The former Rio Grande star came in just behind first place winner Kevin Eastler, with a time of Cebulski, a former NAIA champion in the decathlon finished 18 th in a field of 20 athletes. The graduate of Taylor accumulated 6, points over the course of the competition. Trials and earned a spot to compete for the gold medal at next months Olympics in Beijing, China. This will mark the second time Clay has qualified for the Olympics.
In , Clay finished second in the decathlon earning a silver medal. Clay is also looking to become the first ever Azusa Pacific athlete to win a gold medal in any event. Olympic Trials, ending her shot at competing in the Olympics. Trials with the eighth-ranked mark in the country. Earlier this month, Hess set the NAIA championship meet record with a toss to successfully defend the title she captured as a sophomore.
Alan Webb finished 5 th and looked like he was struggling a bit. In the second heat went out faster, and won by Gabe Jennings in with a finish line sprint. He easily could have finished in the top 4 and relaxed in the final 50 meters, I wonder if it was a smart use of energy? Lopez Lamong finished second, edging out Leonel Manzano in third.
Stephen Pifer did not make it into the finals. Shannon Rowbury won the first heat with a time of the quickest time of the night. The American Record, held by Mary Slaney is The focus of the crowd was on the second heat. Both high school runners toed the line. Kristin Wurth took the race out and traded leads with Lindsey Gallo the eventual winner.
Hassay tucked into the back of the pack and ran easily for the first three laps, a much better strategy than in the quarter finals. With about meters to go the pace picked up and the field spread out through the top turn. Coming out of the top turn Hassay shifted gears and started picking off runners, moving up towards the leaders. The crowd was definitely supportive, and it got extremely load when she made her move. Picking up a couple of runners in the last 30 meters, Hassay moved into fifth place and a spot in the finals, setting a new American High School Record in in the process.
What a race, the crowd loved it. Don't worry Mom and Dad, I actually asked for it this time :. Posted by run4ohio at PM No comments:.
Is race-walking really an Olympic sport? The Italian restaurant - Bepe and Giannia's Tratolina - we ate at last night was really good. Bob and Ali, it's on 19th street just south of the track They had some really good, authentic Italian. The ice cream place across the street was excellent as well. I wouldn't call the sleep I got last night a good night's rest; it was more like a nap. Kempe and I were hanging out at Villards.
The place was packed last night. Kempe introduced me to this girl who runs for Georgia, Natalie Pittchella, who was really cool to hang out with. We didn't get back until about I was up at to tape, of all things, the women's 20k racewalk. That is an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. Race and walk. I'll give them some credit, but not too much. The few fans that were there were cheering: "Go walkers! Worst part about it, it was really cold this morning. Low 50s with a brisk North wind. Having not been prepared for that kind of cold, I was a popsicle by the end of the race.
After breakfast, some of us made the trip to the Skinner's Butte lookout, located just north of Eugene see pictures. It was a nice, clear day and the view of the city was awesome. The last day of the meet starts soon. I can't wait for the My prediction is 1 Lagat 2 Gabe Jennings 3 Lomong. Look out for Manzano and Ohioian Rob Myers. Although I would like to see Alan Webb make the team, I just don't think it's gonna happen. Off to Hayward! Saturday, July 5, The Penultima Night. It was a pretty mellow day at the track, especially after what happened to Tyson Gay this morning.
The crowd livened up for the final of the men's steeple. Fam, the bearded wonder, won the race pretty convincingly and could be a possible contender for a medal in Beijing. After a cloudy beginning to the day, it's nice and sunny right now. I got in a good miler after the meet was over this afternoon. I went back up to Hendrick's park and ran on some trails up there before finishing up over on Pre's trail. There are so many cool places to run out here that 10 miles goes by pretty quick.
Tonight's title also serves as the word of the day. If you don't know what it means, look it up. If you do know what it means, or once you have looked it up, make it your goal to use it before the end of the weekend! That's my challenge. We are leaving to go eat a nice Italian dinner. Tyson Gay pulls up. I just got back from taping the quarterfinals of the and the unthinkable just happened. Tyson Gay is out. He was about 50 meters into his race when he took the dive.
