Team USA Minnesota's Jason Lehmkuhle finished top American in 13th place at the Virgin London Marathon with a time of 2:13:40. He went through the half in 1:05:42.Kenya's Emmanuel Mutai won the race in 2:04:40. Mary Keitany, also of Kenya, won the women's race in 2:19:19.
In Other Action ... Four of Lehmkuhle's Team USA Minnesota teammates posted personal bests at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, California, over the weekend.
In the Women’s Invitational Elite 5000-meter, Megan Hogan ran 15:29.12 for a whopping 40-second PR to finish ninth. Also running in the Elite 5000 was Meghan Armstrong who posted 16:20.02. In the Men’s Olympic Development Elite 5000-meter, Chris Rombough was second in a personal best time of 13:42.05.
As we reported earlier, Jamie Cheever won the Women’s Olympic Development Elite 3000-meter steeplechase event with a time of 10:02.18 and Emily Brown won the Women’s Invitational Elite 10,000-meter Run in 33:16.44, which was her debut time in the distance on the track.
“The reason I wanted to come to Mt. SAC was to run my pace for a time to get to USA Outdoor,” Brown said in Team USA Minnesota media release. “Since April 2009 I’ve had a (asthma-related) breathing problem and I’ve been to a lot of doctors. Now I am just training through it and the last couple of months I’ve been getting my fitness back. My competitors run in the 31’s for the 10,000 so there is still a lot of work to do but I like the distance.”
Cheever, Brown and Hogan achieved “A” qualifying times in their events for the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which will be held June 23-26 in Eugene, Oregon.
Next up for Hogan, Armstrong and Rombough will be the Cardinal Invitational at Stanford on May 1. Brown plans to compete in the Lilac Bloomsday Run in Spokane that day, with Cheever still determining her next track event.
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