Yesterday, our guests Mohamad Ahansal and Amanda Stickel won the 2009 City of Trees Marathon.  Even though he was off course for over 8 minutes, covering extra mileage, Mohamad pulled out a victory in his first race in cold, rainy conditions.  Amanda, who is training for the World 50K championships in Gibraltar, Spain at the end of the month, ran a smart race staying just behind the top three females until mile 14 and finishing more than 13 minutes ahead of the second place woman while setting a course record in 3:01:43, which was good for 8th overall.  Great job you two on what was a successful training weekend!