Olympics-Rupp, Cragg win US Olympic marathon trials

Afterwards, as Goucher struggled to come to grips with her near miss, she was not comforted by the fact that she is the Olympic marathon team alternate, and that she still has the Olympic track trials in front of her if she chooses to run them.

The race had a record purse of $600,000, with equal prize money for men and women. The top three finishers earn an Olympic berth. “Hopefully one day I will be in the Olympics”.

“Just five days after I thought I hadn’t made it, I found out that I did”, Baumert said.

“I have no pressure”, she said.

The Boulder, Colorado man checked into his hotel Thursday morning. She was college roommates with Linden at Arizona State.

The favorite looks to be three-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi, who captured a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens and was fourth at the 2012 Olympics in London. But the race determined the three men and three women who will represent the U.S.in the marathon in Rio. The Golden Dragon Parade will begin at Hill and Ord Streets, and wind up at Broadway and Cesar Chavez between 1 and 3 p.m. The course is basically flat and covers four six-mile loops, which makes it spectator friendly, so McCandless will hear the cheers of a contingent of family and friends. Nutrition is important so I make sure I fuel correctly. Or, he might match surges or toss in his own. I’ve always trusted Kim Hanson’s plan.

But she was defiant on the subject of her former coach, Alberto Salazar of the Nike Oregon Project, who is being investigated by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

More than 370 runners competed in the U.S. Olympic team trials marathon in L.A., which held the event for the first time.

In the highlight moment for San Antonio-area runners at the Trials, Perez crossed the finish in 2 hours, 44 minutes and 16 seconds.

He’s continued racing and preparing for the trials.

But Greenwood’s in a place that she never could have imagined occupying when she went straight from middle-distance to marathon, so her goals are simple: Stay healthy, run well and enjoy the experience.

But the 5-9, 140-pound McCandless believes even better times – literally and figuratively – could be ahead. He said the next Olympic cycle could fall in his prime marathon running years.

“It’s been this Sisyphean task where I get to the top, and then the rock crumbles down”, Linden said Saturday.

The group of fans worked on 15 signs for the 15 athletes who have the closest relationship to the city, such as Arciniaga, the recent champion of the Run Flagstaff Summer Series. “I knew when I went had to go all the way to the finish”.

That was until Greenwood ran it in 2:47:45, less than two minutes away from the Olympic trials qualifying standard. It will be on NBC, broadcast for the first time, which means more people will come to Los Angeles, more people will invest in Los Angeles, so it’s a net economic gain.

And yes, he’s planning to return to Kauai in September to most likely defend his half marathon title.

“As my coach says, ‘that’s classified coach-athletic information.’ But let’s say I’m hoping for a personal best”, Slaby said.