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Las Vegas Marathon 2010 - Josh Cox won the Las Vegas Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on Sunday and Dorota Gruca took the women's race on her 40th birthday. Cox, of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., completed the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 25 minutes, 5 seconds to earn his first Las Vegas title. Steve Dekorker of Seattle was second in 2:31:19. "The game plan was to get the ball rolling on the back half," Cox said. "I kept the horses in the barn during the first half. I was taking it one mile at a time. I was trying to keep (my pace) under control." Cox took the lead for good with 3.7 miles to go, passing third-place finisher Stalin Barros of Ecuador, who crossed in 2:31:52. "When you make your move, you want to make it definitively — to make it so it hurts the other runner mentality," said Cox, who is training in Arizona to set the 50-kilometer record. Gruca, a native of Poland who has lived in New Mexico for 12 years, finished in 2:44:31 after taking t...