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The
California International Marathon (CIM)
is a 26-mile, 385-yard road race in
Northern California. The course
follows an historic gold-miners'
round beginning at Folsom Dam and
passing through rural Sacramento and
ends at the California State
Capitol. The race starts at an
elevation of 366 ft. and finishes at
an elevation of 26 ft.
In
1983, marathoner John Mansoor and
entrepreneur Sally Edwards organized
the first CIM to be an Olympic
Marathon Trials qualifier. CIM
served as the United States National
Marathon Championship for men in
1984 and for women in 1984, 1985,
1989, and 1993. The California
International Marathon, the nation’s
fastest-growing marathon for each of
the last three years, has attracted
a record number of entries and
received those entries at a faster
clip. The
Dec. 5 race between Folsom and the
state Capitol drew 8,000 entrants, a
10 percent increase over last year’s
record field, a news release said.
In addition to the standard
marathon, the CIM attracted 4,000
entrants in the Marathon Relay
Challenge and 3,000 children for the
Kaiser Permanente Youth Fitness
Program.
Sacramento is the capital city of
the U.S. state of California and the
county seat of Sacramento County. It
is located at the confluence of the
Sacramento River and the American
River in the northern portion of
California's expansive Central
Valley. With a population of 466,488
at the 2010 census, it is the
sixth-largest city in California.
Sacramento is the core cultural and
economic center of the Sacramento
metropolitan area which includes
seven counties; with an estimated
population of 2,527,123. Its
metropolitan area is the fourth
largest in California after the
Greater Los Angeles Area, San
Francisco Bay Area, and the San
Diego metropolitan area as well as
the 22nd largest in the United
States. A city attaining global
status, Sacramento was cited by Time
magazine as America's most
ethnically and racially integrated
city in 2002.
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