Running USA wire 62-08-13

Issue 62-08-13 August 4, 2013




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Kogo and Chepkirui Claim Titles at 16th TD Beach to Beacon 10K
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (August 3, 2013) - Kenyans
Micah Kogo (right) and Joyce Chepkirui claimed titles in near-perfect running conditions Saturday for a sweet 16th edition of the TD Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.



Kogo, who ran 28 minutes, three seconds, an Olympic bronze medalist, won the TD Beach to Beacon for the second time in three years by pushing the pace near Mile 4 and then dueling runner-up Silas Kipruto (28:08) to the finish. Joyce Chepkirui (31:23), perhaps spurred by frustration about getting left off the Kenyan team for the IAAF World Championships, grabbed the lead from the opening horn and never let go, besting a deep field that for the first time ever saw each of the top 10 women run sub-33:00.



In the Maine resident races, 24-year-old Erica Jesseman of Scarborough (34:17.6) came within .6 of breaking the course record in winning her first title after three consecutive top-three finishes, while Riley Masters, 23, of Veazie (30:19), a former All-American runner at the University of Maine and Oklahoma now running professionally, used his track speed to best a talented field.


Course records were also set in the Masters category by Olympic bronze medalist Deena Kastor (32:28), 40, the American record holder in the marathon and half-marathon who finished seventh in the open women's race. Her time is the fastest 10K ever recorded in the Masters category by an American woman.

Deena Kastor (Agoura HS, Agoura Hills 1991; Arkansas 1996)

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Masters Titles to Be Contested at .US National Road Racing Championships


INDIANAPOLIS - Masters athletes age 40 and over will compete on the same stage as the nation's top "open" and professional athletes at the inaugural .US National Road Racing Championships on Nov. 17, 2013, in Alexandria, Va.


For the first time, a single race will serve as both a
USA Track & Field open national championship and a USATF masters championship.



The .US National Road Racing Championships is a 12-kilometer (12K) event providing a season-capping finale to the USA Running Circuit (USARC), a series of national-championship races that annually provides nearly $1 million in prize money to American runners. Elite athletes must place in the top-ten at a USARC race to be eligible to compete at the .US National Road Racing Championships. The .US National Road Racing Championships feature $100,000 in prize money, with $20,000 going to the men's and women's national champions.


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Defending Champion Biwott Returns to New Balance Falmouth Road Race, American Talent Includes Solinsky



FALMOUTH, Mass. - On Sunday, August 11, 2013, runners from around the world will gather to participate in the
41st New Balance Falmouth Road Race at the "Tommy Leonard Start Line" in front of The Captain Kidd in Woods Hole, Mass. This year for the first-time ever, there will be an elite women's start at 9:50am followed by the elite men and open field at 10:00am.



2012 champion Stanley Biwott will return to defend his title. A red hot Lineth Chepkurui, who placed first at the Utica Boilermaker in July, returns to compete against 2012 top American Stephanie Rothstein Bruce and past Falmouth champion, Wude Ayalew


Making their Falmouth debut in the women's field are
Julia Lucas, who did not finish due to injury in 2012,
Gemma Steel, Katie Matthews and Delilah DiCrescenzo.


Chris Solinsky, 28, from Portland, Ore., returns to Falmouth, only one of two Americans who has run under 27 minutes for 10,000 meters and under 13 minutes for 5000. Other standouts in the men's field include Micah Kogo, 27, from Kenya, the 2007 Falmouth champion and 2011 runner-up who placed second at the 2013 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:10.27.


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USA Masters 1 Mile Road Championships Returns with Top Americans


PITTSBURGH, Pa. -Olympic marathoner
Magdalena Lewy Boulet will celebrate her 40th birthday by debuting in her first Masters national championship at the
USA Masters 1 Mile Road Championship. Along with her, several American and World 40-and-older record holders will compete for a Masters Championship prize purse of $8800 at the
GNC Live Well Liberty Mile
on Friday evening, Aug. 9 in Pittsburgh.

Magdalena Lewy-Boulet (Lakewood HS 1993; California 1997)


Lewy Boulet, who turns 40 a day before the race, and competitor Sonja Friend-Uhl, 42, of Brentwood, Tenn., have their eyes on breaking the American women's Masters road mile record of 4 minutes, 47 seconds set at last year's event by Friend-Uhl , who is also the U.S. Masters 1500 record holder. She is already a 2013 three-time USA Masters champion, winning the 1500 meter, 800 meter and 4x400 meter relay titles.



One of the most competitive age groups in the Championship will be the W60-64. Masters superstars Sabra Harvey, 64, from Houston, Texas, and Kathy Martin, 61, from Northport, N.Y., headline this deep age group. Adding to the competition is Barbara Broad, 62, from Pepper Pike, Ohio, who recently broke the W60-64 age group record in the 800 meter at the National Senior Games with a time of 2:44.3.



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Keflezighi, Hall, Goucher to Race 2013 ING New York City Marathon

Mebrahtom Keflezighi (San Diego HS 1994; UCLA 1998)
Ryan Hall (Big Bear HS, Big Bear City 2001; Stanford 2005)

NEW YORK - Three of the nation's most accomplished and admired long-distance runners - Meb Keflezighi,
Ryan Hall, and Kara Goucher - will run the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 3, it was announced by New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg.



The talented trio will lead a group of highly competitive U.S. athletes who are the first official entrants into this year's professional athlete field. Keflezighi, Hall, and Goucher are among the total of six Olympic athletes confirmed thus far, along with 2012 U.S. Olympians
Julie Culley (5000 meters),
Amy Hastings (10,000 meters), and
Janet Bawcom (10,000 meters).


Additional top American men announced for the race include two-time fourth-place Boston Marathon finisher Jason Hartmann, last year's eighth-ranked U.S. marathoner Ryan Vail, and 2013 World Championships team member Jeffrey Eggleston. Other top American women include 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials 10,000-meter fifth-place finisher Alisha Williams, 2013 USA Half-Marathon Champion Adriana Nelson, and Mattie Suver, the top American finisher at the 2013 Oakley New York Mini 10K.



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