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Wilhelmina Austin of Edgewood was honored for her performance in the Gulden Invitational indoor track and field meet in Lewisburg, Pa., Saturday.

As a sprinter, Jimmia McCluskey has long been known for her quick starts. Now the Aberdeen High School alum is making a quick start in NCAA Division I track and field as a freshman at Temple University.

Seven Harford Countians completed a unique running challenge Sunday in Orlando, Fla., the Dopey Challenge.

A record number of runners turned out January 1 in Joppa for a traditional New Year's Day battle against steep hills and cold winds.

Collegiate athletes Elizabeth Tauber, Wilhelmina Austin, and Lenier Tucker collectively earned a Harford County triple Saturday in an invitational indoor track meet at Princeton University.

Within a year after an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan cost him his sight in September 2011, Navy Lt. Brad Snyder had won seven gold medals at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs as well as one silver and two gold medals at the Paralympics in London.

Tyler Muse and Elizabeth Tauber each set a swift pace in the 18th annual Turkey Trot 5K in Bel Air last Thursday, stretching out a densely packed field of record size.

After Tom Linsenmeyer committed suicide in 2001, his brothers and sister decided the best way to keep the student athlete's memory alive would be a run for charity.

Athletes Serving Athletes and other Baltimore-based groups help those with physical challenges to bike, run and swim in mainstream events.

The Little Gunpowder 50K, a little ultra-marathon race in Joppa on Saturday, was a Thompson-led event.

Catonsivlle Turkey Trot expects to draw 1,000 runners on Thanksgiving

It has been 37 years since Bill Fornoff first hit the road in his running shoes. Now, he is retiring from the sport, reluctantly. There is no mandatory retirement age for runners of course, but at 70, he will be giving it up, somewhat ceremoniously on Thanksgiving Day.

As Catholic's Ellie Gonzalez staked out a lead in the Girls Elite race of the Spiked Shoe Invitational in September, she felt a familiar urge. She needed to throw up. So with a runner breathing down her neck, Gonzalez puked and kept going. Nausea and vomiting after intense competition are not out of the ordinary.

Howard County Rec sports submissions for the week of Nov. 21

Fred Schumacher of Frederick and Paul Betker of Hagerstown are longtime competitors in the JFK 50 Mile race, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month.

With her wheelchair pushed aside, Erika Brannock gripped her walker and moved slowly toward the Thunder Road 5K finish line.

Runners of the Harford Community College cross-country team set the pace for a record field in the fifth annual Heather L. Hurd 5K Saturday.

Gary Smolyak, an Atholton High School graduate,

The John Carroll girls' cross-country team presented a championship encore to conclude its championship season Saturday, winning the Maryland-D.C. Private School Championship in Gaithersburg.

The Perryville boys cross country team was better than all other Class 1A teams Saturday at the Maryland State Cross Country Championships held at McDaniel College in Westminster.

Hundreds of people donned sneakers on a crisp, sunny Sunday morning to show their support for a Maryland state trooper critically injured on the job last month.

Five hundred fifty runners and walkers broke records in attendance and in funds raised at the Fifth Annual Heather L. Hurd 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk on Nov. 9 at Harford Community College.

An amicable race within a race produced triumph and personal bests for three Bel Air runners in the New York City Marathon Sunday.

Carroll runner to be remembered on Wakefield Valley Community Trail

In a performance described as perfect, the John Carroll girls won the IAAM Cross-Country Championship at Hunt Valley Oct. 30.

If there were surprises in the ninth annual UCBAC Cross-Country Championships at Elkton last Thursday, it wasn't in who won. It was in their margins of victory.

The Hairfield's of Abingdon dominated the sixth annual running of the Dustin Bauer Memorial 5K Sunday in Hunt Valley.

Janet McAdorey of Bel Air raced to her second double-victory in the Komen Maryland Race for the Cure Sunday in Hunt Valley.

Equipped with a small gladiator shield, plastic sword and red cape, Beth Lewis, 48, said her daughter talked her into completing in the Tomato Run 5K at Ripken Stadium for her birthday. Before the race began, she said she hopes her shield will block her and keep her from getting too messy.

Howard County sports notices for the week of Oct. 24

Howard County rec sports for the week of Oct. 24

Participation in Sunday morning's Komen Maryland Race for the Cure dipped from last year, the second time in as many outings that the signature fundraising event for cancer research has experienced such declines.

Harford cross-country teams began final preparations Tuesday for next week's conference championships by running the final tri and quad meets of the season.

About 800 Harford Countians joined the crowd of 27,000 runners at M&T Bank Stadium Saturday for the races of the 13th annual Baltimore Running Festival.

Winners of the Baltimore Marathon were left high and dry by organizers

Early Saturday morning Officer Vinny Julio stood in the intersection of Chase and Washington Streets idly twirling a wooden police baton on his first assignment since graduating from the police academy the day before.

Creative costumes have become a key element of the annual Baltimore Running Festival.

David Berdan, a Garrison Forest teacher and cross country coach won the Baltimore Marathon Saturday.

City police and organizers of this weekend's Baltimore Marathon say they are stepping up security after explosions shook the end of the Boston race this spring, joining other recent running events that have placed restrictions around the finish line.

With the Baltimore Running Festival and other popular fall footraces fast approaching, local runners have struggled in recent weeks with daylight has grown scarce on either side of normal business hours.

Erika Brannock has not been to an organized race since April, when the first of two homemade bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line so badly injured the 29-year-old Towson preschool teacher that doctors were forced to amputate her left leg above the knee.

In case spectators, residents and other visitors need a hand to prepare for the Baltimore Running Festival, here's a handful of things to keep in mind on race day.

Dan Bosley and Lori Wilson led the way in the Monster Dash 5K, an earlier-than-usual Halloween-themed race at the Arena Club in Bel Air Saturday.

The mourning process hasn't been simple for those who ran in Boston, even for those who weren't at the finish line at the time of the bombings. On Saturday, Greene and other Boston survivors will participate in the Baltimore Running Festival, which includes a marathon, half marathon, relay, 5K and kids fun run.

Fall is a beautiful season, and a wonderful way to celebrate is at Fall Fest, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 4-8 p.m., hosted by Grace Episcopal Church, 6720 Montgomery Road, in Elkridge.

Rob Tisch and Danielle Kays led all the way in the RASAC Fall Duathon Sunday in Churchville.

The crowds gathered as the Elkridge Food Pantry hosted its annual Give Where You Live 5K Family Fun Run/Walk.

Ryan Forsyth wins 5K race, leads Falcons to victory at 62nd annual invitational

Several hundred runners planning to participate in the Baltimore Running Festival are planning an organized training run Saturday morning.