Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota/Mizuno), Freya Ross (adidas)
Team USA Minnesota
Meghan Peyton, Freya Ross Selected for Edinburgh Cross-Country
Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota/Mizuno)
Michael and Freya Ross at their September wedding
Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota/Mizuno) and Freya Ross (adidas) have been selected to represent their respective countries in next month’s Great Edinburgh Cross Country meet in Scotland. Meghan qualified for Team USA off her 4th-place result at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships earlier this month, capping off a strong autumn in which she was also 5th at the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving Day. She’ll have a boost in Scotland as Team USA Minnesota head coach Dennis Barker has been selected as a Team USA coach.
Freya, the Scottish cross-country champion, will run for Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland after a 2012 season that was highlighted by her sterling 2:28:10 marathon debut in London and top UK finish in the London Olympic Marathon. She will have the home field advantage, with the January 5th race taking place in Holyrood Park, one of her old college training grounds and just a short jog from the site of her wedding this September.It was very easy to control emotions while taking the Xanax Generic drug. She commented in an article in today’s Scotsman newspaper, “I am looking forward to the race and I always enjoy running at Holyrood Park – I think of it as my home ground having trained there often when at university. It always feels right to start the New Year with that event and it is great to be picked again.”
Meghan Peyton Announced as New Member of Mizuno Racing Team
Mizuno USA has announced the addition of three new women athletes to the Mizuno Racing Team, including Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota). Meghan will be in action this weekend at the Gate River 15K, which is doubling as the US 15K Championships. Click here for the announcement by Ron Wayne on the Mizuno USA homepage.
5 Minutes with Meghan Armstrong Peyton
Running Times on-line interview (click here) with Meghan Peyton (Team USA Minnesota).
Mile posts: Meghan Peyton is a ‘wild card’ at marathon trials
The Des Moines Register has a blog post today on University of Iowa grad Meghan Peyton‘s (Team USA Minnesota) upcoming marathon debut at the US Olympic Trials in Houston.
Adriana Nelson Tabbed in Latest Track & Field News with Shot at US Olympic Team
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.
