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Shalane, a great effort yesterday. We saw you today again in the park running. You looked fast again, so you must be feeling pretty good.
Shalane Flanagan: Well, I haven't slept yet. So I'm honored to be here with all the champions. Even though I didn't win, I feel like a champion. I conquered a big goal and dream of mine. I've been replaying the race over in my head all night long, hence why I have not slept.
Like Gebre, I ran through the finish line again today and just relived the whole thing. It was a great day, and I had the best time, so, yeah.
Just a reminder, Shalane, you are the champion of the U.S. Women's Marathon title.
SF: Yeah, yeah, I'm the champion of something.
Shalane, you spoke a lot in the (pre-race) press conference about patience and how important an element that was. And it was a slightly slower first half pace than expected. Was it tough to be patient? Did you question at all whether or not somebody like you should maybe push that pace at 13, 15 miles?
SF: My coach would have had a heart attack if I had taken over. No, the game plan was always to just execute our race plan, which was to be patient for as long as possible. Because I knew the event, my coach and I just felt like my best case scenario for doing well in terms of podium spots, that was our goal. There was no time.
So with the slow pace, I could tell it felt slow, but I didn't really even take splits until I looked up at the halfway mark, I didn't know what pace we were running. So, yeah, the time was irrelevant. It was all about beating the women on the specific day.
Running Has Taught Leo Manzano 'to Always Be Positive'
"Life is like a race and you learn a lot during life just like during a race," 2009 Continental Airlines Fifth Ave Mileobserves middle distance star Manzano, who had a brilliant 2010 on the track. "Sometimes when times get tough in life you may feel like giving up and sometimes in a race you are tired and want to slow down. But you have to talk to yourself and stay motivated to push through when it isn’t easy. Of final importance is to have fun with what you are doing." Manzano, who is diminutive, has found "when I talk to kids many of them are already as tall as me. I encourage them by saying something such as, ‘I can do it and so can you, and not just in running but in whatever you want to do in life'…. I had some challenges because other guys are so tall that they look like goliaths." Click on "More" for an in-depth look at Manzano, who, as a child, wanted to be an astronaut. Hey, what would his 1500-meter time be on the moon?
 Miko Tadita · Thu Nov 11, 2010 @ 12:41am · 0 Comments |
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