Medtronic | Team Cross Runs and…

A few weeks ago I ran the TC 1 Mile race in Minneapolis which is hosted by the Twin Cities Marathon as part of their annual series of events. Part of the deal is that every 1 mile runner is put into a drawing for a guaranteed TC 10 mile entry.

You see the 10 mile race takes place on the same morning of the marathon, but has a lottery entry system which caps at around 6,000 entrants. To encourage runners to compete in the 1 mile and the 10 mile they offer 1,000 guaranteed entries to the 10 mile race drawn at random from the 1 mile finishers. This year only about 2,300 runners finished the 1 mile race which means almost 50% of the field received entry into the 10 mile. Including me.

This was the e-mail I received on May 12:

Congratulations on being one of the 1,000 randomly drawn finishers to receive a guaranteed entry to the Medtronic TC 10 Mile! We’d like to offer a special ‘thank you’ for joining us on a beautiful May 7th evening for a great downtown race, and hope the excitement of two national championship races and a sub-four minute mile is still high.

Sadly, all TC Marathon, Inc entries are non-transferable, including this guarenteed entry. Don’t worry, even with this entry you still get to pay the full $60 plus processing fees to race.

Even with this “great prize” I decided to get an e-mail that said this:

Congratulations! You are officially registered for the 28th annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on October 4, 2009.

So I have officially registered for the 2009 Twin Cities Marathon, which is currently just over 75% full (pdf).

[tags] Twin Cities, Marathon, Twin Cities Marathon, 1 Mile, 10 Mile [/tags]

The 2009 USATF-MN Team Circuit and Championship Race Schedule was voted on awhile back. Here is the schedule:

March 22nd St. Patrick’s Day Human Race 8k – St. Paul USATF Minnesota 8k Championship Last year’s review I ran a 31:27 which is a post-college PR.
April 25th Get in Gear 10k – Minneapolis USATF Minnesota 10k Championship Last year’s review I ran a 41:30 which is 2 seconds off my PR in terrible conditions.
May 7th Medtronic TC 1 Mile – Minneapolis USATF Minnesota 1 Mile Championship Last year’s review
I ran a 5:27 which is a post-college PR.
May 25th Brian Kraft Memorial 5k – Minneapolis USATF Minnesota 5k Championship I missed this one last year to watch my sister graduate from high school.
June 20th Grandma’s Marathon – Duluth USATF Minnesota Marathon Championship This is a new one back on the circuit this year. I’m still looking for a spring marathon…
July 25th Lumberjack Days 10 Mile – Stillwater This is another one being added back to the schedule.
August 2nd Hennepin Lake Classic 5k – Minneapolis Last year’s review of the 10k. The Team Circuit requires a certain number do the 10k, the 5k, and also some doing the double! I ran a 41:59.
August 9th MDRA 15k – Edina USATF Minnesota 15k Championship Last year’s review This is my first road 15K and I ran a 1:03:24.
September 13th City of Lakes 25k – Minneapolis USATF Minnesota 25k Championship Last year’s review I ran a 1:48:40 for my first time at this distance.

I recognize at least two races are missing from the schedule which is good! Last year I ran the 5000m championship on the track and that wasn’t very exciting. The Earth Day Half Marathon was also on last year’s circuit. It was the weekend before Boston last year and I imagine that is why it got left out of the schedule this year. It is a little odd that there isn’t a half-marathon on the schedule at all though.

Here is an interview with USATF Minnesota Long Distance Running Competition Chairman Ed Whetham from Down the Backstretch about the 2009 circuit.

[tags] USATF-MN, USATF, Championship [/tags]

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