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Posts Tagged ‘Emily-LeVan’


An Olympic Trials Retrospective by Kristin Barry and Sheri Piers

Jeanne Hackett interviewed Sheri Piers and Kristin Barry this evening at Peak Performance Multisport as part of her “A Running Conversation” lecture series. The talk went for about 50 minutes, with a little better than half of that time devoted to Kristin and Sheri answering Jeanne’s questions and the rest of the time devoted to [...]

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Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials

Today was the women’s Olympic Marathon Trials. Congratulations to all of the women that finished! Magdalena Lewy Boulet led most of the race, building a 40 second lead within 4 miles and extending that to almost 2 minutes throughout the race. In the last lap and a half, though, Deena Kastor dropped a few hammers [...]

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Two Trials » A Goal Exceeded and the Nightly News

I want to take this opportunity to give a big CONGRATULATIONS to Emily and to Maddie LeVan for not only meeting but also exceeding their goal of raising $52,400 for the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. And not only have they exceeded their goal, but they did so with a week to go before the Boston [...]

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Emily and Maddie’s “Fund Run”

The Maine Running Company is holding a “fund” run for Emily and Maddie LeVan Thursday, April 3rd, at 6:00. There will be a discussion about training for the Olympic Trials that will include Emily LeVan, Sheri Piers, and Kristen Barry. The Two Trials fund raiser has raised over $41,000 of the $52,400 goal so far, [...]

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Listen to the Replay of the Interview with Emily LeVan

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Last Chance to Ask an Elite Runner Your Questions!

Now is the last chance that you will have to get your questions answered in the interview with Emily LeVan on Wednesday night! If you have a question, you can ask it here: http://www.marathoning.org/ask/Emily-LeVan.html If you just want to dial in and listen to the interview or ask your questions in person, or if you’d [...]

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Your Opportunity to Interview an Elite Athlete

If you had an opportunity to ask an elite athlete any question, what would it be? Would you ask about training? About racing? About diet? How about asking how difficult it is for your 4 year old child to be diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)? On Wednesday, March 12th at 7:00 I will be [...]

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Two Trials » Olympic Marathons and Children’s Cancer

The following letter was sent to me at the beginning of the year and I am republishing it here with permission. Please join me in supporting Emily Levan in her Olympic Trials bid, as well as her daughter Maddie in her war against the cancer in her body. The “Two Trials” fundraiser kicks off today, [...]

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