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RECORD-SETTER, CHAMPIONS AND DEBUTANTES HEADLINE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - (August 23, 2002) - A former American record-holder in the marathon, two recent U.S. Marathon Champions, veterans of the U.S. marathoning scene and some intriguing marathon debutantes headline the men's and women's USA Marathon Championship fields at the 2002 Twin Cities Marathon set for Sunday, September 29. Twin Cities Marathon will host USA Championships for Open male and female and Masters male and female runners - only the second event in history to do so. Former American Record-holder David Morris of Albuquerque,
New Mexico headlines the U.S. Open Men's field with his 2:09:32 personal
best set in Chicago in 1999 which set the American Record at the time.
He'll face stiff competition from 2000 Olympic Marathon Trials runner-up
and 2002 USA Half-Marathon Champion Peter DeLaCerda of Alamosa, Colo.
Also entered are intriguing first-time marathoners, Brad Hauser of Palo
Alto, Calif. and Dan Browne of Portland, Ore. Hauser, a Stanford graduate,
was a 2000 Olympian at 5000 meters. Browne, who ran a personal best of
27:47 for 10,000 meters on the track this spring, is an eight-time U.S.
Champion across road, track and cross country disciplines. Team USA Minnesota's
Chris Lundstrom, third in the 2001 USA Marathon Championship, will also
contend for a top place. The Twin Cities Marathon is part of the 2002 USA Running Circuit - a USA Track & Field road running series featuring national championships from 5K to the marathon, and Circuit points will be doubled at TCM. Per USARC race, the first ten U.S. runners earn points (15 for first, 12 for second, 10 for third, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1). The 2002 USARC offers over $340,000 in championship prize money plus a $25,000 grand prix purse ($6000, $4000 and $2500) for the top three men and women point scorers overall. The race will announce its international and masters fields in early September. Complete information on the elite fields at Twin Cities Marathon will be available in the weeks immediately before the race. Prize money will be awarded 10 deep in the men's and
women's open divisions ($43,500 each for men and women) and 5 deep in
the masters ($10,500 each for men and women), with additional masters
age group awards. The complete prize purse structure is available at www.twincitiesmarathon.org. Contact:
Sherlynn Everly, (810) 235-1730/(810)-235-3396 / Leanne Barkus, (810) 235-3396 SIMON RONO WINS THE CRIM 10 MILE FLINT, Mich. - (August 24, 2002) - Kenyans Simon Rono and Catherine Ndereba won the 26th Crim 10 Mile Road Race. Ndereba captured her fifth straight Crim crown and her sixth Crim victory overall ('96/'98-02). Rono and Ndereba each won a $5000 share of the Crim's $42,750 purse. At the 8:00 a.m. start, the weather was cloudy with a temperature of 68 degrees and near 100% humidity. Rono, 30, won his first Crim with a time of 47:13. He pulled away from the lead group of runners at the six-mile mark and by the seven-mile mark had a nine second lead. The two-time Bolder Boulder 10K winner (1996 and 1998) maintained his lead through the last half mile and turned onto the red bricks in downtown Flint finishing ahead of fellow Kenyans Benjamin Kosgei (47:21) and William Kiptum (47:29). Rono, who had been training in Kenya after recovering from an injury said, "This is my first race this year. It was a very nice race. I knew I was in good shape." A group of 25 runners began to move ahead of the pack at the two-mile mark. By the three-mile mark the lead group was down to 15 runners who carried the pace through the four-mile mark. Entering the Bradley Street hills near the five-mile mark, Rono and Gabriel Muchiri (fourth place 47:32) lead a group of twelve runners. By the six-mile mark Rono pulled away from the lead group and went on to win. Ndereba, 30, finished strongly to post her personal best Crim time of 52:09 (second best time in Crim history behind Cathy O'Brien's American record 51:47 from 1989). Recent 8K and 10K world road record setter Asmae Leghzaoui of Morocco (second, 52:21) led the race through the eight mile mark before Ndereba - the world record holder in the marathon (2:18:47) - asserted herself. Kenyan Agnes Ngunjiri (55:41) finished third. Ndereba said, "It was a wonderful race. She had a 100 meter lead, but I maintained my pace and told my body to go how it feels. I caught her at the eight-mile mark." Among the Masters runners, Andrew Masai, 42, of Kenya, won his third Crim in a row with a time of 49:33 finishing 14th overall. Americans Eddy Hellebuyck, 41, (51:12, 19th overall) and Phil Bedford, 40, (51:35, 22nd overall) finished second and third. With a time of 58:10, Masters runner Tatyana Pozdnyakova,
47, from Ukraine was the top female Masters runner. Pozdnyakova came in
ninth overall wining her sixth Crim Masters. Cindy Keeler, 44, from Clermont,
