Results from 2010 Drake Relays inDiana Pickler (Manhattan, KS) continued her strong 2010 season by winning the heptathlon with a new meet record 6040 points. Over the 2-day competition, Pickler won 5 of the 7 events contested and distanced herself from her competitors by over 500 points. She won the 100m hurdles (13.63sec), HJ (1.78m), 200m (24.48sec), LJ (6.14m), and 800m (2:16.73). Pickler, who won her third consecutive indoor pentathlon championship in March, will next see action in Gotzis, Australia for the first stop of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge Series. On Tuesday night, Lauren Hagans (Little Rock, AR) finished 2nd in the inaugural Grand Blue Mile crossing the finish line in 4:37. Hagans, running in her first ever road mile, took the pace out with a blistering 65sec first 400m, quickly thinning out the 7 woman field down to 2. She continued to lead the race from that point on until she was passed by the eventual winner with about 500m to go. Hagans will race in the invitational 1500m on Saturday. Nuevo GEL-Kayano 16 Ryan Hall Finishes Fourth At The 114Th Boston Marathon Irvine, CA (April 19, 2010) - Olympic marathoner and ASICS athlete Ryan Hall finished in fourth place with a time of 2:08:41, the fastest time an American has run on the Boston course since 1994, in his second attempt at running the Boston Marathon. Hall finished third (2:09:40) at the 2009 Boston Marathon. In the coldest start in 12 years, the temperature hovered at 50 degrees with lightly scattered clouds and a strong headwind for the 114th Boston Marathon.  Two Americans, Ryan Hall and Meb Keflezighi, had high hopes of placing in the top three and breaking the American record set by Greg Meyer in 1983. While they placed fourth and fifth respectively, it was the first time two Americans have finished in the top five since 2006. The race was won by Kenyan Robert Cheruiyot in a course record time of 2:05:52, 82 seconds faster than the course record set in 2006. Like the previous year, Hall set the pace from the start leading the pack at a moderate pace until the 15k mark. Deribe Merga, last year's winner, made the first move to break up the lead pack and quickly dropped Hall by 14 seconds. Right before mile 11, Hall made his way back to the front of the lead pack and by mile 12 he was back in the race. At mile 13, as he passed Wesley College, Hall put his hand to his ear to signify “I want to hear more screaming!” Cheriyout and Merga made it a two man race at mile 16 as they broke away from the group and Hall dropped back to 7th place before eventually passing fellow American Meb Keflezighi at Mile 24 to finish in fourth place, just two seconds behind the third-place winner, Deribe Merga(2:08:39). Hall will be donating his $25,000 prize earnings to The STEPS Foundation, the non-profit organization he co-founded with his wife with the goal of ending poverty. Yesterday, Hall's wife Sara took second place in the BAA Elite Mile (4:43.7). The conditions were poor and dangerous due to the wet and windy weather. Sara ran a cautious race and was unable to make up ground on the last lap finishing less than a second behind the winner, Morgan Uceny (4:43). Hall, sponsored by ASICS since 2005, currently holds the record for the fastest Olympic Men's Marathon Trial (2:09:02) in 2008 and the second-fastest marathon time ever by an American (2:06.17) with his fifth place finish at the 2008 London Marathon. Hall will run his second World Marathon Majors of 2010, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, on October 10, 2010. ASICS Corporation, with more than 60 years of footwear manufacturing experience, offers a full line of performance-driven athletic shoes and technical active sports apparel and accessories.  For more information, please visit www.asics.com. Tamarindo Beach Marathon