Lea Wallace at the 2011 Big Sky Conference Championships
We at the SRN were sad to see that Sac State standout Lea Wallace didn’t quite make the Olympic team this time around.
It turns out there was a lot going on in Wallace’s life in the time leading up to the finals.
Taylor Dutch at Flotrack informs us that: (more…)
If you are sitting around the house, this would be a great time to be watching some live video from the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational track meet at Stanford.
The fastest heats of the 5000 are starting right now, and the 10,000 meters are scheduled to start now.
Highlight: Deena Kastor is going to be running the 10,000 meters in search of a Olympic Trials qualifying time.
500 channels and no live coverage
This year, for the first time in US history, the Olympic Trials Marathon, for both men and women, will be held at the same time and at the same venue. This is a terrific opportunity to showcase our sport!
Sadly, Unless you’ve got a ticket to Houston, or are unlucky enough to live there, the only television coverage you’ll get to see of the Olympic Trials marathon will be a two-hour, tape delayed version at 3:00 PM Eastern Time on NBC.
Take out the 30 minutes of commercials, and that leaves about 90-minutes to cover a nearly three hour event. Take out the required 20-minutes of athlete interviews and jibber-jabber, and that leaves maybe 70-minutes of actual running.
Talk about a punchy intro! The lead to this nice story about local Olympic Trials Marathon bound runner, Megan Daly, begins thus:
Megan Daly saves lives by day and trains for the olympic trials by night.
Makes her sound a bit like Buckaroo Banzai.
Jaymee Marty last month on her way to winning the Buffalo Stampede.
After years of very publicly training for it, and a couple near misses, Sacramento’s Jaymee Marty knocks out a Olympic Trials qualifier at the Chicago Marathon yesterday.
Under unusually warm conditions, Marty qualified with almost a minute to spare in 2:45:09, improving on her prior personal best of 2:46:26 from last year’s Twin Cities Marathon.
Marty is the third local woman to meet the Olympic B standard of sub-2:46. At 43, Marty also builds on a trend of local masters women superstars–Midori Sperandeo and Mary Coordt–who have already qualified for the 2012 trials. Will any “open women” runners (i.e., women under 40) qualify in this cycle? And what about the guys?
Jaymee Marty writes all about her race experience in her blog. Read it. It’ll bring tears to your eyes.
