RRCA Convention / Bayou City Classic 10K Update
Two of the USA's finest young runners, Trent Briney and Mike Morgan, will be attending the 2006 Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) Convention in Houston this March and will be competing in the associated HEB Bayou City Classic 10K, the RRCA 10K National Championship for 2006.
Both Briney and Morgan are winners of prestigious RRCA Roads Scholars stipends given to emerging national distance running stars to support their running careers. Previous winners include Olympics competitors Deena Kastor (1997) and Dan Browne.
Trent Briney: Trent, 27, lives in Rochester Hills, Michigan and trains with the Hanson-Brooks Distance Project. He ran 2:12:34 at the 2004 US Olympic Marathon Trials and was an alternate for the Athens Olympic Games. After winning the Roads Scholar stipend, Trent told the RRCA, "It gives me a great opportunity to be a role model for younger people. I enjoy showing them what dedication, dreams, work ethic, and never giving up can do for them. I like to set an example of the type of character that will enable their passion or passions in life to bloom."
Mike Morgan: Mike is a 25-year-old runner originally from Lincoln, Nebraska who joined the Hanson-Brooks Distance Project in August 2005. Early in 2005, Mike ran 1:04:48 at the USATF Half Marathon Championships in Houston, Texas, but most recently ran 17th in 30:02 at the Food World Senior Bowl Charity 10K in Alabama and then two weeks later was part of Hanson-Brooks' win (running 31:01) at the USATF's Club 10K Cross Country Championships in New York in November. Mike also told the RRCA back in June, "Running has had a positive affect for me physically, socially, and psychologically." Mike's favorite workout consists of a two mile warm-up followed by eight miles of negative split running, starting at 6 minute pace and working down to a 4:45 per mile pace. "This workout is as tough as nails, but it is something that I can fall back on mentally and physically when I am hurting late in a race."
Full information and easy online registration for the RRCA Convention is available at www.rrcahouston06.org, while the same can be accessed for the HEB Bayou City Classic 10k at www.bayoucityclassic.org.
Both Briney and Morgan are winners of prestigious RRCA Roads Scholars stipends given to emerging national distance running stars to support their running careers. Previous winners include Olympics competitors Deena Kastor (1997) and Dan Browne.
Trent Briney: Trent, 27, lives in Rochester Hills, Michigan and trains with the Hanson-Brooks Distance Project. He ran 2:12:34 at the 2004 US Olympic Marathon Trials and was an alternate for the Athens Olympic Games. After winning the Roads Scholar stipend, Trent told the RRCA, "It gives me a great opportunity to be a role model for younger people. I enjoy showing them what dedication, dreams, work ethic, and never giving up can do for them. I like to set an example of the type of character that will enable their passion or passions in life to bloom."
Mike Morgan: Mike is a 25-year-old runner originally from Lincoln, Nebraska who joined the Hanson-Brooks Distance Project in August 2005. Early in 2005, Mike ran 1:04:48 at the USATF Half Marathon Championships in Houston, Texas, but most recently ran 17th in 30:02 at the Food World Senior Bowl Charity 10K in Alabama and then two weeks later was part of Hanson-Brooks' win (running 31:01) at the USATF's Club 10K Cross Country Championships in New York in November. Mike also told the RRCA back in June, "Running has had a positive affect for me physically, socially, and psychologically." Mike's favorite workout consists of a two mile warm-up followed by eight miles of negative split running, starting at 6 minute pace and working down to a 4:45 per mile pace. "This workout is as tough as nails, but it is something that I can fall back on mentally and physically when I am hurting late in a race."
Full information and easy online registration for the RRCA Convention is available at www.rrcahouston06.org, while the same can be accessed for the HEB Bayou City Classic 10k at www.bayoucityclassic.org.
(This release, issued originally through the HARRA e-mail list, was updated with links and information by this site.)
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