Coming Events

• Bayou City Classic 10K, Houston, TX, March 6 http://www.bayoucityclassic.org
• City of Los Angeles Marathon, CA, March 7 http://www.lamarathon.com
• Gate River Run 15K, Jacksonville, FL, March 13
  *USA Men's and Women's Championship; USARC Event http://www.1stplacesports.com
• IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Brussels, Belgium, March 20-21 http://www.iaaf.org
• NYRR 8000, New York, NY, March 27 *USA Men's Championship http://www.nyrrc.org
• Carlsbad 5000, Carlsbad, CA, March 28 http://www.eliteracing.com
• U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon, St. Louis, MO, April 3
  31st USA Women's Marathon Championship
  http://www.usatf.org/events/2004/OlympicTrials.asp http://www.stlouismarathon.com
  
  

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Meet Me in St. Louis! 1984 U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials Reunion

Kare Cossaboon Holm, a 1984 & 1988 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier, is organizing a 20th Reunion for the 267 pioneering women who qualified for the inaugural U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials hosted by Olympia, Washington on May 12, 1984.

The 1984 Olympic Trials qualifiers are invited to attend the 20th Reunion in St. Louis, Missouri, April 2-4 and enjoy the upcoming U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon on Saturday, April 3.

20th Reunion plans include:
* Arrive Friday, April 2 and attend the Spirit of St. Louis Marathon Health & Fitness Expo
* Informal dinner at an area restaurant (TBD)
* Saturday, April 3 (7:00am), watch the 2004 U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials and attend the awards festivities. The special criterium 2004 Trials course will begin at Washington University and follow a course with 3.5 loops over the roads of Forest Park. Race finishes at the base of the World's Fair Pavilion.
* Consider entering the 5K run/walk on Saturday, April 3 (11:00am) or the half or full marathon, Sunday, April 4, 2004
* Enjoy St. Louis before returning home.

Thanks to the St. Louis Marathon/U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon Committee, USATF, Running USA, Runner's World, Running Times and Moving Comfort for spreading the word. All 1984 Women's Running Pioneers are encouraged to gather in St. Louis for the 20th Anniversary of the first U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials. Come and watch America's Finest Women's Distance Runners at the 2004 Trials in St. Louis.

If you have any information about the 1984 Trials qualifiers or questions about the Reunion, contact Kare Cossaboon Holm at: (610) 520-3490 [evening/weekend]; (610) 239-7900 x461 [daytime] or Marathon20thReun@aol.com

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Team USA Minnesota Sends Six Athletes to USA Indoor Championships

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - (Feb. 25, 2004) - Six Team USA Minnesota athletes - Carrie Tollefson, Katie McGregor, Kristen Nicolini, Jenelle Deatherage, Luke Watson and Lyle Weese - will be among the more than 600 competitors at the 2004 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Boston on Feb. 27-29.

The meet will be held at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College and is USATF's Indoor Golden Spike Tour finale. Portions of the meet will be televised on ESPN2 on Feb. 28 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and on Feb. 29 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. (Central time).

The USA Indoor Track & Field Championships is the world's oldest indoor track championship, with the first meet being held in 1888 in New York. The top two finishers in each event will be selected for the U.S. team that will compete at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships March 5-7 in Budapest, Hungary.

Deatherage will compete in the 1500 meter, McGregor will run the 3000 meter, while Tollefson and Nicolini will do both the 1500 and 3000 meter events. Deatherage has a 1500 meter best of 4:12.75. McGregor, who was a member of the U.S. World Indoor Team in 2003, has a 3000 best of 8:59.64. Tollefson's bests at 1500 and 3000 are 4:08.21 and 8:52.67 respectively; and Nicolini's bests at 1500 and 3000 are 4:22.17 and 9:16.90.

Watson and Weese will both run the men's 3000 meter. Watson has a 3000 best of 7:49.56 which he set at the adidas Boston Indoor Meet on Jan. 31, and Weese has a best of 7:54 in the 3000 meter which he set in February 2003.

About Team USA Minnesota
Team USA Minnesota, part of the Team USA Distance Running program, is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It was formed in January 2001 and began selecting athletes in April of that year. The Team USA Minnesota Distance Training Center is a coordinated effort to bring local resources together to improve post-collegiate American distance running and develop future Olympians. The athletes are coached by Dennis Barker, head cross country and track coach at Augsburg College.

