FOOT LOCKER CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, December 14, 2002

PHOTOS BY ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS

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PRE-RACE PHOTOS: FRIDAY'S COURSE TOUR

The course, at Morley Field in San Diego's Balboa Park was made up of two figure eights.	The course record is 16:39, set by Melody Fairchild in 1990.	R-L: West Girls Rachel Bryan, Ruth Graham, Amber Harper and Heather Wood.	L-R: Jamie Geissler, Wood, Harper and Graham.	Girls from the West wore blue, the South red, the Northeast green and the Midwest gray.
L-R: Caitlin Chock, Geissler, Wood and Harper.	The 32 runners head off on the course, which was unanimously considered tougher than the Orlando course.	Approaching the 800 meter mark, Sara Powell, the eighth-place finisher in the Northeast leads the way.	Powell would later say that she ran the first 800 meters and the last 800 meters quickly.	Powell's Northeast teammates Caitlin McTague, Nicole Blood and Laura Cummings lead the chase.
R-L: McTague, Blood, Cummings, Zoe Nelson and Rachel Bryan.	Early in the race, the team battle appeared to be between the Northeast and the West.	Also visible in the tightly-bunched pack are Amber Harper, Ari Lambie and Heidi Magill.	The West team runs together.	With Lambie feeling under the weather, Zoe Nelson was considered a strong favorite to win the race.
In 2000 when Sara Bei won this race, she was nearly in last place at the mile mark; history has shown that patience can pay off in this race.	R-L: Megan Kaltenbach, Amber Harper, Caitlin Chock, Michelle Sikes, etc.	R-L: Meghan Owen, Chock, Sikes, Kate Niehaus and Staci Honeyman.	In the first mile, Lauren Blankenship leads Heather Wood, Nikki Bohnsack and Tara Lenn.	R-L: Wood, Bohnsack and Lenn.

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