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The Lake Natoma Four Bridges run has been rebranded and rerouted. It will be called the Folsom Blues Breakout Half Marathon.

The Sacramento Running Association will induct eight into its inaugural Hall of Fame class tonight at a 6 o'clock dinner at the Sheraton Grand Hotel.

Seven legends are scheduled to be inducted into the Sacramento Running Association's first Hall of Fame class on Jan. 26 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, according to a news release.

The weekend storm complicated cleanup from Sunday morning's California International Marathon, as runners donned garbage bags for rain protection, then discarded the bags as they warmed up.

During the first half of Sunday's California International Marathon, while being pelted by rain and battling a head wind, Daniel Tapia turned to the runner beside him and made a remark that sounded promising, if not downright surprising.

Duane and Cheryl Hotaling have been in a marathon for more than a year.

As one of 12 people credited with running every California International Marathon, Auburn's Tim Twiet-meyer was asked where Sunday ranked among the worst weather the race has seen in its 30 years.

Americans Daniel Tapia and Alisha Williams are the winners of the 30th California International Marathon. Both ran through consistent and at times driving rains that pelted the Folsom-to-Sacramento course.

Thousands of peoples will be running from Folsom to the state Capitol on Dec. 2 for the 30th annual California International Marathon.

In years such as this, race director John Mansoor expects a smaller field of elite runners for the California International Marathon.

Organizers and participants in the California International Marathon, which has earned a reputation over the years for its pleasant weather on race day, are bracing for a turbulent experience when the event turns 30 on Sunday morning.

Nearly an inch of rain fell in Sacramento on Dec. 3, 1983, a Saturday, leaving Steve Haun to wonder if he should reconsider his plans for the next morning. Running the inaugural California International Marathon seemed a lot less appealing in stormy weather.

If you haven't thought of it by now, it's too late to run in the California International Marathon on Sunday. The event is full, and besides, there's all that training you didn't do.

It's Sacramento's largest group exercise event, a chance for thousands to take to the streets for a charitable cause before piling on the calories.

They reigned supreme that Thanksgiving Day in 1994. No one in the field of 1,157 runners on the streets of east Sacramento could touch Paul Thomas or Theresa McCourt, male and female winners of the inaugural Run to Feed the Hungry.

Every Thanksgiving Day, in an act as ritualized as mixing the mashed potatoes or snapping the wishbone, Robert Cook puts on his sweats and flip-flops, props up his folding chair and spends hours cheering on the participants in the Run to Feed the Hungry.

By age 18, Donald Edd-Harrison had been in and out of the juvenile hall system, and had become a high school dropout with a drug problem.

With thousands of runners and walkers expected for the annual Run to Feed the Hungry in east Sacramento on Thursday, race officials have announced two changes to help with traffic flow before and after the event.

For 19 years, Run to Feed the Hungry has generated money for programs of the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.

Erisan Torres' parents say she was a shy and timid fifth-grader when she first started attending the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services' youth education program.

Christian Landa was pronounced dead at the scene of his motorcycle crash.

When Moria Osario was 4, her mother was using a wheelchair and her father left the family.

After being laid off during the height of the recession and unable to find another job in Kansas City, Mo., April Hewlett, a single mother, moved with her family to Sacramento to live with a sister.

For the past two years, Cynthia Robertson, a single mother of five, has visited the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services clothing program to outfit her kids for special events.

Each year, the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services' clothing program hands out shoes, jackets and other clothing to needy families.

A neighbor told Gayle Woodward, a senior citizen living on a fixed income, about the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services' food program.

Bennie Manning Jr. is a divorced father of four and is looking for work.

After enduring an abusive husband and a nervous breakdown, Andrea Edwards says she lost her job as a supervisor at a bank, turned to alcohol to deal with her problems and ended up living on and off the streets for 20 years.

The stench of death hung heavily over Gibson Ranch Regional Park on Saturday.

The lead cyclist guiding the fastest runners among 4,000 participating in Sunday's Urban Cow Half-Marathon made a wrong turn in Land Park, an error that added more than a half mile to the event, possibly affecting qualifying times for some runners.

The American River Parkway Foundation has received a $30,000 donation from the running organization Sacramento Friends in Training, the foundation announced Wednesday.

The Sacramento Running Association's newly-formed Hall of Fame has named its first inductee – Olympic gold medalist distance runner Billy Mills.

The California International Marathon, run on a fast course, is also gaining a reputation for filling its entry field in a hurry.

The annual UC Davis Blue-Gold football scrimmage is tonight at Aggie Stadium at 7 p.m.

Sign-ups are being accepted for the Run to Remember, an event honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

Patrick Scott is no stranger to Eppie's Great Race. He helped organize the first race in 1974 and has participated in nearly 30 races since, having completed about 15 of them in the Ironman division – kayaking, bicycling and running.

Western States 2012 will be remembered as the year of records broken, on both timing clocks and thermometers.

On an unusually cool summer day, Timothy Olson, 28, rounded the Placer High School track Saturday night for the first sub-15-hour finish in the history of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run.

With 98 miles behind her, ascending the final twisting canyon trail to Auburn in darkness, Ellie Greenwood knew she had the women's title of the 2011 Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run in the bag.

Sacramento police officer Randy Van Dusen vows to keep running, walking, crawling – whatever it takes – to finish under the 30-hour time limit at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run.

Kilian Jornet, the defending Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run champion and widely considered the world's best ultrarunner, has dropped out of Saturday's race from Squaw Valley to Auburn following the death of a close friend in a climbing accident in the Alps.

About 4,100 participants – a record for the Kaiser Permanente Women's Fitness Festival – who registered for the run and walk that began on Ninth Street near Capitol Mall, circled through midtown and finished on 10th Street in front of the state Capitol.

Experiencing a historic run – from the Big Sur International Marathon to the Boston Marathon to the Peachtree road race in Atlanta – is rewarding.

Roughly 18,000 people attended Saturday's Komen Race for the Cure at Cal Expo, the first since the national organization's ill-fated January decision to stop giving funds to Planned Parenthood – a move it later rescinded.

Friday Night Lights here connote something far, far different than in most places.

With her pink ribbons and can-do attitude, Sonia Susac raised $40,000 last year to become one of the leading fundraisers for the annual Komen Race for the Cure in the Sacramento Valley.

More than 3,000 runners have already registered for the Dec. 2 California International Marathon.

Despite the fact that they're a few decades older than most first-time half-marathoners, Phyllis McGee and Helen Baker don't really know why people are making a fuss about them.

There is no shortage of comic potential when someone runs around with their underwear worn outside their clothing.

The Capitals protected their rights to Mardy Fish, the top-ranked American male singles player in the world, with the seventh pick in Tuesday's World TeamTennis marquee draft, the team announced.