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February 8, 2024The US Olympic Trials, like every marathon, has its own unique story with themes of accomplishment, heartbreak, redemption, breakthroughs, and underdogs prevailing. In an effort to capture some of… -
January 11, 2024Minnesotans will have 23 athletes with local ties to cheer for at the Olympic Trials for the Marathon, and every one of them has taken a unique path to…
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January 5, 2024Even had the internet existed in the 1980s, Mark Nenow would have had a low profile. He was quiet, and often trained alone using methods that worked for him,…
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October 12, 2023On September 10 shortly after dawn, more than 1,400 people began gathering along Lake Harriet Parkway in South Minneapolis, basking in a reprieve from the record-breaking heat and humidity…
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June 30, 2023In 2017, I moved to Minnesota – on occupied Dakhóta and Anishinaabe land. I moved to Minneapolis for love. An eleven-year love that had been ushered into existence by…
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May 22, 2023Let’s come right out with it: Gabriella Rooker’s marathon progression should shock even the hobbyist of joggers. Since her debut at Grandma’s in 2021 to her most recent race…
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April 19, 2023He’s not in the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame. His name is absent from the Minnesota Sports Almanacs. He’s not in the retellings of the state’s sports history from…
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September 19, 2022As a rising sun reflected on the still waters of Lake Harriet, people amassed on the lake’s western parkway road. Some who stood off to the side wore sweatshirts…
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June 25, 2022Two first-time visitors to the North Shore won men’s and women’s Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon while the Grandma’s Marathon wheelchair racers both set course records in the crisp, cool…
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June 19, 2022Minnesotan Dakotah Lindwurm made Grandma’s Marathon a priority on her calendar after her win last year, when she had become the first Minnesotan woman to win since Janice Ettle…
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June 17, 2022The 45th running of Grandma’s Marathon and 31st running of the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon will take place Saturday with a full field, hot competition, and a temperature forecast…
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June 1, 2022After two years of taking hits from the global pandemic, Rochester’s premier road race had another outside force to deal with: Mother Nature.
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May 28, 2022Rochester’s biggest race is back on Memorial Day weekend after two years, and the marathon relay racers won’t be the only ones passing on their batons.
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May 19, 2022Before I landed on Reservation River Road, in Grand Portage, I lived on an old farm outside of Two Harbors, Minnesota, on another dead end road, and my oversized…
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May 18, 2022The runners who lined up near the small-town Minnesota high school weren’t looking for a 26.2-mile run that was one-part race and three-parts rock-and-roll event. They weren’t looking for…
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