11.   It has become fashionable for many top American runners to enter the Chicago Marathon, with its flat course and inviting appearance fees.

12.   Prizes for top runners and teams will include weekend vacations, commemorative medals and trophies.

13.   Salvador Parra of Mexico was commissioned to set a brisk early pace for the top runners, then drop out somewhere around the halfway point.

14.   She recruits top runners for a number of road races, including the L.A. Marathon.

15.   Shepherd finished third in his Pontiac, the top Grand Prix runner yesterday.

16.   Sunday, Johnson had to take his top runner, Karim Abdul-Jabbar, out of the lineup because he has trouble blocking on blitzes.

17.   That is seen in her rivalries with other top runners.

18.   The problem with Boston and its downhill course is that the top foreign runners go charging off at a crazy pace.

19.   The Rams gave up on Lawrence Phillips last year and are without a top runner.

20.   The solution is usually as simple as in Chicago, where race officials tell wheelchair athletes to keep to the right so the top runners can pass.