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Here is a look at the elite runners taking part of the 2012 Boston Marathon on Monday according to the Boston Athletic Association.

John Hancock’s 2012 Elite Boston Marathon Field

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Name  (Country)                                          Personal Best
Geoffrey Mutai (Kenya)                                2:03:02 (Boston, 2011) CR, WB
Gebre Gebremariam (Ethiopia)                2:04:53 (Boston, 2011)
Levy Matebo (Kenya)                                    2:05:16 (Frankfurt, 2011)
Wilson Chebet (Kenya)                               2:05:27 (Rotterdam, 2011)
Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot (Kenya)        2:05:52 (Boston, 2010)
Laban Korir (Kenya)                                    2:06:05 (Amsterdam, 2011)
Wesley Korir (Kenya)                                  2:06:15 (Chicago, 2011)
Bernard Kipyego (Kenya)                           2:06:29 (Chicago, 2011)
David Barmasai (Kenya)                            2:07:18 (Dubai, 2011)
Dickson Chumba (Kenya)                         2:07:23 (Frankfurt, 2011)
Josphat Ndambiri (Kenya)                         2:07:36 (Fukuoka, 2011)
Peter Kamais (Kenya)                                 2:07:37 (Xiamen, 2012) CR
Mathew Kisorio (Kenya)                              2:10:58 (New York, 2011)
Frankline Chepkwony (Kenya)                  2:10:59 (Nairobi, 2011)
Jason Hartmann (USA)                              2:11:06 (Chicago, 2010)
Michel Butter (Netherlands)                       2:12:59 (Amsterdam, 2011)
Antonio Vega (USA)                                     2:13:47 (Boston, 2010)

WOMEN

Name  (Country)                                          Personal Best
Aselefech Mergia (Ethiopia)                      2:19:31 (Dubai, 2012) CR, NR
Galina Bogomolova (Russia)                   2:20:47 (Chicago, 2006)
Mamitu Daska (Ethiopia)                           2:21:59 (Frankfurt, 2011) CR
Caroline Kilel (Kenya)                                2:22:36 (Boston, 2011)
Sharon Cherop (Kenya)                             2:22:42 (Boston, 2011)
Ashu Kasim (Ethiopia)                               2:23:09 (Xiamen, 2012)
Firehiwot Dado (Ethiopia)                         2:23:15 (New York City, 2011)
Buzunesh Deba (Ethiopia)                        2:23:19 (New York City, 2011)
Rita Jeptoo (Kenya)                                    2:23:38 (Boston, 2006)
Agnes Kiprop (Kenya)                                2:23:54 (Frankfurt, 2011)
Caroline Rotich (Kenya)                            2:24:26 (Boston, 2011)
Georgina Rono (Kenya)                             2:24:33 (Eindhoven, 2011) CR
Alevtina Biktimirova (Russia)                 2:25:12 (Frankfurt, 2005)
Genet Getaneh (Ethiopia)                          2:25:57 (Amsterdam, 2011)
Tatyana Pushkareva (Russia)                  2:26:14 (Boston, 2010)
Diana Sigei (Kenya)                                    2:26:53 (Dubai, 2011)
Nadezdha Leonteva (Russia)                   2:31:57 (Moscow, 2011)

CR=Course Record
WB=World Best
NR=National Record

[source: BAA]

We asked on Twitter (@runitfast) where you were running this weekend and 73 of you responded!

Good luck to you all this weekend and Run It Fast!

Joshua Holmes – Just some short recovery runs.

Lisa Gonzales – I’m hitting the local trails. Maybe up a mountain. Probably.

Kevin Ronayne – long runs on portions of the Boston Marathon course Saturday & Sunday

ashley hook – Boston Marathon!

Erica Meier – Big House Big Heart race in Ann Arbor, MI

JenniLoLo – running my 1st half marathon on Sunday after just beginning running in January — Go! St. Louis

Chad Dawson – #bostonmarathon !

J.R. Jamison – — in training for the #indymini. Long training run in store for me tomorrow. Beautiful weather for it here in the Midwest.

LG – 4/14 EAV 5k & pub crawl in atlanta, ga

Erin Manzo – Not racing this weekend, but running around my neighborhood in sunny Orlando, FL.

dricks gonzales – 21k for earth run here in PI

Kwame Robert – Highbanks trails @CbusMetroParks

Tianna Marshall – Nike She Runs LA 10k

Bryan Beavers – Racing Redbud Classic 10K in Oklahoma City Sunday

Kinetic Family – we’re running in the @VancouverSunRun 10K this Sunday

tlcesq – Hoping to run a 5k on Sat

Dani Obregón – 5K in Jackson, TN. Will @bayou join me? #runitfast

Jog Planet – Inaugural Austin 10/20! Ten miles with 20 bands

Hedzer – rotterdam marathon 🙂

Kay-Cee vd Parre – Running a 5k race in Rotterdam on sunday

brad dixon – presidio 10 miler

Angie Gerber – Final 21 mile training run in Portland, OR. Taper starts Monday!

joey – training run around cronulla! 15kms in preparation for the Great Ocean Road Half Marathon!

