The sight of Gelana hitting the ground hard nine miles in will have made the organisers wince, let alone the runner herself – the potential for such a disastrous crash has long been flagged up by the wheelchair competitors – but otherwise it was a day to savour given the events in Boston a week ago.
Each is estimated to be 20 or so miles in diameter, making them the smallest of Pluto's moons so far.
The new up-close images show that Pluto is slightly larger than we thought -2,370 kilometres (1,473 miles) in diameter - making it undisputedly the largest dwarf planet in the solar system.
In October, volunteers cleared and marked its final four and a half miles, in the Green Mountain National Forest, which makes up 80 miles of the trail.
A proposed highway project, State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway), will form a third loop outside of Houston, totaling 180 miles in length and making an almost-complete circumference, with the exception of crossing the ship channel.
Zanetti has put in the hard miles in training to make himself available at any time when the coach calls on his experience.
Because of the 1932 Byrd Road Act, the state government controls most of Virginia's roads, instead of a local county authority as is usual in other states., the Virginia Department of Transportation owns and operates 57867 mile of the total 70105 mile of roads in the state, making it the third largest state highway system in the United States.
The EU agency Frontex said that the country has become "the favorite" jumping off point for migrants wanting to get into Europe, with migrants traveling thousands of miles in order to make the boat journey from Libya's shores.
"The best (management) is local" not "bureaucrats thousand of miles away" in Washington making the decisions, she said, drawing on her experience as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, before becoming that state's governor.
