Connecting the Twins Twin Cities Marathon, USA
Connecting the twins Twin Cities Marathon, USA. 2 October 2005 By Sergey Porada and and Sinclair Lewis, the first At 06.45 on race day the Interfaith banks of Mississippi, which Yelena Kurdyumova American to win the Nobel Prize Worship Service for the earned the race the title “Most for Literature, lived in Minnesota marathoners started in the Beautiful Urban Marathon in Minneapolis and St. Paul are at different times. Today, with a Lutheran Church of Minneapolis. America.” There are 12,000 lakes cities both connected and combined population of 2.9 For many athletes it was a good in Minnesota, and the name million, the Twin Cities form the way to deal with the challenge means “sky blue waters” in the divided by that great natural ahead. By 08.00 excited runners language of Indians from the symbol of the American 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States and their world- gathered at the start line in Dacota tribe. nation, the Mississippi River. Minneapolis, near the Metrodome famous “Mall of America,” is the Locals just call it “The River”. Stadium. Some were equipped At dawn, an hour earlier than the largest in the US. On any given with headphones and water packs, marathon, 4,500 participants set off There is friendly rivalry day, but perhaps especially on between the Twins, going back some dressed in Batman in from the Metrodome in the Marathon day, you find visitors costumes and pumpkin suits, opposite direction, in a 10-mile to the 19th century when each there from all 50 states and nearly wearing frog hats, bird masks and race which took “A Short Cut to the city padded the 1890 census every corner of the world.
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