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Micah Ward
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 Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: World Cross Country Championships |
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Once again our women outshine our men. The womens junior team placed 3rd behind Ethiopia and Kenya. Lauren Fleshmann was the top US finisher with a 12th.
For the men, Galen Rupp took 20th in the mens junior race with the team taking 7th.
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Micah Ward
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Looking at more recent results I see that Jorge Torres took 13th in the short course race. Still, the women once again do better than the guys.
Kenny B wins both the 12K and 4K!!!
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Dan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: |
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Seems the men's fortunes will suffer more if the short course is dropped as has been rumored.
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AM_Runner
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Well two factors involved there the women sent a real A team there while the men did not - that being said the women seem to be a bit deeper than the men right now anyway...
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VIPAM
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject: X-Country should become a priority to Elite Athletes |
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| I have never understood why so many of our top athletes overlook X-Country. The training itself can be essential for a sprinboard to a better outdoor season and a means to temporary distraction from the norm of training for outdoors. As a future coach I will insist my athletes 800m and up run cross country regardless of what level the athlete may be current competing. The U.S. is certainly capable of better placings than it has recorded if the top athletes were training and competing for the U.S. team at all the World X-Country Championships. |
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graeme
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| A lot of runners do cross, but they don't want to go to World Champs because it's in March and they should be into the track season by then. |
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VIPAM
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| Thats totally understandable for sprinters and even some 800m runners but good training and cross-country season thru March will benefit 1500m and up runners more than training and tapering for indoors. |
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graeme
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I think there's a middle ground though. Just because you aren't tapering, or hammering out speed workouts doesn't mean you're training for XC. And if you run world champs, you'll just end up tapering for that rather than indoors. This is why some people like to run a distance that is between XC and their track distance for indoors, like doing 8k for cross, then 3k indoors, then 1500 outdoor, rather than throwing in speed at the last minute. |
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