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Chesterfield runner signed up for the marathon last week and won it on Saturday

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Source: Mechanicsville Local

Langan, a 43-year-old resident of Chesterfield County, won the marathon Saturday with a time of 2:47:20. Oliver Wilson-Cook, 25 and from Boone, North Carolina, won the men's marathon.

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