About 9,000 participate in 5th annual Berkeley Half Marathon

Mitch Negus was a notoriously slow athlete as a child. But Sunday, Negus, 23, earned seventh place in the annual Berkeley Half Marathon with a time of 1:15:34.
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Mitch Negus was a notoriously slow athlete as a child. But Sunday, Negus, 23, earned seventh place in the annual Berkeley Half Marathon with a time of 1:15:34.
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Early Sunday morning, thousands of runners and spectators alike crowded a sold-out starting line at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park as part of this year’s Berkeley Half Marathon.
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It was an atypical Sunday morning for the City of Berkeley. Runners picked up their race gear Friday and Saturday at Memorial Stadium (courtesy of Cal Athletics) and marked their territory Sunday, racing 3.1 or 13.1 miles to support the Berkeley Public School Fund. If you were awake early enough, you
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Friends and family remember Kenneth Speirs as “a gift to the students” – a professor who encouraged creativity and instilled confidence in his pupils.
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Lark Ryan, the race’s marketing and outreach coordinator, said the course depended on the permits they were able to settle with the city. She said that she hopes to cooperate with the city to get better permits and, consequently, a better course for possible future races.
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Berkeley will host a half-marathon on Nov. 24, marking the first race of its kind to take place in the city.
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