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Saturday, November 3, 2007 12:43 PM
Original article: How Oprah ruined the marathon

For the rest of us..

Instead of blaming Oprah for Marathon Mania why don't you thank her? If she made marathon's more popular and more people participate it has probably upped the dollar amount most marathon's pay to winners which brings better quality runners to a lot of these races.

I think what makes elite runners angry is that at the end of the day pretty much any couch potato can run a marathon with some discipline and hard work which would make running not so elite right?

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