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L-R: Culpepper, Rudolph, Mortimer, and Sharon Dickie. |
Amy Mortimer took the early pace. |
Mortimer works as an assistant coach at Boston College. |
Amy Rudolph also coaches, she is an assistant cross country and track coach at Bryant University. |
Mortimer continues to set the pace and the others seem content to follow. |
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Shayne Culpepper, Amy Rudolph, and Lauren Fleshman stick close together. |
Mortimer is working toward a master's degree in accounting at Boston College. |
She is coached by another top runner, John Mortimer (no relation). |
Culpepper finished second in the 4K at the USA Cross Country Championships two weeks earlier and she wasn't particularly pleased with her race there. |
Former University of Tennessee star Sharon Dickie. |
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Mortimer continues to set the pace, and the rest of the field continues to let her. |
Rudolph, a 1996 and 2000 U.S. Olympian, just missed making the 2004 Olympic team in the 5,000 and 1,500. |
Lauren Fleshman (following Mortimer) didn't get to compete at the '04 U.S. Olympic Trials, due to an injury. |
The team for the World Indoor Championships is usually selected at this meet, but there is no World Indoor meet in 2005... |
...so it was "just" a national title at stake here. |
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Shayne Culpepper had an excellent run at the World Indoor Championships in 2004 - she earned a bronze medal in the 3,000. |
Sharon Dickie follows Amy Rudolph... |
...and Amy Mortimer continues to lead. |
Culpepper had a dual purpose in her visit to Boston. Her husband, Alan, would run his first Boston Marathon in April and he was taking advantage... |
...of their visit to do some interviews with local media outlets and preview the marathon course. |
