Jenn Suhr, photo by PhotoRun.net
Galen Rupp, photo by PhotoRun.net/design by The Shoe Addicts
Ryan Whiting, photo by PhotoRun.net
One of the most intimate meets of the year, the USA Indoor, will give the three thousand fans in Albuquerque, New Mexico a chance to see some of our best athletes battle to make the team to SOPOT, Poland, for the 2014 World Indoor Champs.
SUHR, RUPP AND MANY MORE
ALBUQUERQUE (USA): Reigning world indoor record holder Jenn Suhr, 2012 Olympians Galen Rupp and Manteo Mitchell, and 2013 World Championship finalists and teenagers Mary Cain and Ajee’ Wilson will be among the names highlighting the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships, which begin Friday, February 21, and run through Sunday, February 23, at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Rupp faces off against a stacked field in the men’s 1,500m, including 2014 Wanamaker Mile victor Will Leer, Olympic medalist Leo Manzano, 2008 Olympian Lopez Lomong, 2009 U.S. 3000 m Champion David Torrence, Garrett Heath and Ryan Hill. Two-time defending champion Sharon Day-Munroe will attempt to three-peat in the women’s pentathlon while five-time SEC Champion Gray Horn looks to pick up his first national multi-event title after taking third in the decathlon at the 2012 Olympic Trials. Informs USATF.
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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