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Over the past 11 years Desi Linden has started 15 marathons, finished 14 of them, is a two time Olympian and has come in second three times one time by only two seconds at Boston But until this year she had never broken the tape. Her story is one of perseverance. After graduating from Arizona State University she had no major sponsors and talked her way onto the Hansen-Brooks training group in Michigan. Linden drifted back from the pack while Flanagan made a pit stop, and together they ran back to catch the leaders.

Taking the focus off of her own pain and offering an assist to the other Americans got Linden out of her own bad patch. Sara Sellers is a 26 year old nurse anesthetist from Arizona running her 2nd marathon. She competed well in college at Weber State University but took time off to heal from injury. Her first marathon was in Sept. Yuki Kawauchi started to be well known in his home country after running the Tokyo Marathon in Despite his busy schedule he has run 79 sub marathons including his PR and 25 sub marathons.

He trains differently than most top athletes by only running once a day and making up the most of his mileage on his days off from his job. So far in has run four marathons, winning all of them. On a day when the conventional running wisdom dictated that it would be absolute suicide to take the lead early and bear the brunt of the gale-force winds, Kawauchi not only took the lead, but jetted out at sub-world record pace for the first mile, opening up a huge gap between himself and the rest of the field.

The pack reeled him in a few miles down the road, but Kawauchi put in surges throughout the morning, to the bafflement of the commentators. However, on a day that saw 23 DNFs among elites , including bandit-mode Galen Rupp, who apparently suffered symptoms of asthma and hypothermia Kawauchi never gave in.

For the longest time, it looked certain that pre-race favorite Kirui would triumph, especially after the latter ripped through the Newton Hills to give himself a one-and-a-half-minute cushion at 35K. But then, suddenly, it was Kirui who was handed that piano. When he surrendered his lead to a once-again surging Kawauchi with just over a mile to go, there was no fight left. But you knew something was up when Linden and Flanagan appeared to be chatting early on.

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