Nuta Olaru (ASICS)
Nuta Olaru
Team Japan Women Ready to Challenge for Top 3 at Bolder-Boulder 10K
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.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Bolder Boulder 10K
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),
Nuta Olaru Chats with RunColo
The RunColo website posted a nice interview with Nuta Olaru (ASICS) yesterday, chatting with her about her long running career, decision to take US citizenship, and her plans for 2012. Click here.
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Full Weekend of Racing
While Boulder gets buried under another foot of powder this weekend, our athletes will be out competing in five events around the world.
Reigning IAAF marathon world champ Edna Kiplagat (Nike) will compete for the first time since her gold-medal run in Daegu, racing the JCL Montferland Run 15K in the Netherlands.
From the new training group organized by Edna and her husband Gilbert Koech, Jonathan Cheruiyot will take on the hot and humid conditions of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore.
James Mwangi Macharia (NTN), 3rd at the Philadelphia Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon in September, will be looking for a big improvement on his 2:10:06 marathon PB in tomorrow’s Fukuoka International Marathon.
Nuta Olaru (ASICS) will race the California International Marathon in Sacramento tomorrow.
And out in Vegas, Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota) and Kenyon Neuman (Team Alchemy) will run the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Half-Marathon Sunday evening as their last big tests five weeks out from their participation in next month’s U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
Running Times Cover for Adriana Nelson
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.
