Adriana Nelson


Three Boulder Wave Athletes on Colorado Teams for Bolder-Boulder 10K

Sunday, May 27, 2012 No Comments by bw_admin

Team Colorado men after absorbing all the info at this morning's Bolder-Boulder technical meeting: (l to r) Kenyon Neuman, Jeremy Freed, Patrick Rizzo

Three Boulder Wave athletes are set to race tomorrow’s Bolder-Boulder 10K International Team Challenge as members of the men’s and women’s Colorado teams. Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno) and Kenyon Neuman (Nike) will be joined by 2011 Bolder Boulder citizens’ champ Jeremy Freed on the men’s Team Colorado. Last Sunday, Patrick set a course record at the Colfax Half-Marathon and last month he was the pacemaker for the men’s 2:11 group at the Virgin London Marathon, and says he and his teammates are ready to move Team Colorado up a place from last year’s 3rd place team finish behind Team USA. Kenyon is focusing on his track running this Spring, and will go after the 13:33.00 US National Championships “A” qualifying standard at the Portland Track Festival on June 9th.

Adriana Nelson racing at the 2011 Philadelphia Rock 'n' Roll Half-Marathon (Photo courtesy of PhotoRun, Inc. All rights reserved)

On the women’s side, Adriana Nelson (ASICS) will be joined on the women’s Team Colorado by 2006 Bolder Boulder champion Sara Slattery and Wendy Thomas. As is Kenyon, Adriana is focusing on qualifying for the USA national track championships. At the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational last month, Adriana ran a new 10,000m PB, and just missed the 10,000m automatic “A” qualifying standard of 32:45.00 by three seconds. She will be running the 10,000m at the Portland meet on June 9th.

Patrick, Kenyon, and Adriana are all coached by Brad Hudson.

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Team Japan Women Ready to Challenge for Top 3 at Bolder-Boulder 10K

Saturday, May 26, 2012 No Comments by bw_admin

Team Japan at today's Bolder-Boulder welcome luncheon at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder: (l to r) Eri Okubo, Yuko Watanabe, Kayoko Fukushi

With most attention in the International Team Challenge women’s race at Monday Bolder-Boulder 10K focused on an expected battle among the USA, Ethiopian, and Kenyan teams, the Japanese women are looking to put themsleves in the mix and make it to the Top 3 podium. Kayoko Fukushi (Wacoal/adidas) heads up the team, with a stellar resume that includes the Asian record in the half-marathon (67:26), the Japanese record at 5,000m (14:53.22), a 30:51.81 PB for 10,000m, and a 3rd place finish at last year’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon (2:24:38). Kayoko will be doubling at the 5/10 in next months’ Japan national championships/Olympic Trials. Eri Okubo (Second Wind AC/Mizuno) has been rocketing up the charts the past 12 months – at the 2011 Berlin Marathon in September she improved her marathon PB from 2:35:24 to 2:28:49 for 9th place, and then in February jumped another big step with 2:26:08 for 4th place at the Tokyo Marathon. Last weekend Eri was 3rd at the Gifu Seiryu Half-Marathon, a race won by Boulder Wave athlete Rene Kalmer (Nedbank/adidas). The third member on Team Japan is Yuko Watanabe, who finished 11th at last year’s Bolder-Boulder, followed a month later by a 32:27.89 PB.

At Bolder-Boulder, the big prize money is in the Team Challenge. While money extends to the top 10 finishers, including $3,000 for the victory, the team prizes begin at $15,000 for 1st, $10,000 for 2nd, and $7,000 for 3rd.

The International Team Challenge women’s start is at 11:00 a.m. Monday, with the men going off 11 monutes later. The race winds through Boulder’s streets before finishing at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field, where many of the estimated 54,000 runners from the citizens’ race will be on hand for the elite finish and the day’s Memorial Day services.

Eri Okubo and Kayoko Fukushi are represented by Boulder Wave. There other athletes rerpesented by Boulder Wave … Adriana Nelson (ASICS), Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno), Kenyon Neuman… will run for the Colorado teams (article tomorrow). Also Nuta Olaru (ASICS) and Lidia Simon (ASICS) will run in the citizens’ race, which begins at 7:00 a.m.

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Dick’s Sporting Goods Bolder Boulder 10K

Friday, May 25, 2012 No Comments by bw_admin

Kayoko Fukushi (Wacoal/adidas), Adriana Nelson (ASICS), Kenyon Neuman (Nike), Eri Okubo (Second Wind AC/Mizuno), Nuta Olaru (ASICS) Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno), Lidia Simon (ASICS), Laura Thweatt (Nike),

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Adriana Nelson Chats with RunColo.com

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 No Comments by bw_admin

Adriana getting baked with husband Jeremy in Kobe, Japan on her birthday last year.

