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After starting on the track, the athletes would go out and do a loop on the roads, come back for a lap on the track... |
...do another road loop, and then finish on the track. |
Ann Marie Brooks-Schwabe leads Amy Begley and Briana Shook. |
R-L: Dana Coons, Veena Reddy, Sara Wells, Andrea Haver, and KC Meehan. |
Team Nebraska's Susanne Weeder Einspahr (right) and Ann Gaffigan start out together. |
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Heather Webster of the Syracuse Chargers leads #44 Noel Whitall of New Jersey. |
By the second mile, Deena Kastor was already out in front well ahead of the field. |
She said that she was going for the win first, and if a record happened to fall in the process, she would be pleased. |
Behind Kastor, there was a pack of four, however. R-L: Carrie Tollefson, Katie McGregor, Amy Rudolph, and Jen Rhines. |
Tollefson and McGregor are Team USA Minnesota teammates, and Rhines and Rudolph have been competing against each other since high school. |
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Tollefson had a breakthrough in the summer of 2004 when she won the 1,500 at the U.S. Olympic Trials and then ran a PR to qualify for the Olympic team. |
Laura O'Neill runs in sixth place. |
O'Neill is a 2003 graduate of Yale. |
Christin Wurth-Thomas (a 2003 Arkansas graduate) and Sylvia Mosqueda trail O'Neill. |
Sylvia Mosqueda leads Jenny Crain. |
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Jenny Crain finished 15th at the ING New York City Marathon 2004... |
...and was the top U.S. finisher. |
Amy Mortimer leads Nicole Aish. |
Mortimer, Aish, and Amy Yoder Begley. |
Collette Liss, 31, of Indiana runs in approximately 13th place. |
