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A Day in Pictures: Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon 2013
Thousands of participants and visitors packed Sonoma Plaza Park for a post-event bash that included wine, food and music.
Runners from across the country and around the world started pounding away at Wine Country's picturesque roadways early Sunday morning.
By late morning, they were putting away some of the area's world class Chardonnays and noshing on some of the area's gourmet cheeses, fruits and other delicacies.
Tesfaye Alemayehu won Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon for a second straight year.
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The 29-year-old native Ethiopian who lives in Antioch crossed the finish line in one hour, four minutes and 10 seconds, topping a leader-board of 2,880 finishers.
Malindi Elmore, a Stanford graduate from Kelowna, British Columbia, led all women and placed eighth overall, clocking a 1:18.50.3.
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John Litzenberg of Glen Ellen (1:16.56.4) placed fifth overall.
After the race, thousands of participants and their friends and family packed Sonoma Plaza Park for a post-event bash that included wine, food and music.
