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The Olympic year is in full swing with the marathon trials complete and the indoor track season up and rocking. Several BATC athletes are stepping onto the oval for the first time with their spikes on ready to race. Some of our athletes are diving head first into some elite national and international competition. Shannon Rowbury, 2009 World Champion Bronze Medalist, and Garret Heath are headed to Boston for the New Balance Games. Both athletes are taking on the fields set in the 3000m with Heath battling the likes of Matt Centrowitz, 2011 Worl...

by Jake Schmitt HOUSTON, TX -- BATC athletes Magdalena Boulet, Clara Peterson, and Chris Chavez will be toeing the line on Saturday with 1000s of miles logged in their legs ready to successfully tackle the 26.2 mile distance.  With Coach Magda leading the charge of her two athletes Clara and Chris, the BATC distance runners look to gain a lot out of this experience.  Each athlete has different goals in mind, but all share the idea of wanting to run the best race possible on that day.   Magda left the Olympic trials 4 years ago wi...

By Jake Schmitt This past holiday week proved to be a great opportunity for a few BATC athletes to shake off some cobwebs and test their fitness. The racing week began with Magdalena Boulet taking on the Big Sur Half Marathon as a marathon pace workout. The gun went off in less than ideal conditions and Magda quickly found herself letting race leader Blake Russell go as she wanted to stay within her marathon zone. However, as the miles clicked by and she hit the turn around she found herself loosening up and feeling good. By mile ten she close...

Alysia Montano finished a strong 4th place in the 800m final at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, on Sunday.  Her 1:57.48 performance was a seasonal best.  She finished 2 seconds behind winner, Mariya Savinova, of Russia, who ran 1:55.87. The tone of the race was set early thanks to a blistering half way split of 55 seconds.  Janeth Jepkosgei of Kenya, led the charge, with Montano just behind in 3rd position.  The pack regrouped on the final backstretch, but Montano found herself boxed in the middle of the pack...

Jake Schmitt and Clara Peterson both stamped their tickets to the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials with their fast performances at the Giant Race Half Marathon this weekend.  Schmitt surged away early to win in a time of 1:04:51, while Peterson followed the perfect pace setting of Bay Area Track Club teammate Magdalena Lewy-Boulet to finish second, in 1:14:31. Chris Chavez grabbed 2nd place on the men’s side, with a time of 1:05:28.   Schmitt and Armen Vartanian, who would go on to finish 3rd, pushed the pace early with a 4:48 open...

Shannon Rowbury advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s 1500m at the World Track and Field Championships in Daegu, Korea, on Sunday. Rowbury finished sixth in the tactical opening round heat, in a time of 4:14.43.  The pack started very slowly, covering the first 800 meters in 2:22. The pace stayed pedestrian until the final lap.  When the sprint unfolded, Rowbury was stuck in 7th position, just outside the last automatic qualifying spot. On the final straightaway several runners got tangled up, causing Ethiopia’s Geze...

BATC athletes have been making the most of the past month in Europe, either getting ready for the upcoming World Championships or slashing PRs. The Diamond League meet that took place in Stockholm on July 29th was host to some of the best athletes in the world including a few of our own! Alysia Montano, David Torrence, and in her Diamond League debut, Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, took advantage of the Swedish crowd. Alysia ran her last 800 abroad before returning home to run on familiar tracks and in the California sun. In Stockholm she garnered one...

Magda Lewy-Boulet won the Falmouth Road Race on Sunday, August 14th, in a time of 36:58.  The win came on the heels of a new 5K PR, 15:14.25, for Lewy-Boulet at the Stockholm Diamond League meet on July 29th.  It also marks her 2nd major road race victory this summer, after winning Wharf to Wharf in July.  Lewy-Boulet pulled away from 2nd place finisher Diane Nukuri-Johnson in the final mile.  The two had set a blistering pace that slowly whittled down the field throughout the 7 mile race.  Four time Boston Marathon ch...

Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, Alysia Montano, and David Torrence of the BATC are competing tonight at the DN Galan Stockholm Diamond League Meet! Magda "Chewy Lewy" is competing in the Women's 5000m where World and American Record Attempts will be made! Her first track 5000m since the NCAA Championships in 1997 (where she placed 3rd) and her FIRST European track meet, Magda is looking to take a huge chunk off her PR and test her marathon strength against the track world. Alysia Montano will look to show off her speed as she competes in the Women's 800...

BATC athletes were in action this week around the globe, from Monaco to Santa Cruz.  Magda Lewy-Boulet led the way with a big win at Wharf to Wharf in Santa Cruz, where she raced along side Clara Peterson, Jake Schmitt and Chris Chavez.  In European action, Shannon Rowbury lined up with the finest milers in the world in the 1500 meters in the Monaco Diamond League meet, where she ran a solid 4:06.   Lewy-Boulet used Wharf to Wharf as a local tune up before heading to Europe for her Diamond League debut in the 5k at Stockholm on ...