Jon Mitchell
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Dear Readers,
When a few hundred runners line up to compete at the U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Atlanta on Feb. 29, Jamie Adkins will be one of them — she squeaked her way in, finishing just two seconds ahead of the cutoff time in a popular qualifying race last weekend.
At the California International Marathon in Sacramento on Sunday, Adkins, whose full-time job is not running, was the last woman to finish in under two hours, 45 minutes, the time needed to qualify to run in the Olympic Marathon trials.