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Join Karla Bruning on Sunday, Nov. 6 as she blogs live from the 2011 ING New York City Marathon, bringing you a behind the scenes look at the world’s biggest marathon.
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Karla Bruning is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, RunnersWorld.com, Active.com, The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, The Gazette in Montreal and two dozen other publications. Her work has also received mentions from The New York Times, Runner's World, Fox Sports, The Baltimore Sun, PBS, New York Road Runners and Brooks Running among others. She has appeared on "America's Morning Radio," "Good Morning San Diego," and "The Marathon Show." She also covered the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver for The Washington Times.
As a former Newsweek reporter, Karla contributed to cover stories for the International Edition and sat in as head of research and Periscope editor. She won a Fulbright scholarship for American journalists and reporting grants from the Scripps Howard, Carnegie and Knight Foundations. Karla holds degrees from Amherst College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
When not pounding the pavement as a reporter, Karla is often pounding the pavement as a runner. She is the editor for RunningTrax and has completed four marathons, trains with the New York Harriers and is a member of New York Road Runners. Find Karla on RunKarlaRun.com, Twitter@KBruning and Facebook.
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