Where Your Dreams Become
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Where Your Dreams Become
Reality
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Shalane Flanagan, Colleen De Reuck Address the Media Prior to the 2008 US Cross Country Champs 2 time US XC Champs, Shalane Flanagan and Colleen De Reuck addressed the media via teleconference prior to Saturday's US Cross Country Championships in San Diego. The women's field this year is a bit watered down with Deena Kastor and Kara Goucher skipping cross to focus on their Olympic preparations. Flanagan and de Reuck are at opposite ends of their careers, but they provided a nice contrast to each other on the teleconference. Flanagan set the US running scene on fire in early 2007 with her American record at 3k. In 2008, she's hoping to add a little more strength to her regime so she doesn't fizzle out at the end of the season like in 2007. Trying to focus on strength, Flanagan just got back from Mexico where she went for her first serious stint of altitude training. Former NYC Marathon champ German Silva provider her with support while in Mexico. Flanagan sounded pleased with the results: "I would say I'm a V02 hog." She indicated she will go back to Mexico after US Cross and possibly again in the spring. Meanwhile, De Reuck is 43 and gave birth 7 months ago, but is hoping to make the US Olympic team in the marathon even though she doesn't even consider herself in the running scene, "I'm not really in the running scene anymore... I don't know who is doing what or how everyone is training or racing... Maybe I'll go on the website and look who is entered" she said with a laugh. *USATF Has a Write Up of Some of the Highlights of the Teleconference (It Doesn't Have the Quotes Above) and Below is an MP3 with the First 15 Minutes of the Teleconference. *Click Here to Download the Teleconference as an Mp3 (15:00)
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