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Mile posts: Meghan Peyton is a ‘wild card’ at marathon trials

The Des Moines Register has a blog post today on University of Iowa grad Meghan Peyton‘s (Team USA Minnesota) upcoming marathon debut at the US Olympic Trials in Houston.

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Interesting article on Edna Kiplagat’s running career

Edna Kiplagat is one more reason why sports is so great

Edna Kiplagat is one more reason why sports is so great

Nice commentary posted on Edna Kiplagat.

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Virgin London Marathon

Constantina Dita, Louise DamenEdna Kiplagat, Freya Murray

JCL Montferland 15K video

Edna crosses the line at Montferland (Photo courtesy of JCL Montferland 15K, all rights reserved)

The organizers of this month’s JCL Montferland 15K (world champ Edna Kiplagat of Nike in 2nd) have sent us a 4-minute video of race highlights. Click here.

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Nuta Olaru Chats with RunColo

The RunColo website posted a nice interview with Nuta Olaru (ASICS) yesterday, chatting with her about her long running career, decision to take US citizenship, and her plans for 2012. Click here.

Problems of falling asleep did not exist anymore! These Ambien pills helped me a lot!

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Adriana Nelson Tabbed in Latest Track & Field News with Shot at US Olympic Team

 

Adriana in action in this year's NYC Half-Marathon (Photo courtesy of PhotoRun, Inc. All rights reserved)

In the new January 2012 issue of Track and Field News, Adriana Nelson (ASICS) is among the US women pegged by writer Sieg Lindstrom with a good possibility to make the US Olympic Marathon team in the January 14th trials race in Houston. Lindstrom writes: “There’s a fledgling quintet, each with a realistic shot to win: Davila, Flanagan, Goucher, Hastings, Nelson…The 31-year-old Nelson (nee Pirtea) has gained expedited release from her native Romania to represent the U.S. She lost the ’07 Chicago by just 3 seconds in her debut. The UTEP alum has had good big-race finishes since: 3rd Rotterdam ’09, 6th Berlin ’10, 7th Osaka ’11.”
[Adriana also was 10th in London ’08 in her 2:28:52 PB.]
Six athletes represented by Boulder Wave will compete in the US marathon trials. On the women’s side in addition to Adriana, we will have Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota). On the men’s side will be Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno), Justin Young, Josh Moen (Team USA Minnesota/Mizuno), and Kenyon Neuman (Team Alchemy). Meghan and Kenyon will be making their marathon debuts.

 

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Eri Okubo makes cover of Japan’s “Runners magazine”

 

Boulder Wave athlete, Eri Okubo (Second Wave AC/Mizuno) made the January 2012 cover of Japan’s “Runner’s Magazine.”  Eri had the cover shot taken after her 2:28 PB at the Berlin Marathon this autumn.
Okubo makes cover of Japan's runner magazine

Yoshimi Ozaki, Daiichi Life Insurance Team Win Japan’s National Ekiden Championship!

 

Daiichi Life Insurance, coached by 1991 world championships silver medalist Sachiko Yamashita, won yesterday’s All-Japan Women’s Corporate Ekiden Championship, far and away the biggest team event on the Japanese running calendar. With Yoshimi Ozaki (adidas) setting the pace with a 22:17 effort in the opening 7K leg. Daiichi became the first team in 17 years to lead from start to finish and win for the first time since 2002. Yuriko Kobayashi (Mizuno) also had a brilliant run in the second leg for her Toyota club, passing nine athletes in the 3.9K second leg. kayoko Fukushi (adidas) was 3rd in 36:00 in the 10.9K third leg.
In the final team standings, it was a clean sweep of the top three places by teams Boulder Wave assisted this year with altitude training camps in Boulder. Behind Daiichi was Panasonic in 2nd and Sekisui Chemicals in 3rd. Wacoal (6th) and Universal Entertainment (10th) were two more top-ten clubs who hired us for their summer training camps.
Click here for a link to the IAAF article on yesterday’s race, including a photo of Yoshimi Ozaki.

 

Recovering from earthquake and tsunami, Sendai stages Ekiden Championships

European Cross Country Champs: Florea 14th in the junior’s race and Frumuz 15th in the seniors race

Velenje, a city located in northern Slovenia, was the host of the European Cross Country Championships on Sunday. The competition included 6 races, juniors, U23 and Seniors, males and females. The adidas Boulder Wave team had 2 runners selected for this competition, Florea Madalina ran in the junior’s race and Frumuz Cristiana in the senior’s race.

Running in decent weather conditions and a not-too-challenging course Florea Madalina managed to finish 14th out of 93 runners, placing second for Romania after Ioana Doaga’s second place finish and silver medal. Romania finished 4th in the team rankings with Bunea Anca (23) and Panaet Elena (36), behind Germany, Russia and winner, Great Britain. The individual title was won by Great Britain’s Emelia Gorecka.

Cristiana Frumuz ran a great race finishing 15th in the women senior’s race, the second runner to finish for Romania after Barca Roxana’s 7th place. Together with Cristiana Casandra (25) and Bobocel Ancuta (41) Romania finished 5th in the team standings. The individual title went to Irland’s Fionnuala Britton, while the team title went to Great Britain. Full resultsRace VideoRace Photos.

At the end of the competition Cristiana Frumuz happily said, “…I’m extremely satisfied with my performance today, it certainly means something, but on the other hand I feel very sorry for not getting a medal with the team. However, I hope next year we will be on the medal stand.”