Runnerspace.com/Rookies-Vs-the-World will be the place to be tomorrow afternoon at 5pm ET, as we host our second "Rookies Vs the World" Live Chat.  We will be 40 hours away from the start of the ING New York City Marathon, and with interest in t...

As a cross country specialist, Simon Bairu takes on all-comers: they lined up every distance runner in the NCAA and he took them down... twice.  Cast the net wider, and he comes home 13th in the world.  Now, it's your chance to compete.The ma...

Make sure to catch the live chat with Shalane Flanagan, Simon Bairu and Tim Nelson at 4pm ET on Oct 27th!  http://www.runnerspace.com/Rookies-vs-the-World

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10/25/2010 11:48 PM

By Jeremy Mosher
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The Long Road to New York
By SIMON BAIRU
Simon Bairu, 27, will make his
marathon debut in New York on Nov. 7. He won the 2005 and ‘06 N.C.A.A.
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Shalane Flanagan, the 2008 Olympic 10,000-meter
bronze medalist and 10,000-meter (30:22.22) recordholder, will make her
much-anticipated 26.2-mile debut at the ING New York City Marathon on
November 7. Flanagan
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