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As Blake Russell (and Katie McGregor, on Russell's shoulder) continued to set a quick pace, runners began to drop off the back of the pack one by one.
...good photos with our equipment, which was too bad, because it was a fabulous race. Above: Lindsey Scherf, who would be eligible to run in the junior meet (which only had a girls' 5,000 but a boys' 10,000) went with the lead pack early on.	Deena Kastor did not assume her usual position in the front of the pack. Instead, she just tried to hang on to the lead group as long as possible. Due to an injury, most of the preparation she had done for this race was in the form of crosstraining.	As Blake Russell (and Katie McGregor, on Russell's shoulder) continued to set a quick pace, runners began to drop off the back of the pack one by one.	Late in the race, it was down to Katie McGregor, Jen Rhines, and Blake Russell.	Deena Kastor ran right behind the lead trio, but eventually a little gap became a bigger gap, and she wasn't quite able to stay with them.