendships are measured by time. Not many are measured by distance. Jeff Weisbruch, who is battling brain cancer, has 824.75 miles worth of friends..."
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"[Gary] Allen had come dressed for the B2B occasion: He was wearing a black bowler hat, bow tie, jacket with tails over his Crow Athletics singlet, and black knee socks, possibly silk..."
"As Crows co-founder and MDI Marathon director Gary Allen explained, the usual pattern is for a club
to form and then some time later create a marathon. But here, with typical Crow perversity, the marathon came first..."
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