Lilian Chebii breaks a 25-year-old record at Twin Cities Marathon

Victor Shitsama and Lilian Chebii won the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday, running the course from downtown Minneapolis to the Capitol lawn in St. Paul as temperatures climbed from about 50 degrees at the start to 57 at the finish.

Chebii, 32, ran 2:25:26 to break the women's course record of 2:26:51, which had stood since 2001. She said afterward, "I didn't know I'd break the course record, but I say thank you." The record came with a bonus on top of the $10,000 winner's prize.

Shitsama, 28, grew up in Kenya and ran college track at Oklahoma State before settling in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Sunday's marathon was his first at the distance, and he won it in 2:12:20, finishing about two minutes clear of the field. Two other men also broke 2:13.

Organizers reported more than 30,000 runners across the whole race weekend, a record turnout for the event, which pairs the marathon with a 10-mile race and runs through both Minneapolis and St. Paul.

A 25-year-old record is the kind of number that tells you a course has been raced hard, year after year, by people who never got their name in the paper for it. Someone finally ran it faster. That's most of what a marathon record is: proof that the field kept trying.

Sources: CBS News Minnesota; MPR News.