Adrienne made it to the track last night at the Occidental Distance Carnival running the 5000 meters. She ran 17:37.56 taking ninth place. Miriam Kipng’eno won the race running 16:59.24. This was Adrienne’s first track race after running some strong races on the roads.

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Barbara had a solid performance in the first round of the 3000 meters at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar on March 12th. She ran 9:01.52 for fifth in the first round. She was .11 seconds out of fourth place. The first four out of each heat plus the next four fastest times  advance to the final, but unfortunately, the second heat was much faster. With the 2008 World Indoor champion in the 3000, Meseret Defar, in second heat, that was bound to happen. Defar was the eventual winner of the final race running 8:51.17.

Barbara was the fastest British women in the race which prompted a visit from Olympian, world record holder and fellow countryman, Sebastian Coe. It was the highlight of the meet for Barbara! For complete results, click here.

On Thursday, March 4th at 10:07 pm, California and national track and field and cross country lost an invaluable friend of the sport. Doug Speck, the DyeStatCal.com co-editor, Southern California meet announcer and USATF involved, passed away after a two year bout with melanoma cancer. Doug worked with Kirsten, the GM of DyeStat, for the past four years and was a close friend. Doug has touched the lives of many young and now retired or current elite athletes in one way or another while he reported on them. He was reporting on Tania, Sylvia and Kirsten while they were in high school and even before that which shows how long he’s been involved in track and field and cross country. Southern California USATF association wrote up a great article on Doug here. Here is the story on Doug on DyeStatCal as well information on Doug’s recent award he received from the NSSF.

We will miss you greatly in so many ways, my friend.

Cambria was the lone Jane who went to downtown Los Angeles to run the Firecracker 5k and 10k this past Sunday. She came in third place in the 5k and first in the 10k which was run immediately following the finish of the 5k. Vivian Wadeck finished in first in the 5k running 17:13.8. Cambria was right behind the second place girl, Liliana Hernandez, who ran 18:06.3. Cambria ran 18:11.0 over the hilly course. Cambria ran 39:50.0 in the 10k.

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Tania, Adrienne, Kirsten, Jenna and Sissel competed at yesterday’s Brea 8k. Tania kicked some rear finishing second behind Natalie Higley. Adrienne (8th woman), Kirsten (9th woman), Jenna (29th woman) and then Sissel followed in that order.The Brea 8k was part of the USATF Southern California race series so the race was a competitive one over a hilly course. Tania shown here with Natalie Higley with their awards. Interestingly enough, the woman’s masters division was the most difficult age group of the whole race with four masters in the top ten women finishers.

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