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Bronx Woman Wins LI Marathon

05/02/2010 18:30:00 By Peter Milosheff, viewed 2,988 times.
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On Sunday May 2, 2010 the 38th Annual Long Island Marathon was held.

A 27 year old attorney from Lynbrook, Daniel McGrath, won with an unofficial time of 2:29:44 and a 28 year old Bronx woman running the race for the first time, Lilia Britez, won with an unofficial time of 3:20:22. McGrath had won the marathon two years.

Although the temperature at the start of the race was a friendly 68 degrees, there was a high level of humidity with an expectation of rain. At about the time that McGrath was crossing the finish line, runners who were just reaching the 10-mile mark were being diverted from the planned race course because of concerns that they would be unable to finish within the six hour time limit.

Despite the weather, over 8,000 runners participated in the two day Festival of Races, which included a 1 Mile, 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon over the weekend. This was a significant increase over last year and is the highest level of participation in the last 13 years of this event.

 

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graduated from St. John's University in 2007. Since then he has been freelancing for different magazines and newspapers. He also has radio experience when he worked at WBAI (99.5) in New York. Some of the publications he has written for include the Norwood News, a community newspaper, The Bronx News Network, a community website, The Source Magazine, Urban Latino Magazine, Latin Trends Magazine, Financial Planning Magazine and On Wall Street Magazine to name a few.