It was really weird how he fell, almost like he got his spikes caught in the track. They had to cart him off. The Olympics are a big question mark. Not a good start to the morning. I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4 th of July! I also hope you saw better fireworks than we did. As far as fireworks displays go, the ones we saw weren't very good. But I guess it's about the atmosphere and setting more than anything. How many times do you watch fireworks and celebrate the 4 th in the stands of Hayward Field?
There were some pretty awesome races last night. The weather was perfect and the runner's took advantage of it! Abdi impressed in the 10k. Leading most of the way, he gave the lead up to Oregon's Galen Rupp with 3 laps to go, before passing him back with to go and holding off the crowd favorite down the stretch. Abdi then celebrated by running over to the steeple pit and jumping in the water!
That was pretty funny. As for Galen, what a race. The year old phenom is going to own the 10k in four years. Big props to Jorge Torres too, who ran the race of his life to get third. In the women's 5k, Kara Goucher came from behind in the last to win. Goucher , Jen Rhines and Shalane Flanigan pulled away from the rest of the field about mid-way through the race. The three pushed the paced and it looked like Goucher was hurting, but she kept it close enough to give herself the chance to win.
She ran a second last lap. Side note, I was underneath the grandstands watching the women warm-up before the race. Let's just say that it was a good view : High school junior Jordan Hasay , from California, ran a new high school record in the - She also qualified for the finals on Sunday.
As she was taking her picture with the scoreboard, the fans started chanting "Come to Oregon. Probably not, but what an advantage haha! After the fireworks, we ended up going to the Villard Street Pub again.
Abdi and Galen on the men's side. And Jen Rhines , along with Sara Slattery , were the women. They were taking pictures with people left and right. I almost felt bad for them because they didn't get a chance to just relax. Then again, I don't feel too bad for them because there are going to the Olympics.
Good to see that Zambrano is back pitching again for the Cubs. Good win yesterday Big Z! Posted by run4ohio at AM No comments:.
Friday, July 4, Butte to Butte 4th of July 10k. Happy 4th of July everyone! It was an entirely too early start this morning, especially after another late night Mexican run last night. The Burrito Boy passed the standardized test for most Mexican restaurants: Mexican music and the local Mexican people!
Muchos Gracios had neither, which should have been the red flag. I got up at a. Things went pretty well considering my training has been suspect the past 3 weeks or so. I ended up finishing 3rd overall, a couple seconds behind 2nd and quite a ways behind 1st.
The winner was Brett Schoolmeister, who was a national caliber runner at Colorado a few years ago. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the last item mentioned, other than they are already improving the smell of our room!
This race was kind of crazy in a way. It started off with a long climb up this huge hill for the first mile. I went through the mile in The second mile was back down the other side of the hill and I went through the two-mile in - so that was a brisk second mile haha. The rest of the race was pretty flat and I felt pretty comfortable.
Afterwards I cooled down with the winner from Colorado. I also finally talked to Bridget Franek for a bit. She runs for Penn State and is originally from Ohio. I see her all the times at meets, but have never talked to her.
Nice girl. Funny story from last night's walk home from Burrito Boy. We see about 25 cops surrounding this house, which is actually a classroom building on campus, so we decide to park it across the street and take it all in.
The cops suspect that the man inside has broke into the building. The four of us - Brad, Adam, Andrew and I - can see this man just chilling in this room; it looked like he was just watching tv or something.
Then a few minutes go by and this lady who is a custodian came up behind us and identified the man as Dave Grace, a fellow custodian. The great thing is the cops have no clue that this guy is supposed to be in the building.
He finally comes out of the building and the cops yell at him to show them his hands. The cops realize they goofed up big time and we could hear them apologizing to everyone with their walkie talkies. Talk about hilarious! Guess you had to be there : So excited for the distances races tonight!
Men's 10k, Women's 5k and semi heats of the men's and women's We had a very interesting conversation, and knew many of the same people in the city involved with the race. I also met for the first time Sidney Howard. Sidney is a charismatic young man of 69 years and has probably been running since before I was born. He seemed to know everyone and hand numerous stories and reminiscences of meets, races and individual competitors. I Googled Sidney later that day, Yes I finally checked my email, and he is the American record holder for meters ant age 60 and 65 running and respectively.
Having run a few s after I turned 40, let me tell you that is flying. After breakfast I visited the art museum at the university. They had an exhibit on Olympic photography from
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