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Jenelle
Deatherage and Sarah Schwald get ready for the 1,500m final.
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Mari
Chandler does a stride.
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L-R:
Sarah Hann, Schwald, Jill Snyder, Sonja Friend-Uhl, Regina Jacobs
and Deatherage.
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Regina
Jacobs was running a 1,500/3,000 double here. She had promised a
surprise...
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...in
one of her two races. It became immediately apparent that this was
the race that she was just trying to win.
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Sarahs
Schwald and Hann hang out near the back of the pack.
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Sonja
Friend-Uhl, who was competing in her first major national competition
since 2000, led the first five laps.
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R-L:
Deatherage, Snyder, Chandler, Heather Sagan, Hann, Schwald and Autumn
Fogg.
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Schwald
and Jacobs hang back and it's clear that it's going to be a kicker's
race.
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Friend-Uhl
continues to lead but Jacobs moves up in to second place.
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Former
Georgetown standout Fogg.
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R-L:
Schwald, Hann, Deatherage and Chandler.
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With
three laps to go, Schwald and Jacobs look poised to kick.
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L-R:
Schwald, Jacobs, Snyder and Friend-Uhl.
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Autumn
Fogg finished eighth in 4:25.77.
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With
two laps to go, Deatherage and Sagan have also moved up to the front
of the pack.
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With
one to go, Jacobs, Schwald, Deatherage and Sagan have separated
themselves from the rest of the field.
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Jacobs
kicked hard to win in 4:15.81, Schwald earned the second World Championships
team spot with a 4:17.23 and Deatherage (4:17.56) finished third.
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Sagan
(4:20.49), Friend-Uhl (4:20.70) and Snyder (4:20.90) went 4-5-6.
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Jacobs
announced after the race that she would be going for an American
Record the next day in the 3,000m, and the world record if she felt
good.
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