Congratulations to Tore Axelsson for becoming the European champion of 10 kilometers Road racing today, for masters runners. He won by more than half a minute on a hilly course.

I have several runners racing today, so when I get their results I'll update this thread.

First up was Tore Axelsson, age 55, from Torsby, Sweden. He ran 16:20 in a 5km road race this morning to place 6th (winner was 16:00). The men who placed ahead of him were 20-30 years younger.

Results: http://www.valborgsruset.se/

Kevin Miller just emailed an update to me about his half-marathon race in Kansas City. He set the Missouri record for his age division by running 1:14:20 and he won his age group award, too. He's 51 years old!

So, overall the three Kansas City Smoke running club men I coach (I coach 9 of them), that competed at the USA Track & Field Masters Championships in Landover, Maryland, did well.

Kevin Miller (age 50-54 division): 1st in the 3000m (9:11), 1st place in the 1-mile run (4:39), and a 1st place in the 800m run (2:11).

Ron Kochanowicz (age 40-44 division): 4th in the 3000m (9:30), 5th in the 1-mile run (4:41), and a 8th place in the 800m (2:11).

Randy Wasinger (age 35-39 division): 4th place in the 3000m (9:30), 1st in the 1-mile run (4:31), and 1st in the 800m run (2:02).

I am proud of all three men for doing their best!

Tinman

www.runningprs.com

Ron, whom I coach, ran well, but he was 3 seconds off his PR time. I know he'll be disappointed about that, but hopefully he'll bounce back in the 1-mile run tomorrow.

M40 3000 Meter Run
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    Name                     Age Team                    Finals  Points
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Finals
  1 Castille, Kevin          M41 Unattached             8:28.55
  2 Scott, Jef               M41 Unattached             8:57.46
  3 Rolly, Philippe          M40 Unattached             9:21.28
  4 Kochanowicz, Ron         M41 Kansas City Smoke      9:30.05
  5 Rosenberg, Gary          M42 Garmin Runners         9:46.73
  6 Gould, Bill              M44 Greater Phil           9:57.26
  7 Chasse, Craig            M43 Potomac Vall          10:03.40
  8 Lanier, Kareem           M40 TNT Internat          10:10.99
  9 Clark, Neill             M41 Greater Phil          10:23.25
 10 Carroll, Christopher     M41 Greater Phil          10:32.03
 11 Billings, Dennis         M44 Potomac Vall          10:32.62
 12 Cooper, James            M43 Potomac Vall          10:45.77
 13 Idler, Jose              M42 Potomac Vall          11:22.66
 14 Latsch, Michael          M41 TNT Internat          11:38.41

Good and bad news for Tore Axelsson, who ran in the 3000m event at the European Veterans Athletics Championships in San Sebastian, Spain. He started he kick too late, he said, so he missed a medal by .79 of a second. However, the good news is that he set an age 55 Swedish national record with is 9:30.99 result. Tore injured his hamstring in the autumn, so the whole winter was a challenge to improve his fitness while dealing with the recovery process. He never lost faith in himselfor me, as he worked through the problem. I had to give him a lot of easy distance work, for a few weeks, and strengthening exercises were necessary to overcome the injury issue. It wasn't until 4 weeks ago that he started interval training. Rather than running normal intervals, I had him run them in snow, at a much slower pace. It kept his heart rate up, but the pace was slow enough to not strain his sore hamstring. It wasn't ideal, but it worked well.

    Final A                   
                                  
    Pos    Bib    Order    Name
    Licence    Country    Date of Birth    Result
    1    55070    3    Cesar Perez
       SPAIN    09/05/1957    9:24.89(CR)
    2    55118    12    Jukka Kauppila
       FINLAND    10/08/1957    9:28.62
    3    55073    7    Domingo Jesus Ramon
       SPAIN    10/03/1958    9:30.10
    4    55294    8    Tore Axelsson
       SWEDEN    17/09/1957    9:30.99
    5    55028    1    Sergio Fernandez
       SPAIN    30/07/1955    9:32.21
    6    55223    6    Thomas Payne
       IRELAND    21/12/1957    9:33.98
    7    55283    9    Leonid Tikhonov
       RUSSIA    26/03/1956    9:37.81
    8    55239    10    Pier Mariano Penone
       ITALY    20/10/1954    9:55.69
    9    55303    14    Durali Yildiz
       TURKEY    18/06/1955    9:59.29
    10    55255    13    Krzysztof Borowski
       POLAND    09/04/1954    10:00.31
    11    55137    15    Pierre Faucheur
       FRANCE    01/12/1955    10:16.16
    12    55284    2    Igor Vakin
       RUSSIA    27/07/1954    10:22.45
    13    55275    5    Alexandr Kaplenko
       RUSSIA    25/11/1954    11:39.55
         55041    4    Daniel Gonzalez
       SPAIN    16/02/1954    AB
         55279    11    Vadim Lukanin
       RUSSIA    22/09/1955    AB
    3.000 metres M55 Final (19 March) 13:30

Update on Tinman coached runners: http://www.runningprs.com/news.html

Note to any Tinman coached runners: If you want me to input any race-results for events in which you participated, please shoot me an email. I am happy to input the results today. I've been behind on updating the News section of www.runningprs.com. Sorry about that! Thank you!