The daughter of Cheryl Bridges, who once held the world record in the marathon, Flanagan had been an insatiable runner, splitting her time between world marathon majors and track events.
Meanwhile, two of the runners split around the sides, hoping to head Clinton off.
For this quest, the 20 runners split into three vans, each handling a third of the course.
Runners' split times are to be posted periodically on Sunday at www.nycmarathon.org until the final results are available.
The field of twenty-four runnersplitintontwotwo groups, one on either side of the wide Newmarket course.
Computers calculate runners' splits and send the information over cellular networks to application users.
(Runners are split up if they make it to the final loop, with alternating racers running in opposite directions).
The great hope, then, is that perhaps two Democratic front-runners will split Iowa and Hew Hampshire and then come to Nevada as the rubber-match tie breaker before heading into the February 5 Super-Duper Tuesday.
It just seems awfully strange to have her go from the front-runner to the no-runner in a split second, even if the personal reasons thing is true.
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The winner will get $30,000 in college scholarships and runners-up will split another $120,000 in scholarship money.
