Weekly News Update

From Linda Hall….Re Marin 10K on 29 May

The next USATF grand prix series race will be the Marin 10K on Monday May 29. It would really be great if we could get some teams together. I will be driving down from Davis. Please let me know if you will be going. Also let me know if you are interested in carpooling. The shirt from this race is always interesting....probably a singlet/muscle shirt this year. Also there are a couple of good places close to the finish (on a track) for brunch.

I will not be running this one very fast because I am doing the San Diego Rock and Roll marathon the next Sunday. Just doing it to (hopefully) get some complete teams.

Hope to see you at the race.

Cheers,
Linda M. Hall, PhD

Other “Chip Highlights”

Graduating this past weekend from CSUS with a Master’s in Social Work was our own Lindsay Pears-Dickson.

Wow and Congratulations! And in early June she will debut at the ….marathon !

Additional congratulations to Ms. Allyson Thomas for her finish at Silver State 50k this past weekend.

Folsom Run For Nature this past weekend, but results were not to be found at “presstime.”

International News…

Hicham El Gerrouj has announced his retirement. The owner of 8 of the fastest 1500m times ever and now Olympic 1500 and 5000 meter champion will compete no more. The field is now open for another generation of successors, but who will make that claim?

South Africa…Another top South African runner has tested positive for EPO like drug indicators. This is the fourth top SA runner this year to face a career stopping ban. Apparently ALL these athletes have been training in one general “camp” and the drugs appear to have all originated from a single pharmacy….YIKES !!!!

Craig Mottram, Australia, successfully defended his string of 10k victories again in NY state where earlier he also won the “Fifth Avenue Mile.”

BUPA 10k in Manchester England saw 32 men break 30 minutes this past weekend with perhaps the deepest quality field EVER in a road race.

Local Debate:
IF you walk in a marathon are you no longer a “runner” in that event?

Motivationally I would opine that one should TRY to run every step of any race, but I have a news tape coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics and in that marathon...many of the best marathon racers in the world….WALKED some of the course. Anyone wanting to borrow this tape for it’s inspiration….see me. It also has actual color coverage of Billy Mills in his Gold Medal 10k there.