Detroit, MI - Only one week to race day!  Please plan on joining us at the Detroit Free
Press/Flagstar Bank Int'l Marathon Health and Fitness Expo. We will be in
the Ontario Room of the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center Hotel once
again this year. The dates are Friday, October 13, from 2 PM to 8 PM, and
from Saturday, October 14, from
9 AM to 7 PM.  Note the earlier opening time on Saturday... a change from
what we originally published on our applications.  Admission is absolutely
free, and its open to your friends, family and the general public.

We'll have 43 exhibitors occupying 62 booths offering loads of discounts,
services and free samples. This year, you can make your dinner reservations
right from the Expo... drop by the Detroit or Windsor Convention and
Visitors Bureau booths at the front of the hall to take advantage of this
service.  Also, get that last minute stretch
and relaxing massage from our massage therapists right outside the
entrance.

Plan to attend our Runner's Clinic on Saturday afternoon.  The clinic is
also located in the Ontario Room, and starts at 1 PM.  We're excited about
our speakers, which include-

1:00 PM 	Dr. Jeff Martin          
Professor of Excercise and Sports Psychology
at Wayne State, and former                    
member of the Canadian
National Team

"Pyschology of Distance Running and Racing, or How to
See the Positive in a Negative Split!"

2:00 PM         Sheila Taormina     
Livonia's own 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist in
swimming, and 6th place finisher in the first ever
Women's Triathlon in the 2000 Sydney Games last month

"More than Gold"

3:00 PM Don Kardong  Senior Writer, "Runner's World" magazine.  
Former President of the Road Runners' Club of America and
former Olympic marathoner

"Running Adventures-From the Olympic Games to the Top
of the Empire State Building"

4:00 PM Dave Hillger, A.T.C. Program Coordinator, Providence Hospital and
Medical Centers, Athletic Medicine
"Prehabilitation-  The Art of Healthy Training"

For more information on this year's race,
 visit http://www.detroitmarathon.com.