The Minnesota training center's major sponsor is Life Time Fitness (www.lifetimefitness.com); silver and bronze sponsors respectively are the Twin Cities Marathon and the Minnesota Distance Running Association. For more information about Team USA Minnesota, visit the web site at www.teamusaminnesota.org.

Contact: Pat Goodwin, (952) 924-1081 pfgoodwin@sprynet.com

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Contact:
Jennifer Mullen, Saucony, Inc., (978) 326-5213; Jennifer.Mullen@saucony.com
Laurence Cohen, Los Angeles Marathon, (310) 474-5116; go2l@pipeline.com

Saucony Spotlights 26 Runners Participating in Los Angeles Marathon

PEABODY, Mass. - (February 26, 2004) - Saucony, the official footwear sponsor of the Los Angeles Marathon has identified 26 Los Angeles area community members running this year's race that will make up a team called "Saucony 26." These marathon runners represent the diverse and rich culture that make up runners in the LA area.

"We wanted to go beyond traditional elite athlete sponsorship this year and help paint the L.A. Marathon in terms of its most vital component: the wide swath of participants hailing from all across the greater Los Angeles area," stated Tom Carleo, vice president of marketing for Saucony. "These 26 runners, each with their own compelling backgrounds and stories, truly represent the diversity of this city, and we hope the 'Saucony 26' will inspire others to accomplish goals in their own lives."

Each individual in the program has a unique story. Here is a sampling of the "Saucony 26."

* 91-year-old Ernie Van Leeuwen, the Marathon's oldest participant, who last year set a U.S. 90-94 age group record with his 6:54:25
* 11-year-old twins Adrina and Alexa Goglanian, who will run with their mother Denise to celebrate her 50th birthday
* John Ball, co-chair of Team Parkinson whose affliction with the disease hasn't kept him from the last eight Marathons
* Donn Cottom, whose Rotary team will start the race last and raise money for the eradication of polio for each person they pass
* Kamal Oudrhiri, a JPL engineer whose mind may be on Mars as his feet run an earthly course
* Brian Gillespie and Maureen Kennedy, who met at Mile Marker 6 at the 1998 Marathon and returned to exchange vows at the same point four years later during the 2002 race

In addition to special "Saucony 26" uniforms, Saucony is providing each runner a cash bonus for every mile they complete. A number of team members will donate their Saucony checks to charitable causes.
* Claudio Eshaya will donate his check to St. Mary's Assyrian Church in Reseda.
* Matt Graziano will donate his check to Para Los Niños in Los Angeles.
* Aimee Wyatt will donate her check to Night Basketball and Books Youth Mentoring Program in Pasadena.

The entire 26 Saucony team members will be honored with a celebratory exhibition placed in the L.A. Convention Center March 4-6 that participants and community members can see as they enter to pick up their race numbers and shop at the Emerald Nuts Quality of Life Expo. Members of Saucony 26 will attend at a special press reception in their honor on Friday, March 5 at 2:00pm at the exhibition.

The official footwear sponsor of the 19th City of Los Angeles Marathon, Saucony, Inc. designs, develops, and markets (i) a broad line of performance-oriented athletic shoes for adults under the Saucony(r) brand name, (ii) athletic apparel under the Hind(r) brand name and (iii) athletic and workplace shoes under the Spot-bilt(r) name.

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New Lakeshore Marathon Website

Check out the new Lakeshore Marathon website. Streamlined, expanded and loaded with interesting information. Visit LakeshoreMarathon.com to access registration for the Lakeshore Marathon, Half Marathon and 5-Mile Power Walk. The 3rd annual Lakeshore Marathon will be held on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2004.

The website is also the primary source for Event Information, Event Photos, Sponsor Information, Official Merchandise, Media Center, Travel and Tourism Information, Friends and Partners, Volunteer Information, Training Information, Marathon Affiliations, Healthy and Natural Living Expo Information, Marathon Results, Event Sanctioning and Certification, Contact Information, really cool links and more.

To see for yourself, visit: http://www.lakeshoremarathon.com

Ryan Lamppa, Running USA Media Services
USATF Road Running Information Center
365 Oak View Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (805) 696-6232, fax (805) 696-6252

http://www.runningusa.org
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