Cambria Wu and Kim Ramirez ran in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Half Marathon this past Saturday in Irvine. Cambria ran a 1:24.43 to finish in third overall woman and Kim ran 1:26.59 for fifth place. Kimberly Kent (1:22.05) of Costa Mesa won a close race over second place Whitney Tawney who ran 1:22.12. Kim was running this race to raise money for Irvine’s Kaiser Permanente as part of her UC Irvine medical class.

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Erika Aklufi went up north to Sacramento to run in the California International Marathon this past weekend. She ran a PR of 2:50.04 as the 44th overall woman. Serkalem Abrha was the first woman in a time of 2:33.40.

Erika felt pretty good starting out in the early cold morning on the point to point course (the course starts at Folsom Dam and finishes in downtown Sacramento) so she felt she went out a little too fast. There was a huge contingency of women who were looking for an Olympic Trials marathon berth with an “A” standard of 2:39.00 or a “B” standard of 2:46.00 that were being paced at the CIM. (27 women qualified for the Trials that are going to be held next month on January 14th in Houston, Texas.) Erika found herself ahead of this pack for most of the race but then at mile 18, that pack caught her as she started to struggle with her pace. She went with this group until the 21st mile and then let them slip away as she found the race getting more and more difficult. For someone who doesn’t train for this specific distance, Erika did an incredible job!

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The Janes finished in second place as a team for the second year in a row in the Southern California USATF Road Racing Grand Prix series. The series is a nine race series that started at the Redondo Beach Super Bowl Sunday 5k and culminated at the Dana Point 10k Turkey Trot. The races ranged from 5k distance to a marathon distance over the series and individuals were scored in their top five races over the course of the season. Individuals did not have to run each and every race. For the second year in a row, Club Ed was the winning team with a team score of 21,592 points. The Janes had 20,961 points and Cal Coast was third with 20,833 points. The Janes are the only team of twelve teams competing in this series that consists soley of women.

Tania Fischer again prevailed this year as the individual winner scoring 4495 points to Alison Atkinson’s second place points of 4312. Cambria Wu finished in fourth place with her great finish in the Dana Point Turkey Trot race where she ran a PR of 36:05.

For more details about the Grand Prix series and to see results, click here.

Cambria Wu and Kim Ramirez were both up for a pre-turkey meal race at different races this year. Cambria ran at the Dana Point Turkey Trot running a 10k in a PR time of 36:05 for 8th place in the always competitive race. Stephanie Rothstein won in  a time of 33:16. This race was the final race of the Southern California USATF Road Running Grand Prix series and locked in 4th place overall for her for the final tally.

Kim ran in the Plymouth RockNRun Turkey Trot in Anaheim winning in a time of 18:13 over the 5k course.

For complete results of the Dana Point race, click here.

For complete results of the Plymouth RockNRun race, click here.

Emily continued her distance prowess by winning the Malibu Half Marathon this past Sunday in a time of 1:25.03 – a 6:30 per mile pace.

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