That is the crux of Olympic Marathon Trials.
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Brian Atkinson of Melbourne Beach, a three-time state champion in track and cross country at Melbourne High School, will compete in Saturday’s Los Angeles Marathon, also home of the U.S. Olympic Trials, and if he is among the first three finishers, he will be bound for Rio de Janeiro this summer.
In December Eggleston told Scott Douglas of online media Competitor.com “the marathon is all about those later stages in the race, where you’ve got to have your head on straight”. That move prompted the USATF to adjust their “B” standard of qualifying for the trials to 2:45. And so it took me a while. The last time Rochester was represented with upfront contenders was in 2004 in Houston, when RIT graduate Kevin Collins finished 12th and Macedon native Todd Meyer (formerly Reeser) stayed with the leaders until Mile 11 and finished 57th.
In that regard, Rupp is not alone. “It’s handling that last 10km and being able to finish the marathon”.
Ventura County has been the training ground for many successful distance runners. At the 2012 Olympic Games he became the first US medalist in the 10,000 since Billy Mills’ triumph at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, finishing second to NOP training partner Mo Farah of Great Britain. He qualified for the Trials by running a 1 hour, 4 minutes, 35 seconds time at the USA Half Marathon Championships in January 2014. Next, she will run her third marathon in less than a year.
True to form, Jeff Eggleston has been hunkered down on rural roads outside Boulder, Colorado, nowhere to be found, days before the biggest race of his life.
He said there could be some movers and shakers over the final 10 kilometers. Salazer’s attention to detail and long-range vision for Rupp is one of the reasons many in the sport are surprised by the decision to take a first crack at the marathon in such a high-profile event in an Olympic year in such adverse conditions. If it was actually unsafe to runners, Geer said, they would of course, reassess. “What happens if something happens?”
The ASICS Aggies teammates are participating in the U.S. Olympic marathon team trials Saturday in Los Angeles. “I went from being disappointed that I didn’t meet my goals to realizing I had made it”.
Kremske rarely has taken the traditional route during his career.
“The biggest question I have for Galen isn’t the marathon/10k double”.
“That’s not Alberto. That’s not Alberto’s main normal mode of operation. I wouldn’t want it any other way”. And with the indoor championships nationally and worldwide being in his backyard, I would have prioritized that. Now I do not know.
Today’s women’s marathon field is expected to be historically fast. Do the indoors, do the (track and field) Trials, do the Olympic Games and then start to transition to just 10k/marathon beginning next year. “But it did not make sense for me. This is not normal Alberto thinking, in my mind”.
“Many people’s goal is to qualify for (the) Boston (Marathon), but this is a level up from that”. The Marblehead runner earned her spot in the field when she ran a personal best 2:21:14 at the 2014 Berlin Marathon. “I just didn’t have the marathon out of my legs yet”.
“We use a map and label the WakTacks® by fire resource [ambulance, fire engine, bicycle medical team] to show where they are on the LA marathon course”.
“I need to trust my instincts out there”, he said.
“After I graduated from IL in 2012, I was completely self-coached”, he said.
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I know. I really am that lame. “It is one that I hope I’ll have again, but nothing is guaranteed”. It’s just unfortunate that our Trials are in February. “They might think I’m stupid, but if you’re going to be dumb, you have to be tough, right?” That’s the 600-pound gorilla in the room that nobody wants to address.
