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Kansas Marathon, April 18, 2010 April 19, 2010
Photos from the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon in Lawrence on April 18, 2010.
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Runners were warming up around 6:30 a.m. Sunday for the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon. More than 1,600 runners gathered at the Shenk Sports Complex at 23rd and Iowa streets to compete in the three races offered, a 5K, a half marathon and a marathon. The races benefit Health Care Access Clinic, which serves uninsured and low-income patients in Douglas County.
Denny Gayton pushes hard up a hill in the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon on Sunday. This year was the first time that a full marathon was offered.
Matt Swanwick (35) heads up Naismith Drive on the KU campus in the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon on Sunday.
Marathon runners round the Chi Omega fountain on the Kansas University campus in the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon on Sunday. More than 1,500 runners competed in various races that ran through southwest Lawrence and the KU campus.
Runners head west from Naismith Drive on Crescent Road through a residential neighborhood just west of the Kansas University campus. All three races in the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon wound through southwest Lawrence and the KU campus.
More than 1,500 runners competed in various races from Shenk Field at 23rd and Iowa Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon.
Long shadows were cast by the early morning sun as runners in the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon hit the streets of Lawrence on Sunday morning.
Jessica Willems, Lawrence, pushes her two sons, Benjamin, 4, and Nathaniel, 8 months, under the blanket, during a race. Her mother, Julie Longinger, also of Lawrence, lent a hand.
Father and daughter Josh Smith and Alexis Smith, 8, hit the finish line together during the 2010 Kansas Half Marathon event in Lawrence. Grade school students can sign up for a free "One Mile At A Time" marathon program that kicks off Sunday at the Clinton Parkway Hy-Vee store in Lawrence. The goal is to run a marathon between Sunday and the 2012 Kansas Half Marathon, which is April 22. Students who reach the goal will be recognized during the April event.
Sammy Rotich of Des Moines, Iowa, won the half-mile marathon at The Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon, Sunday, April 18, 2010. More than 1,500 runners competed in various races from Shenk Field near 23rd and Iowa Streets.
Dave Weston, of Bentonville, Ark., crosses the finish line in the Lynn Electric Kansas Marathon on Sunday. More than 1,500 runners competed in various races from Shenk Field near 23rd and Iowa Streets.
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