A group of Janes look to go and compete in the USATF Club Nationals this next weekend on July 8 and 9 at Randall’s Island’s Icahn Stadium in New York City. Cambria Wu, Sarah Montez, Colleen Joyce and Emily Field look to score a few points for the Janes on the opposite coast. Emily is going to be the work horse of the group running the 10,000 on Friday night and then the 5,000 on Saturday morning as well as run a leg on the distance medley relay on Saturday afternoon. Sarah, Cambria and Colleen are running the 5,000 meters as well as the DMR. The club nationals has been a growing aspect of the club scene since it started a few years ago bringing teams from all the across the country to compete in all track and field events.

Randall’s Island Park is also home to Icahn Stadium, a world-class track & field facility, which is the only one of its kind in North America capable of hosting local, regional and national events.  Icahn Stadium offers a full standard 400-meter Mondo running track flanked by 5,000 covered spectator seats overlooking the East River.  Within the Icahn Stadium complex, there is a premier turf soccer field with bleachers for spectator events.

Last year the championships were held at San Francisco State. Kirsten Leetch and Erika Aklufi were the Janes that went up and competed there in the 5,000 where they scored enough points to give the club a 10th place finish. For that blog, click here.

For more information about the championships, click here.

Tania Fischer looks to end her great track season at the World Masters Athletic Championships held in Sacramento, California on July 6 – 17. Tania will compete in the 5,000 meters on Friday night, July 8th. Unique to this event is that Tania will only race against 45-49 year old women in the 5,000 but should have some great competition in the likes of Sylvia Mosqueda who has come out of retirement to race here and is in her age group. Tania’s race will be at Sacramento City College’s A. G. Spanos Sports Complex.

The Worlds Masters Championships are held every two years. Two  years ago, the championships were held in Lahti, Finland.

For more about this event, click here.

Tania had the great opportunity to run in a race in an exhibition 3000 meter race in the middle of the senior and junior USATF National Championships held at the University of Oregon at the historic Hayward Field this past Sunday. Tania ran in an elite field of masters who came together to show what they had over the 3000 meter distance. Tania, after running 10:02 a few weeks ago at the Portland Track Festival, was looking to break the national 45-49 age group record of 9:57 at this meet. In a fine field of fast women, and after a 5:20 first mile, the pace started to drop. Tania ended up in fourth behind Kris Paaso, Grace Padilla and Aeron Arlin-Genet running a time of 9:59.87 only a 1.5 seconds off of the record time. Kris Paaso, 41, of New Balance Silicon Valley club team kept off a hard pressing Grace Padilla, 40, to take the win in a time of 9:47.84.

For complete results, click here.

For an album of photos from the race, click here.

To see the complete race video, click here.

Tania Fischer and Lisa Valle battle it out in Portland.

Tania was the lone Jane to go up to the annual Portland Track Festival at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon this past weekend. Tania ran in the masters 3000 meter race – a race that brings the top masters runners in the nation together to race this rarely run distance. After leading for most of the race, Tania was passed in the last 50 meters by Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Lisa Valle to come in second in the race in a time of 10:02.37 (to Lisa’s time of 10:00.62). Tania who was going after the 45-49 year old age group American record of 9:57, was alone in the efforts early on when she found that no one else wanted to do the work and get after it. Lisa ran a smart race sitting on Tania throughout and timed her kick against a strong kick of Tania’s. Tania has yet another chance at this record when she runs on June 26th at the USATF National Championships in an exhibition master 3000 meter race against a few more elite masters from across the country.

For complete results, click here.

For a pre-race story, click here.

For a video of the race, click here.

The Janes went to the Jim Bush USATF Southern California and Western Regional Championships this past Saturday and won! It was certainly a team effort. Emily Field did the impossible 800 meter and 5,000 meter double coming in 9th (2:22.12) for the 800 and first (16:46) for the 5,000 bringing in a few points for each. Tania Fischer was 7th in the 1,500 running a time of 4:46. Baby Jane and Jordan High sensation Crystal Lizaola ran a 2:22.07 in the 800 after a long night the night before at the prom.

Baby Jane and Apple Valley High athlete, Hannah Valenzuela ran a 17:36 in the 5,000, Cambria Wu was 5th running a 17:55, Sarah Montez was 6th in a time of 17:56 and Colleen Joyce was 7th running a time of 18:31.

Team scores had the Janes at 40 for the night to Westlake’s Track Club’s 20 points for second and Nike Run LA’s 18 points for a tie for third with Pacific Coast Track Club.

Next up for the team – the Janes will head out to Randall’s Island’s Icahn Stadium for the Club Nationals on July 8th and 9th.

For complete results, click here.

Click here to see race videos.