Freya Murray and Michael Ross in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Colorado Running News Chats with Kenyon Neuman
Colorado Running News interview with Kenyon Neuman (Nike). On Saturday, Kenyon continued his strong season on Colorado’s roads, taking 2nd in 66:28 just behind Scotland’s Andrew Lemoncello at the Sports Authority Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Half-Marathon at 5300 feet altitude.
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Adriana Nelson Named to Team USA for World Half-Marathon Championships
Adriana in last year's NY Mini 10K (All rights reserved, PhotoRun, Inc.)
Adriana Nelson (ASICS) was officially named this week to her first-ever USA national team, getting the nod to represent America in the October 6th IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships to be held in Kavarna, Bulagria. Adriana has been having a strong year following her shift to the coaching of Brad Hudson, as well as a move to Boulder as her new training base. Top-five finishes in both the US 15K and 20K national championships and an 8th place finish at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Bolder-Boulder 10K, as well as an improvement in her 10,000m to 32:38.95 and a berth in the US Olympic Trials 10,000m, have been the highlights of her year’s successes.
This will be Adriana’s third appearance at an IAAF half-marathon or road race world championship. She twice represented her native Romania, finishing an impressive 10th at the 2005 World Half-Marathon Championships in Edmonton, where she also won a team gold medal; and 29th at the 2006 World Road Race (20K) Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
Adriana is joined on the USATF women’s team by Shalane Flanagan, Maegan Krifchin, Michelle Frey, and Alvina Begay.
31:51.91 PB for Yuriko Kobayashi
Fresh off a month of Boulder training, Toyota’s Yuriko Kobayashi (Toyota/Mizuno) chopped 30-seconds off her 10,000m PB this evening at the All-Japan Corporate Track Championships, taking 2nd overall behind Kenya’s Sally Chepyego (31:33.76) and finishing as top Japanese in the event. It was only the second 10,000m of Yuriko’s career, following her 32:21.03 debut at a Hokuren meeting this summer in Japan. Earlier in her career, Yuriko was the world’s fastest 1500m junior in 2006 (with her 4:07.86 PB) and has been slowly moving up in distance since her graduation from college.
In her first race since the Olympics and also on the heels of a Boulder training camp, Kayoko Fukushi (Wacoal/adidas) finished a half-second back in third in 31:52.54. Kayoko was announced this week as part of the invited field for the November 4th ING New York City Marathon, which has assembled a spectacularly deep field of many of the world’s top women.
Fukushi’s fellow 5000m/10000m Olympian, Mika Yoshikawa of Panasonic, another recent Boulder trainee, took 5th overall in 32:09.10.
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Rock n Roll Denver Marathon/Half-Marathon
Marathon: Mizuho Nasukawa (Universal Entertainment/ASICS)
Half-Marathon: Kenyon Neuman (Nike), Nuta Olaru (ASICS), Moeno Nakamura (Universal Entertainment), Rui Aoyama (Universal Entertainment), Minori Inoue (Universal Entertainment)
Edna Kiplagat 2nd, Rene Kalmer 6th, Freya Murray 9th at Today’s Great North Run, All in PBs!!!
Edna Kiplagat (Nike) bounced back from her Olympic disappointment with a massive PB of 67:41 at this morning’s Great North Run half-marathon, finishing second to Tirunesh Dibaba’s 67:35. Edna crushed her former PB by 1:19 while going on-on-one with Olympic 5/10 champion Dibaba over the final few hundred meters.
Reigning South African Half-Marathon champ Rene Kalmer (Nedbank/adidas) also followed up her Olympic marathon with a PB today, running a very nice 70:13 for 6th place.
And Freya Murray (adidas) made it three-for-three for our trio of Olympic marathoners today, running a PB also, with 72:23 for 9th place, very impressive in the midst of her wedding planning!
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USATF 5K National Championships
Kenyon Neuman (Nike), Meghan Peyton (Mizuno), Matt Tebo (Nike/BTC), Laura Thweatt (Nike/BTC)
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Bupa Great North Run
Rene Kalmer (Nedbank/adidas), Edna Kiplagat (Nike), Freya Murray (adidas)
Tagged Edna Kiplagat, Freya Murray, Rene Kalmer
USATF 20K Championships
Adriana Nelson (ASICS), Meghan Peyton (Mizuno), Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno)
