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UjENA FIT Club 100 Interesting Running Articles

Best Road Races and the UjENA FIT Club is publishing 100 articles about races, training, diet, shoes and coaching.   If you would like to contribute to this feature, send an email to Bob Anderson at bob@ujena.com .  We are looking for cutting edge material.

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Pleasanton: The Masters of Double Racing
Posted Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
By David Prokop Pleasanton, Calif., may be a quiet, relaxed community across the bay from San Francisco, but where Double... Read Article
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Champions of the Double
Posted Monday, September 15th, 2014
Peter Mullin has taken Double Racing® by storm. He broke the 60-64 age group world record in the first Double... Read Article
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Double Racing Has Truly Arrived!
Posted Monday, September 22nd, 2014
by David Prokop (Editor Best Road Races) Photo: Double 15k top three Double Racing® is a new sport for... Read Article
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Pritz's Honor
Posted Sunday, May 11th, 2014
By David Prokop, editor Best Road Races The world’s most unusual race met the world’s most beautiful place, in the... Read Article

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Meb is Ready to Race B2B
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
This is only Meb's second race since making the Olympic Team
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As the Zazzle Bay to Breakers kicks off its  second century on May 20, 2012, the City can bank on seeing the highest caliber  of competition to grace this race in decades. Welcoming back an Olympic silver  medalist, the course record holder, and former Boston Marathon champ, this race  is sure to be one to go down in the history books.

This year, the Zazzle  Bay to Breakers footrace welcomes back 2004 Olympic marathon silver medalist,  Meb Keflezighi for the second time at the Cross City Race.  Known simply as “Meb” to the running world, as his running performance speaks for itself, ZB2B  follows his dominating win at the United States Marathon Olympic Trials.  His  Olympic Trials victory allowed Meb to make his third Olympic team and  immediately catapulted him as a favorite to medal in the London Olympics this  summer.  Meb  is also a member of the Ujena Fit Club.

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Standing in the way of an epic victory for Meb in San Francisco  is course record holder, Sammy Kitwara.  The Kenyan, Kitwara is looking to  capture his third title on the Great Highway and is one of the fastest men in  world history over the half marathon distance.  Not only does Kitwara hold the  course record, he also owns a win in the narrowest margin of victory in ZB2B  history.
Looking for a victory of his own is Ethiopian, Direba Merga.  

Merga was runner-up at the centennial race and hoisted the victor’s laurels at  the 2009 Boston Marathon.  Merga is a well-known front runner who is unafraid to  push the pace in a race and has declared the focus of his spring racing to win  the 101st Bay to Breakers in San Francisco.

This trio of men, along with  athletes from Australia, Kenya, United States, and Ethiopia will vie not only  for the champion’s trophy, but also for a $25,000 bonus if the winner can beat  the top female to the finish line as well as $5,000 to be the first to crest the  fabled Hayes Street Hill.

The race kicks off at 7:00 a.m. at Howard and  Beale Streets, when no more than 34 minutes later the fates of these men will be  decided and the Bay to Breakers crown will be awarded.  Several other Ujena Fit Club members are running including Bob Anderson.  This is his 22nd race of the year.  
 

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