The theme of this weekend: GET HEALTHY.
It was high highs and low lows this weekend for American distance running. Two of our brightest marathon stars on the men's side toed the line in San Diego for the Rock n'Roll half in California. Meb Keflezighi won the event last year and repeated with a victory on Sunday in 63:11.
Watch more video of 2012 Rock 'n' Roll San Diego Marathon & Half Marathon on flotrack.org
Are you as depressed as the rest of us watching that interview? A one-legged horse? (He does realize that means he is missing 3 limbs, right?)
Kim Smith of New Zealand won the women's half in impressive fashion. We bring this up because her 68-minute finish almost beat Ryan Hall. Yeah.
The Prefontaine Classic was this weekend, too, and it gave the Kenyan running consortium a venue to show off all over Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. We really appreciated that (let the eye-rolling commence...).
Galen Rupp proved to be one of the sole bright spots at the meet, becoming the first American to break 13:00 in the men's 5000m on US soil. His 12:58.9 was good enough for third place, behind training partner Mo Farah of Great Britain who broke the meet record.
In the Bowerman Mile, no American finished higher than ninth--that man was David Torrence, whose PR of 3:52.01 was an impressive showing but not enough to threaten Olympic laureate Asdel Kiprop of Kenya. Kiprop's 3:49.40 is the world's leading time for the mile so far this year and just 6 seconds slower than the world record set by Hicham El-Gerrouj of Morocoo a few years back.
On the ladies' side, Alice Schmidt wowed the pants off the competition in the 1500m. Her 4:05.64 bested a tight group of American women who all finished within 2.2 seconds of one another--Jenny Simpson, Gabrielle Anderson, Shannon Rowbury and Anna Pierce, in that order. Is anyone else getting tingly for this event at the Olympic Trials and our hopes for medals in August?
It was high highs and low lows this weekend for American distance running. Two of our brightest marathon stars on the men's side toed the line in San Diego for the Rock n'Roll half in California. Meb Keflezighi won the event last year and repeated with a victory on Sunday in 63:11.
But it was not all fun and games for Ryan Hall, who revealed he is still having significant trouble getting over a plantar fasciatis injury. He still finished second in just over 65 minutes, but he'll be the first to tell you that won't cut it at the London Olympics in two months.
Are you as depressed as the rest of us watching that interview? A one-legged horse? (He does realize that means he is missing 3 limbs, right?)
Kim Smith of New Zealand won the women's half in impressive fashion. We bring this up because her 68-minute finish almost beat Ryan Hall. Yeah.
The Prefontaine Classic was this weekend, too, and it gave the Kenyan running consortium a venue to show off all over Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. We really appreciated that (let the eye-rolling commence...).
Galen Rupp proved to be one of the sole bright spots at the meet, becoming the first American to break 13:00 in the men's 5000m on US soil. His 12:58.9 was good enough for third place, behind training partner Mo Farah of Great Britain who broke the meet record.
In the Bowerman Mile, no American finished higher than ninth--that man was David Torrence, whose PR of 3:52.01 was an impressive showing but not enough to threaten Olympic laureate Asdel Kiprop of Kenya. Kiprop's 3:49.40 is the world's leading time for the mile so far this year and just 6 seconds slower than the world record set by Hicham El-Gerrouj of Morocoo a few years back.
On the ladies' side, Alice Schmidt wowed the pants off the competition in the 1500m. Her 4:05.64 bested a tight group of American women who all finished within 2.2 seconds of one another--Jenny Simpson, Gabrielle Anderson, Shannon Rowbury and Anna Pierce, in that order. Is anyone else getting tingly for this event at the Olympic Trials and our hopes for medals in August?
Congratulations to all runners who competed in the various NY State Qualifiers this weekend, too. We'll have a full analysis soon, but you won't find the final list of our NYS All-Distance teams until after the state meet. In the meantime, go grab a bagel from Wegmans for us and keep running smart, keep running free!
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