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

Joshua Holmes – Denmark Dash 5K and some training runs on the trail!

Travis Hutchinson – Running in Bozeman at 5,000 ft. Nice getaway trip for the weekend. Plan on doing 35 miles in 2 runs!

rebecca kell – Running Warm Your Heart 5K with several friends.

John Shepard – I will be at @BigRiverRunning‘s Castlewood Cup on Saturday. Completely pumped.

Lisa Gonzales – I’m running the La Jolla Canyon 50K on Sunday. My 2nd! Woo!

Kiki – I’m running in the Making Tracks for Celiacs 5K in Hoover, AL.

Ev•••••• – Saturday, 5 miler – Ortega River Run 2012, Jacksonville, FL.

Carissa – ….conference meet!!! #emutf

Lauren Karn – Disney princess half marathon 🙂 @DisneySports

Indika McCampbell – time to get nice long 17mile training run on the trails this weekend!!

Paul – Xterra GA Thrill in the hills marathon

jjfrankelman – Trek Up the Tower in Omaha! Race up 40 flights of stairs.

elizabeth v rehmer – Disney baby!!! Princess half and my first time to Disney!

Susie K – 8 mile training run in Montauk, Long Island, NY 🙂

Tisha White – Mardi Gras Mambo 10K in Baton Rouge this Saturday

Jonathan Stewart – 16 easy breezy miles in J town. AJM just around the corner.

Heather Bily – #ragnardelsol. Bring it!!!

Lisa B. – Ft Worth. Cowtown Challenge 🙂

Kevin Ronayne – looong training runs this weekend in Central Mass

Jonathan Harrison – Leah & @ScottStader are running the Oxford Run 4 Hope Half Marathon in Oxford, MS.

Chad Lapp – running the febapple frozen 50k – south mountain preserve – NJ on Saturday!

Mike Kottmer – Mud In Your Eye 8K

jen bussey – in snowy calgary, helping my friend train for her first 1/2 marathon in prague mar 31 🙂

Danielle Elyse – I am RUNNING into the ocean for the Seaside Polar Bear Plunge on Saturday!! lol

Kevin Kozuszek – The Castlewood Cup 15k trail race by @bigriverrunning. It’s the best reason to train during the winter.

James Meredith – Sticking close to home, 8 miles; last long run before Little Rock, hoping to avoid injury, fatigue. Tapering can be a challenge.

We Run This – running in the fresh snow of WI…if it sticks around that long’

Camille Breckenridge –  #Oxford Run for Hope 5K

Casey – Princess 1/2 Marathon at Disney World on Sunday!

Gina Sassone – Super Spartan 8 mile obstacle course in Miami@Spartan_Race

Fernando Avila Alvar – at the parque tangamanga!

Lindsay Edwards – The Disney Princess Half Marathon in Orlando on Sunday!!! #disneymagic #readytorun

Sarah Malaney – 6 mile run Saturday with the Bridge the Gap Half Marathon training group!

Angie Gerber – 18 mile training run in beautiful Trout Lake, WA. Snow and wind will not stop us!

Nathan Bugg – <–Cowtown 10k in Ft.Worth Texas

Kimberly Tucker – Runniny my last long run before my half in NOLA next Sunday!

Chris Mateer – 5k/3k double at the SUNYAC championships….should be a fun weekend, both races are looking stacked!

Herk the Giant – 15km along the Birmingham Canal Main Line Upper and Lower levels via Smethwick

Connor Sorrells – george rogers clark 10 miler in vincennes indiana

William McArthur – half marathon race from Colorines to Valle de Bravo – Mexico!

Dina Kwit – Scenic City Half Marathon, Tenn.

AMI Round the Bays – wellington’s biggest ever fun run will gave 12,000 people running #AMIRoundTheBays

Kelly Belch – Doing my first 7k tomorrow for @Wgtnroundthebay ‘s. Very nervous and excited at the same time #cheeky7k

Jimmer0 – Running the Snow Joke half tomorrow in Seeley Lake, Montana.

Justin Gillette – Helping organize the Goshen Indoor Marathon…2 marathons held Saturday (8am and 230pm start times) and 1 on Sunday (7am start). One brave man is going to run all 3….204 laps on indoor track per race.

Marj Mitchell I forgot to write I will be doing a 19 miles on the hilly trails for week 13, marathon#2 training, it’s also my birthday and I can’t think of a better thing to do on my special day than to run long:)

It is being reported that a 9-year old Alabama girl, Savannah Hardin, is dead after being forced to run for three hours after lying to her grandmother about eating candy bars.

The girl died several days after having a seizure during the run. She was severely dehydrated during the run that caused the seizure.

Her grandmother, Joyce Hardin Garrard, and stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, are now being charged with murder.

Savannah Hardin died Monday at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s release said an autopsy report showed the girl was extremely dehydrated and had a very low sodium level. A state pathologist ruled it a homicide.

The sheriff’s office received calls from concerned citizens who witnessed the girl running. No other details were released, but an official with the local volunteer fire department said rescuers thought something seemed odd when they responded to a call about the child.

Both Garrard and Hardin are currently released on $500,000.00 bail and are awaiting trial.

