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Run, Meb, Run!

By Helene Elliott
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Congratulations are due to Meb Keflezighi, who won the U.S. men’s cross-country title today in Derwood, Md.

Keflezighi, the Athens Olympic silver medalist in the marathon, finished the 12-kilometer course in 36 minutes 6 seconds, barely holding off Tim Nelson down the stretch.

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For Keflezighi, a UCLA alum, this was his third national cross-country championship and 18th USA Track and Field title. He’s planning on running the London Marathon in April.

You can find more info about his training, plans and his previous win at the Houston half-marathon at his website.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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