Adriana Nelson (ASICS) chats about training with new coach Brad Hudson, the rigorous standards of achieving cover model fame, Lucky Charms, and the UTEP Two-Step. Click here.

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Adriana Nelson: Team Clif Bar Profile

Monday, April 9, 2012 No Comments by bw_admin

Team Clif Bar: Adriana Nelson

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Adriana Nelson Tabbed in Latest Track & Field News with Shot at US Olympic Team

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 No Comments by bw_admin

 

Adriana in action in this year's NYC Half-Marathon (Photo courtesy of PhotoRun, Inc. All rights reserved)

In the new January 2012 issue of Track and Field News, Adriana Nelson (ASICS) is among the US women pegged by writer Sieg Lindstrom with a good possibility to make the US Olympic Marathon team in the January 14th trials race in Houston. Lindstrom writes: “There’s a fledgling quintet, each with a realistic shot to win: Davila, Flanagan, Goucher, Hastings, Nelson…The 31-year-old Nelson (nee Pirtea) has gained expedited release from her native Romania to represent the U.S. She lost the ’07 Chicago by just 3 seconds in her debut. The UTEP alum has had good big-race finishes since: 3rd Rotterdam ’09, 6th Berlin ’10, 7th Osaka ’11.”
[Adriana also was 10th in London ’08 in her 2:28:52 PB.]
Six athletes represented by Boulder Wave will compete in the US marathon trials. On the women’s side in addition to Adriana, we will have Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota). On the men’s side will be Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno), Justin Young, Josh Moen (Team USA Minnesota/Mizuno), and Kenyon Neuman (Team Alchemy). Meghan and Kenyon will be making their marathon debuts.

 

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Running Times Cover for Adriana Nelson

Friday, October 14, 2011 No Comments by bw_admin

 

On your newsstands now…Adriana Nelson (ASICS) makes her second Running Times cover! As always, editor Jonathan Beverly and his team have lots of good stuff inside the issue, including a training article feature very glossy, very sponsor-pleasing shots of Adriana, her husband, Jeremy, and Nuta Olaru. The November issue is available at all fine newsstands and bookstores now! Don’t waste a minute, go buy it before it sells out! Seriously, stop reading our website right now, get in your car, and go buy it. Adriana’s previous cover was the November 2008 issue.

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Great Weather and Fast Marks Forecast for Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon

Friday, September 16, 2011 No Comments by bw_admin

A few hours after Great North is wrapping up in the UK, the field will take off at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon, the premier half on Competitor Group’s circuit. We will have five athletes from five countries in the elite field Sunday morning.

Adriana Nelson (ASICS, USA) will be looking to improve on her 69:59 PB, as well as take care of the technical matter of getting her qualifying standard for January’s US Olympic Marathon Trials; because she became a US citizen in April, Adriana’s marks before that date do not count toward her qualification for the standard. Rather than run a full marathon this autumn and risk lingering fatigue in January, Adriana is instead going to qualify at a “B” standard via a sub-75:00 half-marathon mark. After a month of training at Boulder’s 5300 foot altitude since finishing 2nd at Falmouth last month, Diane Johnson (ASICS, Burundi) is in top shape to be competitive on Sunday and also slice a very large chunk off her 74:20 PB, set at Philly last year. Mizuho Nasukawa (Sakura AC/Universal, Japan), the 2009 Tokyo Marathon champion, brings in a 71:58 PB and is testing herself midway through a current training camp in Boulder. Fiona Docherty (ASICS, New Zealand) is over some summer injury woes and prepping for an autumn marathon; in her last half, she knocked about two minutes from her PB with 72:49 at the New York City Half-Marathon in March.

On the men’s side, James Mwangi Macharia (NTN, Kenya) makes a rare race appearance outside Japan, having been with Japan’s NTN corporate team throughout his professional career. James has a 60:34 PB from the 2008 Rotterdam Half-Marathon, and is also the event recordholder for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Virginia Beach Half-Marathon – his 60:42 there in 2005 is still the only time anybody has broken 61 minutes in the sweltering Labor Day weekend race. James’ last half was at Sapporo in July, where he took 4th in 62:52 in another hot summer race.

Temps are forecast to be in the low- to mid-50s for Philadelphia Sunday morning, pretty darn sweet for fast running. Bret Michaels will rock the finishers with a post-race concert immediately following Sunday morning’s awards ceremony.

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