The absence of practice sessions makes the hour-and-a-half race-morning course inspection all the more crucial.
The Australian dropped to eighth after his first pit stop on lap 19, but he was back in the lead by just after half race distance.
The Reading Half Marathon race director says he has safety concerns after finding the highest number of potholes in the event's history along the route.
Webber, who battled with Button for more than half the race in Valencia, could finish only ninth as the Red Bulls struggled to find any pace on the stop-start street circuit and is now 20.5 points behind Button.
Greene, who won the European Championships earlier this season, ran a measured race and was not fazed by Angelo Taylor blasting past him in the first half of the race and he steadily reeled the American in as he finished strongly in 48.26 seconds.
The second half is a race, and we've got to be prepared for it.
For the first half of the race, Bikila seemed happy to hang back, letting the European runners decide the pace.
Some progress is being made, but as in a marathon, it is the second half of the race that is the most agonising.
Mr. Farah, who is building up to the marathon distance, ran only the first half of the race, finishing in less than an hour.
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.
Chin said that if she were to try to keep pace with the top women for the first half of the race, she probably would be so exhausted that she'd wind up walking by the end.
When the race got underway, Carter blasted away and took a couple of metres out of Gay but the fastest man in the world this year kept his form to power away in the second half of the race.
The early finish meant the top eight drivers were awarded half points as the race had not reached 75% distance.
The ferry will start on 23 May to tie in with the Mull of Kintyre Half Marathon and 10k race three days later.
For the first time the women's race started half an hour ahead of the men's, partly to try and alleviate the problem of crowded roads.
The list of ways that men can put their shoulders to the wheel and help unleash the brainpower of the other half of the human race is endless.
All Blacks centre Conrad Smith scored early in the first half when he won the race to dive on a Richie McCaw grubber kick over the Springbok line.
"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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So why not start with a 10K race instead of the half-marathon?
Last August, with just 31 games to play in the regular season, the Cardinals were 10 and a half games out of the playoff race.
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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Under original guidelines, riders would not be allowed to use their own mobile phone anywhere on the racecourse from half an hour before the first race until the start of the last.
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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.
But when presented with a recent race request from Armstrong, Half Full for this year decided to sacrifice its USAT certification.
The race is the second largest half marathon in the country and is popular with runners training for the London Marathon in April.
But he has half a point when he argues that race relations in Britain are at least as good as in most other rich countries.
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.
Frischknecht had met Adrien more than a half decade ago at the Cape Epic bike race, in South Africa.
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Briscoe then skipped away from a couple of challenges to outpace the Saints defence and race in from inside his own half.
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