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Jason
Lehmkuhle (left) and Keith Dowling led the chase pack...
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they approached the two-mile mark.
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Peter
Clusener ran in second place, behind Teddy Mitchell
and ahead of the pack.
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Clusener,
26, began his collegiate career at SUNY-Stony Brook
before transferring to...
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...Humboldt
State. With a 2:19:31 PR, no one in the pack seemed
particularly worried about...
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...Clusener
and Mitchell running out front.
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Clusener
didn't seem too worried, either, as he had a smile
on his face much of the way.
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The
pack gradually made up ground on Clusener...
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...and
caught him in the fourth mile.
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By
that point, Teddy Mitchell had a big lead, but he
was still within sight of the pack.
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The
early solo running eventually took its toll on...
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...on
Mitchell and Clusener as neither finished the race.
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Mitchell
came back the next day to finish second in the Mercedes
Half-Marathon.
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Brian
Sell pulled away from the pack and set out to reel
in Mitchell.
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Sell
caught Mitchell not long before the seven-mile mark.
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Despite
his modest 2:20:01 PR, several experts picked Sell
as a likely candidate to make the Olympic team.
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Sell
later said that he knew he wasn't going to make the
team by sticking with the leaders and outrunning them
at the end.
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Sell
opted for a bolder tactic instead - running away from
the field. Sell caught and passed Mitchell relatively
quickly...
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...and
from then on, it was a solo run for Sell.
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Sell
had impressive credentials at the half-marathon and
20K, but had only run one marathon.
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