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🌱 Venus runner Victor Vargas makes Fort Worth Marathon's top 25
Venus, Texas Patch AM: a 3 min readHi there, Venus! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Venus runner Victor Vargas makes Fort Worth Marathon's top 25
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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📰 News we're reading
• 2026 Fort Worth Marathon Results: Find Several Boston Marathon Qualifiers (world-track.org) — Venus runner Victor Vargas completed Sunday's Fort Worth Marathon in 3:05:09, averaging 7:04 per mile. The 35-year-old appears in the published men's top 25, listed 12th, in a race that recorded 472 men's finishers and a winning time of 2:25:08. 
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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