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Article: Thousands of Women "Run Like a Girl" at Fifth-Annual Nike Women's Marathon.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- November 6, 2008
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Today the Nike Women's Marathon (NWM) celebrated its fifth-year anniversary, with twenty thousand women participating in the world's largest women's marathon in San Francisco. Coming from 50 states and 25 countries, runners have raised more than $18 million for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)-bringing the five-year total to more than $78 million since the NWM began in 2004. This year's winner of the full marathon was Nora Colligan of Austin, TX (3:06:30), and the half marathon winner was Holly Hagerman of Woodland Hills, UT (1:22:40) (see also NIKE, Inc.).
"I'm honored to be a part of the Nike Women's Marathon," said Joan Benoit Samuelson, former Olympian ...