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Runners
get ready for the start of the 2004 Circle of Friends New York Mini
10K.
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Approximately
4,300 women participated in the race.
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This
year's race featured top American professional runners...
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...as
an Olympic-year tribute. Three of the runners in the field - Colleen
De Reuck...
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...Deena
Kastor, and Jen Rhines - had already secured spots on the U.S. Olympic
Marathon team.
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Many
of the others in the race would compete at the U.S. Olympic Team
Trials - Track & Field...
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...in
July. Above, Claudia Camargo of Argentina and Danbury, CT, one of
the top non-U.S. runners.
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Colleen
De Reuck (left) and Jen Rhines run at the front of the pack in the
first mile.
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The
race went out at a fairly pedestrian 5:27 for the first mile, allowing
all of the top runners to stay near the front.
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Deena
Kastor, the race favorite, had planned to wait until two miles to
make a move, but she got impatient...
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...and
started picking up the pace during the second mile. By the time
the runners...
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...entered
Central Park about 1.5 miles into the race, she had already put
some distance...
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...on
Colleen De Reuck, Jen Rhines, and Kate O'Neill.
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The
remained of the race was a solo run for Kastor, who focused on using...
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...the
course to her advantage. This was Kastor's first race back since
she finished...
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...second
at the U.S. Olympic Trials in April (after entering as the heavy
favorite but fading...
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...in
the final miles). Kastor was not completely alone on the course,
she had many spectators cheering her on...
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...as
she ran through Central Park. After the 5:27, she ran 5:10 for the
second mile, and 4:54 for the third...
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...with
a 5K split of 16:06. Her last three miles were 5:07, 4:55, and 4:54.
Drossin won her first Mini convincingly...
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...in
31:44 - the fastest time ever run by an American on this course,
beating Anne Marie Letko's 31:52 from 1994.
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