Lynn Flanagan

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Longtime race director Lynn Flanagan’s new book is called ‘A Life In Motion’ and it chronicles her life from when she left her abusive husband with her four kids and became one of the first women to put on a major marathon. Through her never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, Lynn Flanagan changed the world of running for the…

On Top of the World

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I wrote this article several years ago, and it stays with me to this day. On the anniversary of 9/11, I think of the Birnbaum family, and all of the families who were changed forever.   About four and a half hours into the January 2002 edition of the San Diego Marathon, race director Lynn Flanagan…