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The newly named Rock the House 8K continued to grow as runners started at the Celebrate Fairfax Festival. Last year the race was a typical pre-summer day in June with more than modest humidity that would climb to about eighty degrees. This year the course would be littered with liters of perspiration as the region launched into a record heat wave.

PELHAM, AL – Conrad “The Caveman” Stoltz overcame a flat tire and the hard charging Dan Hugo to win the men’s race while mountain bike phenom Shonny Vanlandingham pulled off the first big win of her XTERRA career to take the women’s XTERRA Southeast Championship at Oak Mountain State Park in Shelby County today.

Columbus, OH, June 6-7, 2008 from Matt McGowan. The 101st Boys and 34th Girls Ohio High School Athletic Association Track and Field Championships saw numerous outstanding performances, including 17 State meets records. For the fifth year The Ohio State University Jesse Owens Memorial Track was the site of the largest high school track and field meet in the country . .

VANCOUVER, Canada (June 8, 2008)--Sarah Haskins (St. Louis, MO / Colorado Springs, CO) is getting to like Vancouver. Last year she earned her first World Cup top-three finish in the city and on Sunday she topped that with a silver medal at the 2008 ITU Triathlon World Championship.

New York, June 7, 2008—Dutch Olympian Hilda Kibet led fellow Olympians Madai Perez of Mexico and Deena Kastor of the United States to a one-two-three finish in a hot and steamy 37th running of the New York Mini 10K in Central Park on Saturday. Kibet pulled away in the last mile of the 6.2-mile race to claim the $10,000 first-place prize with a winning time of 32:43.

INDIANAPOLIS - Allyson Felix, Alan Webb, Sanya Richards, Wallace Spearmon, LaShawn Merritt, Lauryn Williams, Torri Edwards, Brad Walker, Reese Hoffa and Suzy Powell are just a few of the big names slated to compete Sunday at the 2008 Prefontaine Classic at historic Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

MARY WITTENBERG: We just left the press conference with Deena and Magdalena Lewy, Blake Russell and Hilda Kibet. As I shared then, I'll share now, that it is such a fitting close to our first-ever Running Week, celebrating our 50th anniversary, the kickoff to our 50th anniversary, here at New York Road Runners, to finish with the New York Mini.

New York, June 4, 2008 — Rookie marathoner Janet Schroeder, 41, of New York City, was the first name selected by New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg in the annual ING New York City Marathon lottery ceremony this morning in Central Park, just across from the finish line of the celebrated five-borough race.

Running Away Multisport has acquired the Lake Zurich Triathlon of Lake Zurich, IL. The Lake Zurich Triathlon, -- which left the race scene in 2006 due to road construction and returned to the August race calendar in 2007 -- has ceased operations. Running Away Multisport plans to relocate the event to the Bangs Lake area in Wauconda, IL.