Court records show that Robert Hardin filed for divorce in August of 2010. In his complaint, he asserted his wife was bi-polar and had alcoholic tendencies. He accused her previously of having run off with the couple’s own child. In her response, Jessica denied all of Robert’s allegations.

This story is extremely tragic and very saddening.  Both women hopefully will be found guilty of little Savannah’s murder if the details of the story and police report are accurate.  It is no less than extreme child abuse of the girl and probably not the first time she was abused in such a way.

What they did was unconscionable. Their punishment of Savannah for her ‘crime’ of eating candy bars was beyond excessive and showed little concern, care, or love for the girl.

Our thoughts and prayers at Run It Fast go out to the Hardin family…those that loved and cared about her at least.

Here is the finisher’s medal from the 4th Annual IMS Arizona Marathon that was held on February 19, 2012.

The race started in Buckeye, Arizona and finished in Glendale, Arizona as the beautiful back of this medal proudly displays.

I’m really a fan of this medal. It’s strong, bold, relatively simple, and classy.

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[medal photos submitted by Robert Boluyt. Follow him on Twitter @Bateluer]

Here is the finisher’s medal from the inaugural Rock ‘n’ Roll Pasadena Half Marathon that was held on February 19, 2012 in Pasadena, California.

Rock ‘n’ Roll can be either hit or miss on their medals. This is one of their more beautiful pieces of bling.  The color scheme plays well for Pasadena.  The only thing that would have been better is if they could have fit a rose on there somewhere.

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[medal photo submitted by Tiffany Henness. Follow her on Twitter @Running_Hutch]

Often we finish a race to not be handed a finisher’s medal but a 13.1 sticker, BMF wallet (photo), or in the case of the 2012 Pilot Mountain Payback Marathon a finisher’s mug.

The race was held near Mt. Airy, North Carolina.

Jason Sutton was diplomatic about it calling it a “functional medal.”  Congrats to Jason on his mug. Well deserved after a tough 26.2 on the trails.

I guess if the finishers liked this bling will truly depend if their mug was half full or half empty!

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[Bling photo submitted by Jason Sutton. Follow him on Twitter @Jasut]

Here is the finisher’s medal from the 2012 LIVESTRONG Austin Marathon that took place in Austin, Texas on February 19, 2012.

Cool medal. Lot of detail and references to Austin. Stays true to the LIVESTRONG brand.

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[medal photo submitted by Aaron Johnstone. Follow him on Twitter @TexasRunnr]

Here is a croc of a medal. The finisher’s medal from the 2012 5 Points of Life Marathon that was held February 18, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Good job to the organizers on this bling. I really like the shape, size, design, and alligator of course.

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[medal photo submitted by Angie Holland. Follow her on Twitter @tangiers8]

Here is the pequeno finisher’s medal from the 2012 Stonebridge Ranch Half Marathon that was held on February 18, 2012 in McKinney, Texas.

Thin mint anyone?

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[medal photo submitted by Mark Lindsley. Follow him on Twitter @mlindsley]

Here is one of the best medals we’ve received so far this year. It’s the finisher’s medal from the 2012 Woolley Run 50K-Marathon-Half Marathon that took place on February 18, 2012 in Sedro-Woolley, Washington.

This race did a good job of not doing anything ass-backwards or did they…

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[medal photos submitted by Jack Curtis. Follow him on Twitter @JackCurtis_WA]

Justin Gillette won the 2012 Lost Dutchman Marathon on Sunday (February 19, 2012) in Apache Junction, Arizona with a winning time of 2:31:03.

The Indiana native beat out second place finisher Tom Lipsie by over 9 minutes. Lipsie finished in 2:40:26.  Third place went to O’Canada’s Ken Myers in 2:41:41.

Top 10 Male Lost Dutchman Marathon Finishers

1. Justin Gillette – 2:31:03
2. Tom Lipsie – 2:40:26
3. Ken Myers – 2:41:41
4. Boone Ebel – 2:45:51
5. Stephen Anders0n – 2:49:58
6. Matthew Brake – 2:54:16
7. Gary Krugger – 2:54:49
8. Cliff Richards – 2:56:41
9. Brian Zacher – 2:58:17
10. Steve Dirkse – 2:58:39

Olympic Marathon Trials marathoner Leah Thorvilson easily won the Lost Dutchman Marathon winning by nearly 30 minutes with a time of 2:47:15. Leah finished 5th overall. She ran so fast that rumor has quickly circulated that she DID FIND the Dutchman.

Second place went to Traci Falbo in 3:14:23 with third place going to Brittany Orkney in 3:17:04.

Top 10 Female Lost Dutchman Marathon Finishers

1. Leah Thorvilson – 2:47:15
2. Traci Falbo – 3:14:23
3. Brittany Orkney – 3:17:04
4. Mary Hanna – 3:20:48
5. Linda Tivorsak – 3:25:17
6. Talva Parker – 3:25:42
7. Camille Bloom – 3:26:33
8. Ashlee Thomas – 3:27:27
9. Angela Warren – 3:27:27
10. Wendy Lathrop – 3:27:48

Full and Searchable 2012 Lost Dutchman Marathon/Half Marathon Results

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*chip times and clock times were inverted, converted, and perverted on official race results page. I went with the chip time for each posted.