Florida finished second (1:03:07), 18th overall. Laurie Decker, 42, finished
third (1:06:43). Top Michigan female runners were Betsy Frens, 27, Grand Rapids, with a time of 59:18, 10th overall. Mari Chandler, 26, East Tawas, came in second with a time of 59:33, placing 11th overall and Tere Stouffer Drenth, 36, of Charlevoix (1:01:07) finished third, 12th overall. Krige Schabort, 38, of Cedartown, Georgia won his second Crim in row finishing with a time of (39:05) to win the wheelchair event. Tony Iniguez of Aurora, Illinois came in second (39:28) and Brad Whitacre of Lacrosse, Wisconsin finished third (45:16). Bert Burns of Alpharetta, Georgia, was the top quad finisher with a time of 1:09:33. Tricia Downing of Dexter, Colorado won the female wheeler race with a time of 1:04:49. The premier 10 mile race drew 6,275 entrants (second highest amount in Crim history). The family of races, which also includes a 8K run and walk, a 5K run and walk, a one-mile run and walk, the Lois Craig Invitational for Special Olympics and the Teddy Bear Trot; drew 13, 580 participants. This year over 3,500 volunteers came together to make this event a success. 26th Crim 10 Mile Road Race MEN MASTERS MEN (40+) WOMEN MASTERS WOMEN (40+) Complete results will be posted on the Crim's website at http://www.crim.org after 8:00 p.m., EST, Saturday, August 24, 2002.
Ultra Newcomers - Redding and
Fagan - Prevail at USA 50K Trail Championships SAUSALITO, Calif. - (August 24, 2002) - After 26 miles of running, three men were still right together, just as they were for most of the race. It would have been a thrilling marathon finish on Saturday, but it wasn't a standard, 26.2-mile marathon. The race was the Golden Gate Headlands/USA 50K Trail Championships, a 31.1-mile ultramarathon, so they still had five miles to go. Jeremy Redding, 30, of Stanley, Idaho, took off at that point and opened a small gap on the narrow, fog-shrouded trails of Marin County, Calif. He held on to win in a course-record 3:50:46, ahead of former trail companions Dave Mackey, 32, (3:53:43) of Boulder, Colo., and rookie ultramarathoner Bryan Dayton, 29, (3:59:52) of Asheville, N.C. Claiming the women's title was local favorite Mary Fagan of Mill Valley, Calif., in 4:30:59. "I was looking back a lot to see what kind of lead I had," Redding said after finishing at Rodeo Beach, a few miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. "It wasn't easy to tell because of the fog." Mackey drew within sight of Redding on the final, dramatic climb on a trail overlooking the Pacific surf, but couldn't catch up. It probably didn't help that he took a wrong turn and hit his head on a tree limb early in the race, although he refused to use those mishaps as an excuse. "I wouldn't have caught him anyway," he shrugged. It was only the second ultramarathon for Redding, who finished second in March behind Carl Anderson at another 50K race in northern California. (Coincidentally, it was Anderson's course record that Redding beat here, by nine minutes.) "I've never even run a marathon," he noted, although he confessed to notching some quick track times when he competed for Idaho State University. The salmon hatchery worker gets by on 60 weekly miles of running, a paltry figure by ultramarathon standards, although it's all at elevations of 6,500 to 9,000 feet. Fagan, 26, ran uncontested for the last 26 miles to win in 4:30:59. Placing well back in second and third, respectively, were Kristin Moehl (4:44:33), a 24-year-old outdoor products company employee from Seattle, and Luanne Park (4:59:37), a 42-year-old art teacher from Redding, Calif., who has finished 50 ultramarathons. "My hamstrings are a little tight, but everything else is fine," said Fagan, a local high school biology teacher. "It really helped to run sections of the course all summer, because I only live a few miles away, and to have my running club teammates cheering for me on the trail." Fagan explained that Marin County's famous trails are the reason she and her twin sister, also a marathoner, moved there from Connecticut three years ago. "We'd seen pictures of these trails and decided that's where we want to live," she said. She has now run four ultramarathons since her first one last summer, including three wins. The race was held in thick, swirling fog in temperatures that never topped 60 degrees. It is run up and down the Coast Range ridges that connect Rodeo, Tennessee Valley, Muir and Stinson Beaches on the western slope of Mt. Tamalpais. Challenging the 217 runners were seven major climbs that each rise at least 1,000 vertical feet, along with stairs, stretches of beach sand and even a ladder climb-all on fire roads and trails patrolled by deer, coyotes, bobcats and cougars. Golden Gate Headlands 50K: USA Men's, Women's and Masters
Trail Championship MEN MASTERS MEN (40+) WOMEN MASTERS WOMEN (40+) For more race information and results, go to: http://www.headlands50k.org
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