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The
start of the 3,000m, it's a large field with 17 runners and one
rabbit.
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R-L:
New Balance teammates Sinead Delahunty Evans, Kathy Butler and Blake
Russell.
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Former
NCAA 800m Indoor Champion and UTEP grad Svetlana Badrankova was
the designated pacesetter.
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Katie
McGregor runs in the pack.
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Former
NCAA Indoor Mile Champion and Arkansas graduate Tracy Robertson.
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Tirunesh
Dibaba leads Amy Rudolph and Katie McGregor.
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R-L:
Korene Kinds, Sarah Dupre-Healy, Sarah Dillabaugh, Siri Alfheim
and Rachel Sauder.
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Svetlana
Badrankova continues to lead, Shalane Flanagan, Rudolph, Meseret
Difar and Kathy Butler follow closely.
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Arizona's
Beth Hoge.
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Once
Badrankova dropped out (as scheduled), Kathy Butler took over the
lead.
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The
pace slowed once Badrankova dropped out.
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Ethiopia's
Sentayehu Ejigu runs among the pack.
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Sarah
Dillabaugh won the Canadian university XC Championships last fall.
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Shalane
Flanagan was targeting the 9:00 barrier, once the pace slowed...
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...she
made a move for the lead to attempt to keep things moving.
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Ejigu.
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Canada's
Sarah Dupre-Healy, a Providence College graduate.
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Amy
Rudolph, another PC graduate and a 2000 Olympian.
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Flanagan,
a Marblehead, MA native and UNC junior, had an abundance of crowd
support.
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Flanagan
leads, Meseret Defar follows.
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