Nuta Olaru (ASICS)
Nuta Olaru
Heart and Sole Half-Marathon
Kenyon Neuman, Nuta Olaru (ASICS), Lidia Simon (ASICS)
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AJC Peachtree Road Race 10K
Masakazu Fujiwara (Honda Motors), Suehiro Ishikawa (Honda Motors), Adriana Nelson (ASICS), Diane Nukuri Johnson (ASICS), Nuta Olaru (ASICS), Patrick Rizzo (Mizuno), Lidia Simon (ASICS),
Bolder Boulder 10K presented by crocs
Team USA Men: Kenyon Neuman
Team USA Women: Laura Thweatt (Boulder TC)
Team Colorado Women: Nuta Olaru (ASICS)
Citizens’ Race: Lidia Simon (ASICS)
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Nuta Olaru Wins A Close One in Windy Vegas!
Nuta Olaru (ASICS) has just won this evening’s Zappos.com Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, her second win this year on Competitor Group’s Rock ‘n’ Roll circuit. Her 2:51:31 win was just two seconds ahead of runner-up Andrian Neal. The margin of victory was a repeat of her two-second victory in October’s USATF master’s championship. The Competitor Group website shows tonight’s finish as being even closer, 1.27 seconds.
“This was so tough, it was very, very windy. I also had a cramp in my right leg, so I decided to wait and sprint the final 100m. It was a crazy wind…sometimes behind us, sometimes behind, left side, right side. I feel like the last ten miles it was only in our faces, ” commented Nuta after the race. If anything, Nuta’s sprinting must be getting better with age; at the 2005 New Las Vegas Marathon, she was part of a four-women lead pack still together with 400m to go, and ended up 4th in the final sprint.