Kiki – I’m doing the Tomorrow’s Children 5K in Frankfort, KY.

Josh Gambill – 4/14 Winona Lake,IN 30mile trail. My first ultra!! Wish me luck!

Mands! – Cigna 5k in pittsburgh!

Amber Goetz – running @ Burlington, NC for the #TwitterCharityRun – U pick the distance & send the ‘registration fees’ to charity of choice 🙂

Brandon Sherrill – my first 10k in Davidson, NC!

Lisa Edwards – I’m running Tough Mudder in Ohio with my cousins Saturday morning!

Katie Maas – 8 mile training run in prep for Sunburst Half Marathon in June!!

sylvia – das laufen ist ein Lebenselexier.

Lindsay Edwards – Home meet at The University of Tampa Saturday night!! Go SPARTANS!!

Julie Vilord – the Boston Marathon!!!

Ace – Getting chased by Martians in the invasion of races, better not get probed! #RIF108

elizabeth v rehmer – skiing/biking/running in red lodge mt at the Grizzly Adventure Race

Shane Huff – Running our kick off event for Sunrise Tri Club, a duathlon, 1.5m run/ 11m bike/ 1.5m run!! Here goes nothing!

Dennis Arriaga – Presidio 10 Miler in San Francisco!

Meredith – Benicia Run for Education 10k in Benicia, CA

Rachel Weinthal – More Half Marathon in Central Park, NYC!

Andrew Hall – no place special, but I’ll be running you can bet on that.

Renee Dudley – doing the Dallas marathon on Sunday. Correction- BEASTING it on sunday.

MissisB – 10km around Putney on Saturday and Richmond Park 10km race on Sunday 🙂

Brian Price – I’m running the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure: Greater Fort Worth 5K tomorrow. Gonna be fun!

Nova Physiotherapy – Lung Run – Halifax NS

titeyogarunner – into the mud for 42km up and down the hills

Emily Conley – Muir Woods trail marathon SF, Ca.

Donica’ Beckett – I’ll be at the @sistersnetwork Stop the Silence Run/Walk Sat!

Sarah Malaney – 12 miles on the bottom roads in Quincy with the #BTGTraining Group! Can’t wait!

Steve Houston – half-ironman in Clermont FL.

Jenn – Running GO STL half marathon 🙂

jea – 13mi LR prep for @kdfrunner Louisville Mini

Jared Friesen – back to back runs, 20 on Saturday and 10 on Sunday. First 50 miler in July!

Domenick P. Addesi – Walk + Run Against Hunger 5K in Philly at the Philadelphia Art Museum

Michelle Walker – I am pacing the Southern Indiana Classic Half Marathon in Evansville, IN!

Coloradodrew – Veda Earthday 5K this Sunday

Scott Stader – fellow #RIF‘er Jonathan Harrison and i will be running the Boston marathon! And maybe a local Jtown 5k tomorrow b4 we take off

Icar Hiponia – earth run on sunday 🙂 21k

Casey – I’m running the XTERRA Lake Las Vegas 21K trail run on Sunday.

Drew Michaels – Running the Hogeye Marathon in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Larissa –  @morefitnesshalf in NYC! #cantwait

Angela Rojas – University of Texas!!!

Mary Williams – No matter how slow you go, you’re lapping everybody on the couch! “Girls On The Run” tomorrow in Durham, NC #getupandmove

MarathonJunkie™Engle – sorry 4 not responding. I’ve been flying. I’m gonna run Gansett and Boston. If I can find one on Sunday, I’ll run it, 2 err…3.

Aron Lanie –  #stepupforsoldiers combat #mudrun in #Wilmington NC

y2kemo – I’m running the April Showers #Anywhere5K on Saturday. A free virtual race.

Melvin Owens – Denton county 5K!

Natalie Torres – I am hoping 2-3 miles through the neighborhood will help me bounce back from this cold.

Crystal – boston marathon!!!!!!

Michelle Mitchell – Kirzhach Half Marathon -Kirzhach Rus (starts where Gagarin was killed runs back to town) 2 hours out of Moscow-hellaciously hilly

Rigo Tellez – I’ll be running the Summerlin half-marathon tomorrow here in Las Vegas

Eric Secker – Rock the Parkway half in Kansas City

Robin – Running Boston!

Gavin – Vienna marathon for me on Sunday

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University of New Hampshire student Thomas ‘Tom’ Gounley will run the Boston Marathon on Monday while juggling bean bags during the race….the entire race.

Gounley ran the race last year in 2:56:05. It will be interesting to see how fast he will be running the race this year while juggling.

He decided to juggle bean bags instead of balls so he wouldn’t have to go chasing the balls if/when he were to drop one.

