Paula Radcliffe for the World Record at 2003 London Marathon
The women's senior race was a bit of an upset as well, as Emily Chebet, the 2010 World Cross Country Championship winner, came back to win the 2013 World Cross Country Championship title in Bydgoszcz, Poland today, March 24, 2013. 
After the Mile, by Jere Longman, NYTimes
Tim Danielson was among an exclusive group of runners who broke the elusive four-minute barrier. Now he is a runner shackled, charged with killing his ex-wife.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/sports/after-the-mile-the-tim-danielson-story.html?smid=pl-share
Photo used with permission of the B.A.A. (From The B.A.A. at 125).
The B.A.A. at 125
The Official
History of the Boston Athletic Association, 1887-2012
By John Hanc
Foreword by Matt Damon
Sports Publishing
hardcover, also available as an ebook
On
Sale: April 2013
ISBN:
978-1-61321-198-4
Price:
$24.95
In American sports history, there are but a handful of athletics clubs that can date their pedigrees back into the middle and late nineteenth century. One of the most historic, and colorful, is the Boston Athletic Association. It is a fact that the B.A.A. had nine of the fourteen US athletes who competed in the 1896 Olympics, the first of the modern Olympiad. It is a fact that the B.A.A. founded the first marathon in the U.S., in 1897, and it is a fact that the start of the modern health club benefitted from B.A.A. club, then located in the Back Bay.
The B.A.A. at 125 is much more than a book of facts. John Hanc ably describes the sports world, and the contempory world, over the 125 years of the evolution of this modern sports club. The Boston Marathon, founded by the B.A.A. is the most iconic marathon on the globe. In 1986, the B.A.A. accepted the sponsorship of the John Hancock Financial Services Company, and took the Boston Marathon, and the sport, into a new era.
And the characters of the B.A.A.? A more colorful lot of athletes, coaches, officials would be hard to collect. John Hanc, the author, over the 114 pages and one hundred photographs, does a yeoman's job at giving the reader a real feel of the Boston Athletic Association. This is a must read for any sports fan, and especially, if one runs or follows the sport of athletics...