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Carrie Zografos of the B.A.A. |
Janet Westphal of the Farm Team, Inc. |
Lesley Higgins of the New York Athletic Club. |
Becki Wells, a former NCAA champion for the University of Florida. |
Melissa Donais, running for the SISU Project. |
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Katie Courtwright, 40, who finished first in her age group and second overall in the masters race the previous day. |
Nikki Simmons of Run AZ. |
Cynthia Atencio of Run AZ. |
Nicole Stewart of Pendleton, Oregon. |
Right around the 3K mark, Shalane Flanagan continued to lead the race... |
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...and looked like she was increasing her lead slightly. Flanagan had been suffering from an injury... |
...and hadn't done ideal training leading up to this race, but it didn't show here. |
L-R: Lauren Fleshman, Missy Buttry, Blake Russell, and Shayne Culpepper occupy places 2-5. |
Missy Buttry is a senior at Wartburg, an NCAA DIII school, where she has dominated the DIII ranks for years. |
Blake Russell runs in fifth place. |
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Amy Mortimer runs in sixth. Mortimer moved to Boston to attend graduate school in the fall... |
...and is now a volunteer assistant coach at Boston College. |
Kelly Strong runs in seventh place. |
Strong finished 11th in the 8K the previous day. |
With about 600 meters to go, Shalane Flanagan looked like she would be very hard to catch. |