Of course he has coined a term for running while juggling – JOGGLING!

Best of luck to Tom, his bags, and everyone running the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Here is a quick and simple elevation chart graphic for the Boston Marathon course.

The course has an overall negative gain. It starts at 490 feet in Hopkinton an finishes at 10 feet above sea level at Copley Square.

The biggest rise during the race comes between mile 20 and 21 which is commonly referred to as Heartbreak Hill.  The 88 ft climb is not much to the experienced marathoner, but most marathoners running Boston have spent too much energy earlier on in the race and fall face first into the Heartbreak Hill (Wall).

[source: Boston.com]

Here is the finisher’s medal from the Lincoln Presidential Half Marathon that took place on April 7, 2012 in Springfield, Illinois.

I love this medal. It’s unique, looks like a penny, and honors one of the coolest Americans to ever live.

Now if someone would create a Penny Hardaway Marathon I’d be a set a drift on memory bliss.

MORE PHOTOS OF MARATHON/ULTRA MEDALS AND BUCKLES

[Submitted by RIF #20 Laura Raeder (@LauraRaeder)and Lauren S (@laurens3386)]

Here is the finisher’s medal and swag from the Inaugural Hollywood Half Marathon that took place on April 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.

Well done medal and swag. Very Hollywood!

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[Submitted by IPICO Sports. Follow them on Twitter @IPICOSports]

Here is the finisher’s medal/wood from the Oak Barrel Half Marathon that took place on April 7, 2012.

This beautiful medal is made from the oak barrels that Jack Daniels uses to store Tennessee’s Finest No7.

Oak Barrel is onne of the better half marathons in the country takes place every April in Lynchburg, Tennessee.

Brad Chronister was the overall winner of the OBHM on Saturday.

There is also a photo below of one of the age group awards courtesy of Daniel Solera who finished third in his age division.

MORE PHOTOS OF MARATHON/ULTRA MEDALS AND BUCKLES

[Images submitted by Daniel Solera (@rundansmarathon), Scott Stader (@scottstader), and Elizabeth Kalifeh (@ekalifeh)

Macdonald Ondaro won the Hollywood Half Marathon on April 7, 2012, in Los Angeles, California, with a time of 1:04:47.

Ondaro was able to hold off Benson Cheruiyot who was just 13 seconds behind in 1:05:01.  Third place male went to Ryan Bak in 1:06:09.

Top overall female went to Malika Camacho with a time of 1:16:34.

Second place female was Jen Kippi, who was just 23 seconds behind Camacho, in 1:16:57.  Third place went to Ariana Hilborn, who was on Kippi’s heels, in 1:17:03.

2012 Hollywood Half Marathon Top 10 Results

1. Macdonald Ondaro – 1:04:47
2. Benson Cheruiyot – 1:05:01
3. Ryan Bak – 1:06:09
4. Shadrick Bivott – 1:06:18
5. Teklu Deneke – 1:06:22
6. Stephan Shay – 1:08:08
7. Samuel Kosgei – 1:08:39
8. Brandon Laan – 1:10:12
9. Ivan Medina – 1:10:22
10. Okwaro Raura – 1:11:16

New Kids On The Block member Joey McIntyre ran the race in 1:55:27.

Full Searchable 2012 Hollywood Half Marathon Results

Tullahoma’s Brad Chronister won the Oak Barrel Half Marathon on April 7, 2012 in Lynchburg, Tennessee with a time of 1:13:00.

Chronister was barely able to hold off Geno Phillips who finished just 18 seconds behind in 1:13:18.  Third place went to Shane Thread in 1:19:30.

The top overall female was Winchester’s Shanda Wells with a winning time of 1:33:02.

Second place female went to Fran Glass in 1:33:32 with third place going to Misty Griffin in 1:34:28.

Full 2012 Oak Barrel Half Marathon Results

[image: Daniel Solera]

Vajin Armstrong won the American River 50 Mile Endurance Race on April 7, 2012 with a time of 5:53:14.

Rich Hanna was a relatively close second place finisher in 6:05:32. Third place went to Jacob Rydman in 6:10:09.

2012 American River 50 Mile Endurance Race Results

1. Vajin Armstrong – 5:53:14
2. Rich Hanna – 6:05:32
3. Jacob Rydman – 6:10:09
4. Chris Lundstrom – 6:16:40
5. Ellie Greenwood – 6:18:29
6. Chris Calzetta – 6:20:39
7. Rod Bien – 6:20:39
8. Erik Skaden – 6:25:51
9. Phil Shaw – 6:28:08
10. Christopher Wehan – 6:33:40

First overall female finisher was Ellie Greenwood (6:18:29) who was the 5th overall finisher as well.  She destroyed her competition with a winning margin of over an hour.

Jenny Hitchings claimed second place (7:21:24) and Ashley Laird took home third (7:24:48).

Full American River 50 Mile Endurance Run Results