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Deena
Drossin warms up for the race.
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Jeanne
Hennessy of Mahopac, NY.
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Katherine
Switzer models the shirt from the first New York Mini.
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Jen
Rhines talks with NYRR Executive vice president and COO Mary Wittenberg.
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Nearly
4,000 runners line up on the starting line.
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The
elite athletes get ready for the gun... and to start their watches.
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The
31st running of the New York Mini gets underway.
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The
frontrunners include #14 Jen Rhines, #1 Deena Drossin and #2 Sonia
O'Sullivan.
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Also
up there is #3 Lornah Kiplagat.
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Kiplagat
and O'Sullivan move into the lead.
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O'Sullivan
and Kiplagat lead the stream of runners up Central Park West.
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Behind
O'Sullivan and Kiplagat are #8 Olivera Jevtic of Yugoslavia and
Asmae Leghzaoui of Morocco.
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O'Sullivan
hails from Ireland and Kiplagat from Kenya.
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Kiplagat
runs her own training camp for women in Kenya. The camp was recently
featured in this
article.
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Jevtic,
Leghzaoui, Drossin, Ejagayou Dibaba, Eyerusalem Kuma and Ludmila
Petrova trail O'Sullivan and Kiplagat.
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The
leaders passed through the mile in 4:51, eight seconds ahead of
Paula Radcliffe's pace during her record-setting run a year ago.
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As
they headed into Central Park, a pack of three - Kiplagat, Leghzaoui
and O'Sullivan began to break away. Drossin led the second pack
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Shortly
after the group of three broke away, it became a group of two, with
Sonia O'Sullivan dropping off th pace.
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Asmae
Leghzaoui and Lornah Kiplagat passed through two miles in 9:42,
16 seconds ahead of Paula Radcliffe's pace a year ago.
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At
this point, Kiplagat seemed to be the one who was controlling the
pace.
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