Suzy Favor Hamilton targeting the Trials at age 39?
Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton told her old hometown paper in Wisconsin that she’s thinking of trying for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Opening Ceremonies at Beijing are August 8, 2008 — Suzy’s 40th birthday. To make the 1500 team, she’d have to run a Trials qualifying standard of 4:19.50 (or 4:10 if more than 30 run the slower time). She said in the article that she’d use the Crazylegs Classic 8K (5 mile) run as a test of her fitness. Her time was 37:11 — or 7:26 mile pace. Not bad for most 38-year-olds. She’ll have to crank it up a few notches in 2008.
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That’s remarkably slow for someone like her and she must have treated it as a very gentle jog. I wonder when was the last time she placed twelfth in a race, never mind her age group?
If she was moderately fit she run ten minutes quicker.
Agreed, for an athlete of her calibre, that’s pretty embarassing, especially in light of her interest in making an Olympic team. Possibly she was pacing somebody?
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