The 2009 USA Women’s Marathon Championships were held this morning along the winding streets of Minneapolis, MN. The rolling course began adjacent the Metrodome and wrapped its way through parkways, lakes, rivers and tree-filled boulevards all the way to the state’s capitol in St. Paul. The region already abuzz with baseball fever (Twins still fighting [...]
The 39th Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta provided quite a few party favors on the nations birthday. Four Marathon Performance athletes ran fast on the 6.2 mile course along with 55,000 other runners. James Carney, Boaz Cheboiywo, Sally Meyerhoff, and Kelly Jaske each posted personal road bests along the 10k course which finished at Piedmont [...]
Eugene resident Sally Meyerhoff won the Portland Track Festivals Elite 10k on Friday night. Setting a PR and winning the race in 33:14.14, Sally easily ran under the qualifying mark for this months USA Outdoor Champs at Hayward Field.
Additional athletes in the race included Danielle Domenchelli (2nd, 33:19.43), Allisa McKaig (33:57.09), Amy Yoder-Begley and Arianna [...]
River Bank Run – On Saturday May 9, Sally Meyerhoff took home her first US Championship in the Women’s 25k race in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Meyerhoff paced her way to victory on an alternate course that race organizers were forced to use due to flooding. Ignoring the rain, she finished ahead of 2008 Olympian Magdalena [...]