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		<title>Bairu Explains Toronto Marathon Withdrawal</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/09/22/bairu-explains-toronto-marathon-withdrawal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/09/22/bairu-explains-toronto-marathon-withdrawal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his blog on September 20th, Simon Bairu announced the difficult decision to withdraw from this year&#8217;s Toronto Marathon, owing to what amounted to accumulated fatigue. The Canadian Record-Holder at 10,000m wrote, &#8220;As much as I would have loved to run in Canada in front of my friends and family for an opportunity to qualify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delilah Explains it All: Q&amp;A #2</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/07/29/delilah-explains-it-all-qa-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/07/29/delilah-explains-it-all-qa-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Delilah DiCrescenzo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another round of questions for Delilah turned up some fun answers. What about Coach Gags&#8217; personality as a coach do you like best? &#8212; Clint, Madison, WI Coach Gags understands the mental aspect of the sport really well. With the training year being so long, he is good about injecting a little bit of fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford: Jager Talks 1500m Comeback</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/05/06/stanford-jager-talks-1500m-comeback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 12:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evan Jager]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evan Jager opened up the 2011 season on Sunday by sticking his nose in a very competitive 1500m race at Stanford&#8217;s Payton Jordan Invitational. He came away with a very credible 3:40.52 in only his second full race since September of 2009. He discussed what he was thinking going into the race, and what he&#8217;s focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Week: Nelly Tackles the Tough Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/04/28/stanford-week-nelly-tackles-the-tough-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/04/28/stanford-week-nelly-tackles-the-tough-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tim Nelson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Nelson is the 10th-fastest American over 10,000m of all time, and is looking for more. He will run the Kim McDonald Memorial 10,000m this Sunday at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, the site of his two fastest 10,000m runs ever&#8230; including a break-out 27:36 win in 2009 that launched him just outside the list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Week: Teg Talks 10k</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/04/27/stanford-week-teg-talks-10k/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/04/27/stanford-week-teg-talks-10k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matt Tegenkamp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Tegenkamp is set to make his debut at 10,000m this Sunday in the Kim McDonald Memorial 10,000m at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. As the third American to ever break 13-minutes for 5000m, there is great excitement for his potential at the distance&#8230; only magnified by what must have seemed to running fans to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Punta Umbria: Andrew Bumbalough&#8217;s XCNation Q&amp;A</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/03/17/punta-umbria-bumbalough-xcnation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/03/17/punta-umbria-bumbalough-xcnation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KIMbia will be well represented this weekend at the IAAF World Championships in Cross Country, with Lineth Chepkurui captaining her Kenyan team, Shalane Flanagan and Brent Vaughn leading the US senior women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s teams, respectively, as the reigning national champions, and Andrew Bumbalough bringing experience from the 2006 junior race into his senior debut. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brent Vaughn: on Houston and Becoming a National Champion</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/02/10/brent-vaughn-on-houston-and-becoming-a-national-champion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/02/10/brent-vaughn-on-houston-and-becoming-a-national-champion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brent Vaughn is the Colorado University school record holder for 5000m with his 13:18 from 2008. However, it was only just this week that he joined forebearers such as Dathan Ritzenhein, Alan Culpepper, Jorge Torres, and Adam Goucher as a US National Title Winner.  By claiming the victory at Saturday&#8217;s USATF Cross Country Championships, Vaughn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Jason Hartmann</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/02/04/2010-highlight-jason-hartmann/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/02/04/2010-highlight-jason-hartmann/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jason Hartmann]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the 2012 Olympic Trials on the horizon, Jason Hartmann is taking his career to new heights at just the right time. Apart from a 4th-place finish and PB of 1:15:38 at the Fifth-Third River Run 25k, none of his performances early in 2010 gave any indication of the piece de resistance that awaited in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Rebecca Donaghue</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/27/2010-highlight-rebecca-donaghue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/27/2010-highlight-rebecca-donaghue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Donaghue had an injury-abbreviated 2010 &#8212; certainly a disappointment for someone who made such major strides the previous year. However, she found some positives  off the track &#8212; on the roads, and in mentoring one of America&#8217;s best up-and-coming high-school half-milers&#8230; What would you call the main highlight of 2010 for you, professionally or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Simon Bairu</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/19/2010-highlight-simon-bairu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/19/2010-highlight-simon-bairu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Chris Solinsky&#8216;s 26:59 and Shalane Flanagan&#8217;s 2nd-place finish in the NYC Marathon may have earned Jerry Schumacher 2010 Coach of the Year honors in the public&#8217;s mind, the breakout that Simon Bairu had in 2010 might be Schumacher&#8217;s finest achievement from a motivational standpoint.  After a sub-par performance in the Kim McDonald 10,000m at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: James Carney</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/13/2010-highlight-james-carney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/13/2010-highlight-james-carney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[James Carney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The marathon can be a cruel mistress, as the training can handicap your ability to perform optimally at shorter distances, and the full race itself can make your two annual attempts a bit of a crapshoot. James Carney says he lived that experience in 2010, logging a tough DNF in Chicago and falling short of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Andrew Bumbalough</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/12/2010-highlight-andrew-bumbalough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/12/2010-highlight-andrew-bumbalough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bumbalough]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Bumbalough had quite a busy year in 2010: the runner-version of &#8220;Huck Finn&#8221; (see bottom of link) took on a full spring slate as a collegiate athlete, going pro, a summer competing in Europe, a fall adjusting to a new city, a new team, and new goals for the future.  A 3rd-place showing at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Tim Nelson</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/11/2010-highlight-tim-nelson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/11/2010-highlight-tim-nelson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With teammates as talented (and as attention-grabbing) as his, it might seem like &#8220;the quiet conqueror&#8221; Tim Nelson gets lost in the shuffle at times. To wit: to run a PB and crack the Top-10 All-Time list for your country&#8230; yet get overshadowed in the same race by not one but TWO teammates is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Matt Tegenkamp</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/06/2010-highlight-matt-tegenkamp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/06/2010-highlight-matt-tegenkamp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matt Tegenkamp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Tegenkamp had an injury-abbreviated 2010, after making yet another world-level 5000m final, and winning a couple of national titles in 2009.  He ran three 1500&#8242;s, taking 8th at Nationals and hitting 3:36.12 as his season best &#8212; just under 2-seconds off of his PB. In his lone 5000m, Tegenkamp ran 13:25 at the Prefontaine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Highlight: Fasil Bizuneh</title>
		<link>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/05/2010-highlight-fasil-bizuneh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kimbia.net/2011/01/05/2010-highlight-fasil-bizuneh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Mosher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fasil Bizuneh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[chasingKIMbIA star Fasil Bizuneh has been plugging away as a pro for a several years, chipping away at his 10000m PB and creeping up in the results of National Championship after National Championship &#8212; the dedication and perseverance of his story make for a true macrocosm of what running is all about. And on August [...]]]></description>
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