The absence of practice sessions makes the hour-and-a-half race-morning course inspection all the more crucial.
The Irish 2, 000 Guineas winner went off at 4-6 but was held up by jockey Richard Hughes until the final half-furlong of the mile-long race.
So at the end of the 6.2-mile race, which is a half-hour long, a lot of running, Begley realizes her competition is with the clock and she kicks it into high gear.
The highlight of this half-marathon is when the race enters the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and runners lap the famed oval before exiting and heading for the finish line.
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Tom Shanklin - perhaps fortunate to still be on the field after a clumsy challenge in the air on Imanol Harinordoquy - got beyond the gain-line and from there fly-half Jones picked out Byrne's superb angle for the full-back to race 35 untouched metres to the line.
The Woodhall Spa rider finished ahead of Bruce Anstey in the first race although it ended amid confusion with the officials failing to wave the chequered flag which led to Plater and Anstey continuing to ride hard for over half-a-lap before realising that the race was over.
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The hosts should have put the result beyond Scarlets' reach on the stroke of half-time, when Robertson won a foot-race to Matt Mustchin's forward kick.
Runners will be offered spots in next year's race or in the New York City half-marathon in March.
Mike Blair sensed where the space was and the scrum-half zipped the ball right where Cairns was waiting to race over.
Sebastian Vettel who was chasing Hamilton for the first half of the race eventually finished fourth after incurring a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
Its premier, Hernus Kriel, once served as police minister but came to shun the national arena in order to build support among the province's minority white population and the Coloured (mixed-race) voters who make up more than half its electorate.
"It's not exactly the race distance, but half an hour should be enough -- and then we'll prepare for the time attack!"
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Of those, half must go to very poor students, and black, mixed-race or Amerindian students must be admitted according to their share of the local population.
Centre Jamie was the architect as he intercepted an Edinburgh pass in the visitors' 22 and fly-half Nicky was on his shoulder to take the pass and race under the posts.
The day's first track and field gold medal went to Ethiopia's Meseret Defar, who bested Kenya's Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot by less than half a second to win the women's 5, 000-meter race.
Providing ground conditions do not become too testing and despite slight concerns over the four-and-a-half mile distance, Forest Gunner will take his place in a race watched by an estimated global audience of 500 million TV viewers.
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Gloucestershire skipper Jon Lewis rang the changes to no avail and it soon became a race to see whether Hick or Solanki would reach a half century first - Hick pipping his captain by doing so from 33 deliveries against 37.
During her voyage the longest she could sleep at a time was half-an-hour, and she averaged less than five hours a day throughout the race.
They asked students to imagine they were running a five-kilometre race against 50 people and then against 500 (or, in half of the cases, the other way round).
In Lillehammer even less time separated the two, and if all four runs had been run as a single race, Hackl would have won the three-and-a-half miles by less than 14 inches.
He beat Solwhit by a length-and-a-half in the Hatton's Grace Hurdle after Zaidpour's win in the previous race.
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The young Wales star fed replacement scrum-half Richie Rees and his sublime pass out of the back of the hand gave Halfpenny the space to race over behind the posts.
That extra race revenue advances the Half Full mission of raising funds for cancer, as does Armstrong's cancer-battling track record, said Satola, adding that he would permanently trade USAT certification for Armstrong's participation.
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