Rachel Off to a Great Start

The local newspaper in Rachel's hometown of Peterborough, Canada wrote an article on her and the Millrose Games. You can view the article here.

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TEAM Millrose Games Champions

On Friday, January 28th, we had 6 members of the TEAM competing at the Millrose Games in New York City in the Madison Square Gardens. We had Rachel returning as the defending champion and this year with Coach Tim not attending the race, there was going to be a new men's champion.

In the women's race there was Rachel, Maria, Katie and Nicolette. All were looking to better their best times even after not doing any mile specific training however all of them were very strong from some good base training and were ready for the challenge. Mexico's Nirvana Zalba shot out of the start line and brought the group through a really fast few laps. Nirvana, Rachel and Maria went through the first 400m's in 1:33. By that point Rachel was in the lead and pushing the pace. Nirvana had fallen back and Maria was trying to hold on. Rachel was too strong and dominated the race finishing in a new meet record of 6:41.32 (6 second improvement on the record). Maria came through 10 seconds later in 2nd place in a new PR by 9 seconds in 6:51. Maria finished as first American therefore she is the US 1 mile Champion. Katie had a strong race after struggling with some achilles problems earlier in the month. She finished in 7:31, one of Katie's top times and she also finished 3rd american, getting the Bronze medal for the US 1 mile championships. Nicolette fought really hard being the youngest girl in the race. She finished in her second best time ever in 7:48 and finished 8th overall.

With Tim missing from the men's race, the heavy favorite went to Trevor with Tyler close behind. The gun went off and Trevor led right from the beginning with Tyler trailing not far behind. The men's race ended up being a little less exciting since the top 3 places stayed in the same position all the way through the race. Trevor ended up finishing first in 6:06 and Tyler finishing second in 6:16, good enough for a 5 second PR.

Next up for the TEAM is the USA Pan American Racewalk Cup Trials in Coconut Creek, Florida on February 13th. We have Maria and Rachel in the women's 20k, Trevor in the men's 20k, Tyler in the boys 10k, Katie, Little Rachel and Nicolette in the girls 10k.

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Coach Tim 2nd Place at the 50km Championships

On January 23rd, Coach Tim and a few other TEAM members raced at the USA 50km Racewalk Championships. They were welcomed to the race course with very strong winds (up to 30mph)and cool temperatures. Tim started off the race with Ben Shorey and Ray Sharp. They all stayed together through 20k and then Ray Sharp dropped off and then there were 2. Ben and Tim stayed together through 30-35k and then Tim started to struggle since Ben put in a surge and Tim couldnt respond. From then on Tim really had a hard time continuing but he knew he had to at least finish, no matter how slow he walked. Tim ended up finishing 2nd in a time of 4:25. He was very disappointed in his finish time but unfortunately, sometimes thats how the 50k goes. Its a tough event!

Other TEAM members that raced were Rachel and Tyler over 20km's and Bruno and Nicolette over 10km's. Rachel and Tyler walked together for the first 14km's and then Tyler took off. Both set new PR's of 1:37:18 and 1:35:35 respectively. Bruno started off with Rachel and Tyler before falling back. He still had a very strong season opener of 50:03. Nicolette walked her second best time ever for 10k finishing in 55:21 for a very strong performance.

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