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In reported conditions of rain, lightning, and thunder, Switzerland’s Grand-Prix von Bern 10 Mile had some of the slowest winning times in race history today. The men’s race was won in 48:18, with only five men from the elite international field breaking 50:00. On the women’s side, nobody went under 55:00. Rough day to be out on the roads in Bern. On the women’s side, Yuri Kano (Mizuno) of the Second Wind AC took 3rd in 57:25, with teammate Yumi Hirata (Mizuno), who moved to SWAC this Spring from her former Shiseido club, finished 5th in 58:44. The women’s race was a sprint to the finish as Kenya’s Monica Chepkoech outleaned Hungary’s Aniko Kalovics 55:55.7 to 55:55.8. Yuri and Yumi fly back to Albuquerque tomorrow, and their next race will be the May 30th Bolder Boulder 10K, where they will run on Team Japan with Miki Ohira.

Josh Moen (Mizuno/Team USA Minnesota) finished 2nd in a big PB of 1:16:09 at this morning’s US 25K Men’s Championships in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Team USA Minnesota reported that Josh and defending champ and teammate Andrew Carlson went out with the leaders and were still with a front pack of five runners at mile 7.  At that point, the lead pack was reduced to three, with Moen and Carlson staying in contention until mile 12 when the eventual winner (Fernando Cabada) made a surge and separated himself from the two Team USA Minnesota runners. Cabada went on to win in 1:15:41. “The race went pretty well for me,” said Josh via a Team USA Minnesota e-mail release.  “The first few miles people were relaxed and the pace was sporadic, anywhere from 4:40 to 5 minutes (the opening mile was run in 4:39).  By the seventh mile, three of us worked together to pull away from the other two runners in the lead pack.  At mile eleven in the rolling hills, Andrew put a gap on me, but I caught him and just pushed hard to put a little distance between us. With two miles to go, the monkey jumped on my back and I was worried Andrew was going to catch me.  It wasn’t until the last quarter of a mile that I knew I was in the clear to take second place.  I wanted to win this race but I think I ran pretty smart.  I was in it the whole time.” This is the third straight strong run for Josh in the past month. On April 23rd, he finished as top American (8th overall) in the hot and humid Crescent City Classic 10K in 29:38. Then on May 1st at the Lilac Bloomsday Run (12K), he came top American again (10th overall) with a nice 35:21 run, kicking home in two-minutes flat for the final 800m. Next up, Josh will go after the ever-elusive 300 perfect score at the post-race bowling party to be hosted this evening by Greg Meyer.

A couple of days delayed, but here is an article out of South Africa on Rene’s run on Sunday.

http://www.supersport.com/athletics/running/news/110508/Kalmer_finishes_fifth_in_Prague

Reigning Olympic Marathon Champion Constantina Dita (ASICS) will be the Event Ambassador for this year’s Tata Consultancy Services World 10K Bangalore. The TCS World 10K is one of a series of three major races in India, including also the Mumbai Marathon and Delhi Half-Marathon. This year’s race will take place on June 5th in Bangalore. Pusa will visit Bangalore for five days in June for the race, taking part in such events as a fashion show, opening reception, press conferences, and other race-related activities. Attached is a scanned copy of an article written by Constantina appearing in today’s “Times of India” Bangalore edition, as well as in eight other regional editions of the newspaper. Tata Consulatancy Services has just come on as race sponsor this Spring, and has given an immediate boost to the race budget, with a prize purse of $170,000, including $21,000 each for the men’s and women’s champions. The event is organized by India’s Procam International. Here is a link to the race website:

http://www.tcsworld10k.procamrunning.in/