Run for the Turkeys

Six Team USA Minnesota athletes – Heather Kampf, Jamie Cheever, McKenzie Melander, Ladia Albertson-Junkans, Andrew Carlson and Chris Rombough - will participate in the Life Time Fitness Turkey Day 5K in downtown Minneapolis on Thanksgiving morning.

 

Kampf is the 2012 USA 1-Mile Road champion and a seventh place finisher in the 800 meters at the Olympic Track & Field Trials.  Cheever also competed at last summer’s Olympic Trials and was in the steeplechase finals; she was sixth at the 2012 USA Cross Country Championships last February.

 

Melander and Albertson-Junkans joined Team USA Minnesota this fall.  Melander graduated last spring from the University of Iowa and was the Big Ten Champion in the 5000 meters.  Albertson-Junkans is a 2009 graduate of the University of Minnesota and most recently was eighth at the USA 10-Mile Championships in October.

 

Carlson, a two-time national champion in the 15K and 25K, was the sixth place finisher at the 2012 US Men’s Olympic Marathon Trials with a debut time of 2:11:24.  Rombough was fourth at the 2012 USA Cross Country Championships last February.

 

The Turkey Day 5K starts at 8 AM near the Target Center and finishes on First Avenue.  The event is a fun run so no official results will be kept. 

 

Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5K

Meghan Peyton and Jon Peterson will be part of a competitive invitational field at the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5K in downtown San Jose, CA, on Thanksgiving Day.  The elite women run at 10:00 AM followed by the elite men at 10:30.

 

Peyton has run 15:41 in the 5000 meters and was fourth at the 2010 USA 5K Championships and fifth at the 2011 USA 5K Championships.  Most recently she finished ninth at the USA 10-Mile Championships.

 

Peterson, who joined Team USA Minnesota in August, has a best of 13:41 in the 5000 meters.  In his professional road debut in October, he placed 12th at the USA 10-Mile Championships.