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USOC / NAU Altitude Training Symposium
On September 27 to 29, 2006, the Center for High Altitude Training will once again combine efforts with the United States Olympic Committee's Coaching and Sport Sciences Division to offer a collaborative Altitude Training Symposium.
The 2006 symposium, open to U.S. National Team coaches as well as sport scientists and coaches around the world, will be held in Colorado Springs, Colo., and will focus primarily on the practical application issues associated with using altitude training as a means of performance enhancement.
U.S. Olympic Marathoners Culpepper and De Reuck Join the Professional Field of the Inaugural NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE
Two-time Olympian Alan Culpepper and four-time Olympian Colleen De Reuck will join the sold-out field of 10,000 runners in the inaugural NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE on Sunday, August 27, it was announced today by New York Road Runners. Both marathoners represented the United States in Athens after winning their respective Olympic Marathon Trials in 2004.
The professional field grew even stronger with the announcement that Benita Johnson (Australia), Constantina Tomescu-Dita (Romania), and Abdi Abdirahman (United States) will also participate in the 13.1-mile race through the streets of New York. Marathon world record-holder Paul Tergat and Olympic marathon silver medalist Catherine Ndereba were the first professional athletes to be announced for the race, which offers $60,000 in prize money, including $10,000 each to the male and female champion.
Culpepper, 33, made his half-marathon debut this past February in a special invitation-only race as part of the Freescale Austin Marathon, finishing third with a time of 1:03:11. The 2004 Olympic Trials Champion's other notable performances this year include a fifth-place finish at the Boston Marathon (2:11:02) and a fourth-place showing at the USA 15 km Championships (44:13).
De Reuck holds a half-marathon personal best of 1:08:38 and won the 2003 USA Women's Half-Marathon Championships (1:10:00), her fifth career victory at that distance. Earlier this season, the 42-year-old South Africa native finished second at the USA Cross Country Championships 8 km in New York City's Van Cortlandt Park.
For more information visit www.nyrr.org
Team USA Minnesota news
Minneapolis/St. Paul - Team USA Minnesota's Katie McGregor, who won the Guidant 10 km last year in a record-setting Minnesota time of 32:17, will be joined by six of her teammates at the Guidant Heart of Summer races on Aug. 19. The races, which will be held at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, include a women-only 10 km at 7:30 a.m. and a 10 km co-ed event at 8:15.
McGregor is the 2005 USA Outdoor Champion in the 10,000 meters as well as the 2005 USA Women's 10 km road champion. So far this year she has been a member of the USA World Cross Country team in the 8 km and finished fourth in the 10,000 meters at the USA Outdoor Championships in June.
Joining McGregor in the competitive women-only event at Guidant will be Team USA Minnesota teammates Kristen Nicolini and Jenelle Deatherage. Nicolini ran a personal best of 33:32 at the Peachtree 10k on July 4th and followed that up with a sixth place finish at the Bix 7 Mile on July 29. At the USA Outdoor Nationals, she was 11th in the 5000 meters.
Deatherage, the runner-up at the 2005 USA 5 km Championships was fifth at last year's Guidant 10k in a time of 33:41.
Luke Watson joins coaching staff at Notre Dame
Luke Watson, a member of Team USA Minnesota since January 2004, has accepted a position as an assistant coach at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind. He will be assisting in cross country this fall and coaching the Fighting Irish 800 meter runners and steeplechasers in track. He also plans to continue to train and race.
Watson has both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Notre Dame, where he was an eight-time All American, and six-time Big East Champion in the steeple, 5,000 meters and mile. While in college he was also the 1999 USA Junior National Cross Country Champion, and still holds five Notre Dame school records.
During his professional running career with Team USA Minnesota, he was a three-time member of the U.S. World Cross Country team, represented the U.S. on the Chiba Ekiden team, was second at the 2004 USA Indoor Championships in the 3000, qualified for the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 5,000, and set a personal best this spring in the steeplechase of 8:36.12.
Team USA Minnesota is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and is a member of the USA Distance Project presented by the New York Road Runners, which is a partnership of the Long Distance Running Division of USA Track & Field and major U.S. events and running related corporations. Additional support for the project is provided by the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon and the Chevron Houston Marathon. For more information, visit the web site at www.teamusaminnesota.org.
Long Distance Running Links
America's Running Routes
With over 62,000 routes, America's Running Routes allows runners to search all routes in a particular city or to narrow their search to find routes on a specific type of terrain, from hotels, in parks, from trailheads or from running stores. Business travelers can find routes to run from the hotel where they are staying or from local parks.
Visit www.usatf.org/routes
The USA Distance Project
The USA Distance Project is a financial, marketing and promotional partnership for the long-term development of elite USA distance athletes so that they can compete successfully in both domestic and international competitions, including major championship events. This partnership will build on the recent successes of U.S. distance running while maintaining a collective commitment towards developing athletes through the next Olympiad and beyond. The USA Distance Project is presented by the New York Road Runners and supported by Silver Sponsors, The Chevron Houston Marathon and The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon.
For more information visit www.usatf.org/about/programs/USADistanceProject.
Resources for Event Directors
How to organize an event, race sanctions, course certifications, competition rules, how to submit results, championship bidding information and more.
www.usatf.org/groups/EventDirectors
USATF Calendar
Search for long distance running events including national and association championships and grand prix events.
www.usatf.org/calendars/search.asp.
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