Lewy-Boulet to Challenge the World's Finest
Bay Area Track Club co-founder Magda Lewy-Boulet will take on many of the world's finest distance runners this Sunday, March 28th, at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. The race will be held in extremely muddy conditions at Myślęcinek Park, in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Lewy-Boulet qualified for the World Championships by way of her 4th place finish at the US Cross Country Championships on February 28th, in Spokane, Washington. More recently, she notched a strong 3rd place finish at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida, which served as the 2010 US 15k National Championship. Even more impressive, she has accomplished all this while keeping her training focused on the Rotterdam Marathon, which will take place on April 11th.
Warm, wet conditions have soaked the course at Myślęcinek Park over the past week. That added to already difficult conditions that turned the Polish National Championships into a slog through ankle deep mud earlier this month. Challenging conditions can only help the chances of the underdog U.S. team, which faces and uphill battle against powerhouses like Kenya and Ethiopia.
More information and race updates can be found at http://www.iaaf.org/wxc10/index.html.
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