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| Emily Lapari celebrates defending her title. Photo by Gene Niemi Note on her singlet the upside down proclamation: "Wonder Woman" |
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| McEntee(40) gets a gap on Daniel Herrera(22), who repeated as the runner-up again this year. Photo by Gene Niemi |
didn't panic. He kept his form and held on to finnish first. An Aussie, McEntee recently changed location and his coach. McEntee said that he needed to make some changes because he often felt "burned out," fatigued from travel from his home in Perth, Australia so he'll join his new coach, Frank Gagliano, in the States and his base will be New York.
He's also returning to shorter races as he had been racing at 3K and 5K because his former coaches believed McEntee might do better competing in those distances.
On Monday, Jim Estes, the TC in Motion recruiter, got a call from from two time US Olympic team steeplechaser, Anthony Famiglietti(nicknamed Fam). Fam told Estes that he wanted to run under four minutes in the mile when he turns 40. To do that, said Fam had to drop down in distance, work on his speed. Fam had run a 4:05 in practice demonstrating that breaking four was possible. Fam wanted to join the small group of men who have accomplished that feat.If he's able to do it, Fam says, that would make four have done it, a unique accomplishment dominated by the number four.
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