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Several hundred meters into the race, Blake Russell (#34) had already jumped out to a lead in the women's race, but her competitors were close behind. |
Nicole Aish of Gunnison, Colorado, runs close behind Russell. |
Ann Alyanak of Bellbrook, Ohio, is the head XC coach at the University of Dayton and a 2001 graduate of Purdue. |
Tara Maguire of the Westchester Track Club and Katonah, New York. |
Deborah Gaebler of the Greater New York Racing Team and Irvington, New York. |
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Shortly after the eight mile mark, Blake Russell held a comfortable lead in the women's race. This section of the course was into a head wind... |
...and many of the runners commented on how their splits slowed significantly during this section of the course. |
Colleen De Reuck, 41, ran in second place just after the eight-mile mark. |
Russell was almost a minute ahead of De Reuck by this point in the race. |
Nicole Aish ran in third place just after the eight mile mark. |
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Aish was approximately 40 seconds behind De Reuck at this point in the race, so she actually made up ground in the last four-plus miles. |
Blake Russell, 30, who lives in Marina, California, trains with Team USA Monterey Bay, and is coached by Bob Sevene... |
...won the race, which served as the USA 20K Championships, in 1:06:43. |
Colleen De Reuck, 41, was checking out the competition as she ran by us (with several blocks left to go). |
De Reuck dominated the masters race - she set a pending world masters 20K record - and finished second overall in 1:08:47. |
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Nicole Aish, 29, finished third in 1:09:08. |
The wind obviously affected the runners as the top three women all ran more than a minute slower... |
...in the second half of the race than they did in the first half. |
Former BYU star Laura Turner, who now lives in Tacoma, Washington, finished fourth in 1:11:11. Her performance qualified her for the World Half-Marathon Championships. |
Sara Wells, 26, of Team USA Minnesota finished fifth in 1:11:24. Wells was planning to run the Twin Cities Marathon in early October... |
