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It might seem that I spend an inordinate amount of time talking about Adam and Kara Goucher, which I do. But hey, they seem to be in the news more than anyone else and one of them is really pretty (it's not that you're ugly Adam, just not what I would call "pretty").
Two interesting bits of news were revealed about the running couple at NBCOlympics.com yesterday: 1. Kara is racing the 5000 this weekend at the Pre Classic and 2. Adam is reportedly planning to race the 5000 AND the 10,000 at the Olympic trials in a few weeks.
Kara will be given the chance to improve her 14:55 PR in a loaded field that includes Meseret Defar, who made it clear that she is in shape and going for the 5k world record on Sunday.
Adam. Racing the 5k AND 10k at the trials?! Hhmm, curious. Has not raced in God knows how long, and he's gonna double up (triple with prelims) at the trials? AlSal, where are you going with this?
My guess is either NBC put an "and" where and "or" should have been, or they think the competition in the 10k is weaker and he has a better shot at top 3 there, which is true. This will make the result of the 5k just icing on the cake. A wretchedly painful 12.5 laps worth of icing. I like the idea, it's just ironic that a runner known for not competing very much will be taking on that heinous double.
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It came out today that American track's resident cat people, Adam and Kara Goucher, have realized that they want to get Olympic qualifiers. To go after the very difficult but certainly attainable standards, they looked in the most obvious place: a high school meet.
Adam will be going for his 5,000m qualifier (13:21.5) and Kara, a World Championship Bronze freaking medalist, will be going for her 10,000m qualifier (31:45) in two special exhibition races as a part of the "Border Dual" high school meet. Each will be competing in a field of "about a dozen runners" next Saturday night, May 31. No word yet as to who will fill out what I'm sure will be a stellar group of "about a dozen."
It's too bad really that two of America's top distance runners have to stage what are clearly two, one (wo)man time trials away from other professional races, but clearly neither of the Gouchers, Adam or Kara, had a chance to run this fast in any professional track meet.
Luckily, flotrack was able to step into the future (they were able to buy a time machine, somehow. I knew they had money but not, like, 'time-machine' money...somehow) and film the races. A clip of Adam competing at the high school meet is below.
What I don't get is why Galen Rupp had to go and taunt Adam at the end of the clip. I know he just won that Adidas TC 3k so he's ridin' high right now, but, if you ask me, he deserved that 4-square ball to the gut.
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Found via message board (where else...)
Runnerville can rest easy today as the premier American running couple is finally getting some TV face time.
My Fox Utah (click on 'videos' in sidebar) is reporting that not only do us normal people have to pay an extra 25 monkeys per extra piece of luggage at the airport, but so do the Gouchers (Apparently, Adam and Kara didn't try the 'ol "do you know who I am" strategy).
Somehow, My Fox Utah field reporter Andrea Fujii, was able to secure an interview with the famous couple at the baggage claim of Salt Lake Int'l Airport. Disguised as a simple consumer interest piece, Fujii was able to uncover a startling fact about the Gouchers: They're CAT PEOPLE!
I mean, seriously, TWO cats? Kind of overkill if you ask me. That's a lot of cat vomit to clean up, a lot of novelty cat wizard costumes to buy, and a whole lot of oversized bags of Tidy Cats to lugg out of CostCo, Adam. For the sake of American distance running, please be careful!
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