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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/comment/jurek-kimball-named-ultrarunning-magazines-runners-of-the-year/">Jurek, Kimball Named UltraRunning Magazine’s Runners of the Year</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted January 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM by Adam Jacobs</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Scott Jurek of Seattle and Nikki Kimball of Bozeman, Montana have been voted the 2007 UltraRunning Magazine North American runners of the year. Jurek won Colorado’s Hardrock 100 Mile in July, generally considered the toughest of the 39 100-mile races in North America, and set a new course record of 26:08:34 in the process. In September he raced against Europe’s finest in the 246-km Spartathlon in from Athens to Sparta, Greece, winning the race in 23:12:14. It is the fourth time in the past five years that Jurek has won the award. Kimball won the prestigious Western States 100 Mile in June in 18:12:37, the second fastest women’s time in the race’s 34-year history. She also won the 101.2-mile Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc, Europe’s largest ultramarathon,…<a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/comment/jurek-kimball-named-ultrarunning-magazines-runners-of-the-year/">(<a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/comment/jurek-kimball-named-ultrarunning-magazines-runners-of-the-year/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/comment/jurek-kimball-named-ultrarunning-magazines-runners-of-the-year/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/comment/jurek-kimball-named-ultrarunning-magazines-runners-of-the-year/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/archive/category/news/">news</a>, <a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/archive/category/trail-running/">trail-running</a>, <a href="http://www.trailfit.com/outdoors/archive/category/ultramarathons/">ultramarathons</a><br /><br /> </P>