Some crewers ran 80 kilometers, completely anonymously, just to keep their runner on a specific pace.

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You needed to keep a runner on for that.

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If you constantly have to write, you need ideas just like a runner needs to eat to keep running.

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Obviously, we can keep our fingers crossed and hope the runner has recovered from his injury, but there are problems with this thinking.

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Yamauchi, Britain's leading woman runner, was unable to keep up with the pace but was happy with her time of 70:39 as she builds up towards a tilt at November's New York Marathon.

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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the front-runner for the Democratic mayoral nomination, said she would keep the bullpen, primarily because she doesn't want to spend any taxpayer money to redo the office.

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But Mr. de Blasio charged that the Democratic front-runner hadn't been listening to workers, and he pledged to keep the issue alive during the campaign.

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