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08.06.11: BAKSA, HORTON GO 1-2 IN PIGEON FORGE: Runner's Market duo Andy Baksa and Alan Horton fended off a quartet of Kenyans led by Murfreesboro-based Festus Chemaoi, to go 1-2 in the Pigeon Forge Midnight 8K, leading home 486 runners. Baksa, currently living in Chattanooga where he attends PT shool, and Horton, who resides in Knoxville, ran together for almost the entire race until Baksa pulled away to win in 25:09, edging Horton by two seconds. The first female finishe was Candace Thomas of Huntsville,AL, who clocked 29:55. Nashville's Dave Milner, 40, was the first male master to finish, clocking 29:29, while Karen Heath, 56, of Lawrenceville,GA clocked 39:56 to take the female masters honors. [results]

07.21.11: MOORE DEFEATS WRIGHT IN LUZERN: Knoxville two-lap specialists and training partners, Phoebe Wright and Erica Moore, were in action at the Spitzenleichtathletik Meeting in the Swiss city of Luzern, with both competing in a very competitive women's 800m. In a race won by American Alice Schmidt in 1:59.74, Moore placed 5th in 2:01.15, while Wright (who has a PR of 1:58) struggled, trailing in 8th in 2:01.58. [results (pdf)]

07.19.11: MOSER CLOCKS 2:00.45 800 IN LIGNANO: Knoxville's Treniere Clement ran a season's best over two laps running in a loaded women's 800m in the Meeting Internazionale di Atletica Leggera held in the Italian town of Lignano. In a mostly American race that saw the field come through halfway in 57 seconds, Cornell grad Morgan Uceny, thus far unbeaten in Europe, pulled away from the field with apparent ease in the last 100 meters to win in 1:58.37 and lead four align="right" other American women under 2 minutes. Moser, who resides in Knoxville and is coached by John Cook, placed 8th, clocking 2:00.45, just 0.85 seconds off her PR. [results]

07.17.11: FRIEND-UHL WINS GOLD AT 800 AND 1500 AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS: Several Tennessean distance runners were in action at the World Masters Championships held in Sacramento,CA, joining some 4500 athletes. Brentwood's Sonja Friend-Uhl provided the best Tennessean performances, though, emphatically winning the W40-44 800m and 1500m finals to bring home two gold medals. Friend-Uhl, who ran collegiately at William & Mary and has hardly slowed down since, clocked 2:10.02 to win the 800m final on Monday July 11th by a whopping five-second margin (2:17.26 in the prelims 7/9), and then clocked 4:28.52 to win the 1500m final on Friday July 15th by a similar margin over Grace Padilla.

Two of Tennessee's finest masters roadsters braved the California heat to compete in the marathon. Knoxville's Kathy Wolski ran impressively to win a silver medalin placing 2nd in the W45-49 marathon, clocking 3:03:19. Signal Mountain's Hugh Enicks placed 6th in the M50-54 marathon, clocking an outstanding 2:47:28. [results: track | road]

07.16.11: KOSGEI WINS AGAIN, HINTON FIRST FEMALE AT CRAZY 8s: The race that bills itself as the World's Fastest 8K didn't disappoint this year. The Crazy 8s 8K in Kingsport is home to the men's and women's world records for 8K. This year's race (the 22nd edition) saw 2294 runners race around downtown Kingsport and its candle-lit side roads in an exciting race that saw eight men duck under 23 minutes (4:38 per mile). The race was won, for the second straight year, by New York-based Kenyan, Shadrack Kosgei, who clocked a blazing 22:21 (4:30 pace), six seconds faster than last year, to win by three seconds from countryman Simon Ndirangu and pocker $5000. Hendersonville's Scott Wietecha led the Tennessean men home, placing 17th (and 2nd American) in a time of 25:08.

This year, there was no prize money for the women. The absence of a dozen or so African, Russian, and American elite women left the race wide open for a Tennessean victory, and Nashville's Alexa Hinton(right) rose to the occasion in fine style. Hinton, a former soccer player at NYU who only started running seriously 18 months ago, had an outstanding run to finish first female in a time of 29:26 (5:56 pace), outpacing the opposition by almost a minute. North Carolina’s Marley Burns was runner-up at 30:16 with Kingsport’s Amanda Tate third at 30:25. “I read the description and I saw ‘candlelit streets’ and I was like ‘I’m in!’ said Hinton in a post-race interview with tricitiessports.com. “When I was on that street with the candle lights, I thought, ‘This is heaven.’ At night, in the dark, with the candles…I loved it!”

While Hinton needed no more convincing, running on the same course where both the current men’s and women’s 8k world records were set also had its lure. “I thought about the course and the world records while I was running,” added Hinton. “I knew this was touted as the World’s Fastest 8k and I don’t know how I’m in first place, but if I don’t mess this up, it will be awesome.I will come back every year, it’s an amazing race.” [results]

07.16.11: DIVINNIE CONTINUES WINNING WAYS IN FRANKLIN: Brentwood's Tom Divinnie notched his second overall win in as many weeks at the Across the Spectrum 5K in Franklin, leading home a field of over 400 runners. The former Brentwood High stand-out clocked 16:09 and cruised to a comofortable victory over Jacob Carrigan to pocket $300 in gift certificates for local retailer Sports Seasons. Nashville's Elizabeth Berry was the first female finisher, clocking 19:22, while High Munoy, visiting from Florida, and Franklin's Ladona Lawson claimed the masters' honors, clocking 19:06 and 24:16 respectively. [results]

07.16.11: WRIGHT, MOORE FARE WELL IN TWO-LAPPER IN PADOVA: Knoxville 800m specialists, Phoebe Wright and Erica Moore had fine runs in the women's 800m at the 25th annual Meeting Internazionale Città di Padova in the northeast Italian city of Padova. In a race won by Cuba's Yuneisi Santiusti in 1:58.91, Wright placed 4th in a time of 2:00.20, while training partner Moore clocked 2:01.09 in 6th place. [results]

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