In his four previous marathons, his fastest time was 2 hours 13 minutes 5 seconds.

Conover advanced the theory that he was, perhaps, helped by having run only one previous marathon.

The 5-foot-5, 125-pound Lee had run 25 previous marathons, including the past two Olympic events.

He will need to chop eight minutes off the 2 hours 23 minutes he ran three years ago in his only previous marathon.

Although she had run two previous marathons, she was reduced to hobbling through the final 10 miles of this one.

Winning a sprint is a skill Kastor hasn't needed to employ in her previous marathons.

He raised $200,000 in his previous four marathons and said he hoped to raise $100,000 in this one.

She had run only two previous marathons, and none since the Olympic trial in 1984, when she finished fifth.

A half-hour slower than the time of my previous marathon, for which I didn't train as hard.

In previous marathons, Brooklyn-bound lanes on the lower level of the bridge remained open.