Omitted from the list below was Radcliffe's first competition of the year in a performance about as strong as anything else in 2002.
On Feb 17 at the World's Best 10-K in San Juan on a stinking hot day with high humidity - is there any other kind in Puerto Rico? - Radcliffe ran 30:43 in what was then the second best women's road 10-K in history. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: USATF Release: Jones named Athlete of the Week Post, Marty wrote: > Radcliffe has put up some big numbers going up and down a range of distances > this year. One loss, but in a tremendous time, and, of course, there's still > the Chicago Marathon to come. Joe Henderson has a good article on Paula Radcliffe today at http://www.runnersworld.com/home/0,1300,1-0-0-ZNEWS,00.html#bell, making the case for her setting two "real" world records this year: best non-Chinese mark at 10,000m and best marathon time in a women's only race. I hope Chicago won't be stretching things too far for her, but she was actually pretty conservative in her racing all summer. Except for her 3000m loss to Szabo at Monaco, she avoided the lucrative IAAF track circuit and pointed mainly to the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships. Mar 23 IAAF World X-C Long Race 1st 26:55 Apr 14 London Marathon Marathon 1st 2:18:56 Jul 19 Monaco Herculis 3,000m 2nd 8:22.2 Jul 28 British Commonwealth Games 5,000m 1st 14:31.42 Aug 6 European Championships 10,000m 1st 30:01.09 ER Sept 22 Nike London 10K (road) 10,000m 1st 30:38 Oct 13 Chicago Marathon Marathon ??? ????? bob
