You just need to know two names for these races: Mo Farah and Meseret Defar:
1 Mohamed Farah GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. GBR 13:26.98
2 Hagos Gebrhiwet ETHIOPIA ETH 13:27.26
3 Isiah Kiplangat Koech KENYA KEN 13:27.26
4 Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa KENYA KEN 13:27.67
5 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi KENYA KEN 13:29.01
6 Bernard Lagat UNITED STATES USA 13:29.24
7 Muktar Edris ETHIOPIA ETH 13:29.56
8 Galen Rupp UNITED STATES USA 13:29.87
9 Yenew Alamirew ETHIOPIA ETH 13:31.27
10 Ryan Hill UNITED STATES USA 13:32.69
11 Dejene Regassa BAHRAIN BRN 13:34.54
12 Elroy Gelant SOUTH AFRICA RSA 13:43.58
13 Sindre Buraas NORWAY NOR 13:45.67
14 Zane Robertson NEW ZEALAND NZL 13:46.55
15 Brett Robinson AUSTRALIA AUS 14:03.77
1 Meseret Defar ETHIOPIA ETH 14:50.19
2 Mercy Cherono KENYA KEN 14:51.22
3 Almaz Ayana ETHIOPIA ETH 14:51.33
4 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KENYA KEN 15:01.67
5 Buze Diriba ETHIOPIA ETH 15:05.38
6 Molly Huddle UNITED STATES USA 15:05.73
7 Shannon Rowbury UNITED STATES USA 15:06.10 SB
8 Susan Kuijken NETHERLANDS NED 15:14.70
9 Elena Nagovitsyna RUSSIA RUS 15:24.83
10 Dolores Checa SPAIN ESP 15:30.42
11 Tejitu Daba BAHRAIN BRN 15:33.89
12 Kim Conley UNITED STATES USA 15:36.58
13 Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal NORWAY NOR 15:48.87
14 Dominika Nowakowska POLAND POL 15:58.26
15 Jackie Areson AUSTRALIA AUS 16:08.32
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
New Balance Indoor Games
Last week's mileage was nothing (well almost nothing). I spent the week letting my body fight off the nasty cold that everyone else in my family got. I felt run down all week, but somehow escaped without getting hit with it. Last Tuesday my new shoes finally arrived in the mail. I got an extremely comfortable pair of Altra Instincts. I hopped on the treadmill to try them out and only got in 1.3 miles as I was just feeling exhausted. Then I couldn't run from Thursday to Saturday due to another round of trigger-point injections. My left glutes are fine now. They do not seem to tighten up after runs at all.
This week I had 3 shots in my left hamstrings. I had noticed that any stretching (even if very light) I did on the hamstrings on this side was throwing that side off for a day or so. I also asked about my right glute (if the left were so filled with trigger points-why not the right). She found a couple points to inject. It all sounds so mysterious, but you sometime feel these knots immediately release as soon as they are injected. The right glutes were no way as bad as the left side had been, but my right side had become tighter than my left. I finished the week without another run, until I ran the Freeze Your Buns race on Sunday. Despite limited mileage this week, I improved my time from the previous two races finishing in 23:16. I guess the previous week's mileage and weight loss paid off. I never imagined that my recover from hip surgery would take so long after the quick start I got back to running post surgery, but I feel that each week I am slowly making positive changes on various imbalances and biomechanical problems that I am very happy for even a slow recovery. I keep telling myself that it took years to put myself into such bad compensation-filled running patterns, so I should expect a longer time of recovery as muscles and mechanics change for the better!
Saturday night I attended the New Balance Indoor Games in Boston and thoroughly enjoyed all the races. I got to see Jenn Suhr set an American Record in the pole vault (not the first time I have seen her do this in Boston), Maggie Vessey win a photo finish 800m, the Ethiopian greats Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar destroy their competition while avoiding racing each other, an interesting mens mile where Mo Farah got tripped and went down in the first lap and still recovered for 4th place, and other interesting races. Here are a few videos I took with my cheap video camera from my front row position in the cheap seats.
Jenn Suhr one leap before setting the American Record!
Tirunesh Dibaba almost about to lap the entire field in the 2 mile.
Meseret Defar destroying the field in the 3000 meters.
Last lap of the mens mile
.
This week I had 3 shots in my left hamstrings. I had noticed that any stretching (even if very light) I did on the hamstrings on this side was throwing that side off for a day or so. I also asked about my right glute (if the left were so filled with trigger points-why not the right). She found a couple points to inject. It all sounds so mysterious, but you sometime feel these knots immediately release as soon as they are injected. The right glutes were no way as bad as the left side had been, but my right side had become tighter than my left. I finished the week without another run, until I ran the Freeze Your Buns race on Sunday. Despite limited mileage this week, I improved my time from the previous two races finishing in 23:16. I guess the previous week's mileage and weight loss paid off. I never imagined that my recover from hip surgery would take so long after the quick start I got back to running post surgery, but I feel that each week I am slowly making positive changes on various imbalances and biomechanical problems that I am very happy for even a slow recovery. I keep telling myself that it took years to put myself into such bad compensation-filled running patterns, so I should expect a longer time of recovery as muscles and mechanics change for the better!
Saturday night I attended the New Balance Indoor Games in Boston and thoroughly enjoyed all the races. I got to see Jenn Suhr set an American Record in the pole vault (not the first time I have seen her do this in Boston), Maggie Vessey win a photo finish 800m, the Ethiopian greats Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar destroy their competition while avoiding racing each other, an interesting mens mile where Mo Farah got tripped and went down in the first lap and still recovered for 4th place, and other interesting races. Here are a few videos I took with my cheap video camera from my front row position in the cheap seats.
Jenn Suhr one leap before setting the American Record!
Tirunesh Dibaba almost about to lap the entire field in the 2 mile.
Meseret Defar destroying the field in the 3000 meters.
Last lap of the mens mile
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