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At
the start, the temperature was approximately 36 degrees
and 29 with the wind chill.
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Alan
Culpepper, considered by many to be the race favorite,
warms up.
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Right
from the gun Peter Clusener (aka "Crazy Pete")
jumped out to a lead.
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Teddy
Mitchell was the only runner who tried to go after
Clusener.
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Mitchell
moved into the lead in the second mile.
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The
runners in the pack didn't seem too worried about
the two early frontrunners.
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All
of the favorites hung back in the pack early on.
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Teddy
Mitchell led through five miles in 25:29 with Brian
Sell in second (25:44).
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Jason
Lehmkuhle leads the pack.
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The
pack caught Clusener right around the five-mile mark.
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Brian
Sell was the only runner from the pack who decided
to go after Teddy Mitchell.
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Sell
caught and passed Mitchell relatively quickly and
built a tremendous...
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...lead
on the field. Sell eventually stretched his lead over
the field out to more than a minute.
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Alan
Culpepper leads the chase pack.
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Scott
Larson (with David Morris and Ryan Shay) runs in the
pack.
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Kevin
Collins and Josh Cox pull a still relatively large
pack along.
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Brian
Sell led by about 41 seconds at the halfway point
and 59 seconds at 15 miles.
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After
a while, the pack, mostly led by Culpepper and Meb
Keflezighi, began to pick up the pace and go after
Sell.
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Josh
Cox begins to drop back from the chase pack.
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About
halfway through the second of three downtown loops,
it's (L-R) Dan Browne, Keflezighi, Trent Briney, Culpepper,
and Larson (with Eddy Hellebuyck obscured and Brian
Sell still out front).
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