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                    Runner’s World (8/91) told the story of Beth Anne DeGiantis’s attempt to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Trials marathon. A female runner must complete the 26 mile, 385 yard race in less than two hours, forty-five minutes in order to compete in the Olympic Trials.
   Beth started strong but began
                    
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                    Contributed by David Rumley on Jan 4, 2007
                
                
                
                    A runner and his daughter:
•	A daughter asked her father, who ran on a consistent basis… After one cold morning like today… the daughter asked… 
•	Dad, do you determine how far you will run each time, or do you go as far as you feel like it? 
•	 I find if I am running and think about how I am
                    
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                    Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Jan 4, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Hours behind the runner in front of him, the last marathoner finally entered the Olympic stadium. By that time, the drama of the day’s events was 
almost over and most of the spectators had gone home. This athlete’s story, however, was still being played out.
 Limping into the arena, the
                    
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                    Contributed by John Foster on Jun 10, 2007
                
                
                
                    If you are a marathon runner you are encouraged to eat pasta the night before the race because pasta has lots of energy in and the speed of release of energy from Pasta is slow so that you get it during the race just when you need it.        It’s actually a bit more complicated than that though.  
                    
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                    Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
                
                
                
                    "Runner’s World" told the story of Beth Anne DeCiantis’s attempt to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Trials marathon.  A female runner had to complete the 26-mile race in less than two hours, forty-five minutes to
compete at the Olympic Trials. Beth started strong but began having trouble around mile
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Mar 10, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Marathon runners often reach the point where they wonder whether they can keep going. They hit the wall. They doubt they can finish the race. Their muscles burn with pain; their strength is gone. They feel defeated.
As we run our Christian lives, we can reach that point too. Faced with our sin, we
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Stewart on Feb 14, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The following incident won the runner-up prize in the 1999 Darwin Awards:
     A Vermont native, Ronald Demuth, found himself in a difficult position. While touring the Eagle’s Rock African Safari (Zoo) with a group of thespians from St. Petersburg, Russia, Mr. Demuth went overboard to show them
                    
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                    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Sep 17, 2004
                
                
                
                    United States runner Marla Runyon has been legally blind for 22 years.  Even so, she competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.  In fact she qualified for the finals in the 1500 meter race.  (Marla finished eighth, three seconds behind the medal winners.)
How does she do it? 
                    
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                    Contributed by Kent Lenard on May 30, 2004
                
                
                
                    In a recent NCAA cross-country championship held in Riverside, California, 123 of the 128 runners missed a turn. One competitor, Mike Delcavo, stayed on the 10,000 meter course and began waving for fellow runners to follow him. Delcavo was able to convince only four other runners to go with him.
                    
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                    The picture series are frozen both in time and in memory.  The scene unfolds from the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.  Two runners, one American, the other from South Africa, although of British descent.  The starter’s pistol fires and around the track the runners race for the finishing line. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    If God is to develop His plan in your life and you are to work at it with all your heart, then you must grow new spiritual muscle for the challenge.  As a runner begins to train, his or her entire being is transformed.  Within weeks of starting training the runner actually grows new capillaries. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHICH WAY? 
In a recent NCAA cross-country championship held in Riverside, California, 123 of the 128 runners missed a turn. One competitor, Mike Delcavo, stayed on the 10,000 meter course and began waving for fellow runners to follow him. Delcavo was able to convince only four other runners to go
                    
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                    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jun 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 24, 2008
                
                
                
                    Living the Full Christian Life
As believers, we have received a great inheritance and legacy.  In Acts 17:11, Luke writes, "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what
                    
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                    The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. Oddly enough, the winner was not the runner who finished first and fastest. It was the first runner who finished the race with his torch still lit. 
I am not trying to outrun others.
I just want to run all the way to the
                    
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                    Contributed by William Neel on Jan 23, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ill.  Can you imagine what it would be like to be at a track meet waiting for the start of the 100 meter race?  Gathered together are the top runners from across the world.  Fractions of a second separate these runners.  While the marathon is a test of stamina and endurance, the 100 meters is an
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael Fordham on Oct 29, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In a recent NCAA cross-country championship held in Riverside, California, 123 of the 128 runners missed a turn. One competitor, Mike Delcavo, stayed on the 10,000 meter course and began waving for fellow runners to follow him. Delcavo was able to convince only four other runners to go with him.
                    
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