{"id":810,"date":"2009-02-11T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=810"},"modified":"2009-02-10T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:16:05","slug":"usatf-mn-teamchampionship-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/usatf-mn-teamchampionship-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"USATF-MN Team\/Championship Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatfmn.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"usatfmn\" src=\"\/running\/images\/usatfmnlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>The 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/usatfmn.org\/\">USATF-MN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/usatfmn.org\/team-circuit\">Team Circuit<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/usatfmn.org\/state-championships\">Championship Race<\/a> Schedule was voted on awhile back.\u00a0 Here is the schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 22nd                  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tslevents.com\/TSL\/Event\/Default.aspx?EID=72\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day Human Race 8k<\/a> \u2013 St. Paul USATF Minnesota 8k Championship\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-human-race-8k\/\">Last year&#8217;s review<\/a> I ran a 31:27 which is a post-college PR.<\/li>\n<li>April 25th                   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getingear10k.com\/\">Get in Gear 10k<\/a> &#8211; Minneapolis                                                  USATF Minnesota 10k Championship\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-day-get-in-gear-10k\/\">Last year&#8217;s review<\/a> I ran a 41:30 which is 2 seconds off my PR in terrible conditions.<\/li>\n<li>May 7th                     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtcmarathon.org\/OneMile\/RaceInfo.cfm\">Medtronic TC 1 Mile<\/a> &#8211; Minneapolis                                                  USATF Minnesota 1 Mile Championship\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-day-tc-1-mile\/\">Last year&#8217;s review<br \/>\n<\/a> I ran a 5:27 which is a post-college PR.<\/li>\n<li>May 25th                    <a href=\"http:\/\/usatfmn.org\/brian-kraft-memorial-5k\">Brian Kraft Memorial 5k<\/a> &#8211; Minneapolis                                                  USATF Minnesota 5k Championship\u00a0 I missed this one last year to watch my sister graduate from high school.<\/li>\n<li>June 20th                    <a href=\"http:\/\/grandmasmarathon.com\/\">Grandma\u2019s Marathon<\/a> &#8211; Duluth                                                  USATF Minnesota Marathon Championship\u00a0 This is a new one back on the circuit this year. I&#8217;m still looking for a spring marathon&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>July 25th                     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tslevents.com\/TSL\/Event\/Default.aspx?EID=79\">Lumberjack Days 10 Mile<\/a> &#8211; Stillwater\u00a0 This is another one being added back to the schedule.<\/li>\n<li>August 2nd                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tslevents.com\/TSL\/Event\/Default.aspx?EID=56\">Hennepin Lake Classic 5k<\/a> \u2013 Minneapolis\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-hennepin-lakes-classic-10k\/\">Last year&#8217;s review<\/a> 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.<\/li>\n<li>August 9th                    MDRA 15k \u2013 Edina  USATF Minnesota 15k Championship\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-mdra-15k\/\">Last year&#8217;s review<\/a> This is my first road 15K and I ran a 1:03:24.<\/li>\n<li>September 13th            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runmdra.org\/COL\/index.html\">City of Lakes 25k<\/a> \u2013 Minneapolis  USATF Minnesota 25k Championship\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-city-of-lakes-25k\/\">Last year&#8217;s review<\/a> I ran a 1:48:40 for my first time at this distance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recognize at least two races are missing from the schedule which is good! Last year I ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-usatf-mn-5000m-championships\/\">5000m championship<\/a> on the track and that wasn&#8217;t very exciting. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-day-earth-day-half-marathon\/\">Earth Day Half Marathon<\/a> was also on last year&#8217;s circuit.\u00a0 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&#8217;t a half-marathon on the schedule at all though.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an interview with USATF Minnesota Long Distance Running Competition Chairman Ed Whetham from <a href=\"http:\/\/downthebackstretch.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/usatf-minns-whethem-talks-team-circuit.html\">Down the Backstretch<\/a> about the 2009 circuit.<\/p>\n<p>[tags] USATF-MN, USATF, Championship [\/tags]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/e41c2dd9-620a-4d39-9771-8443ac78737e\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 USATF-MN Team Circuit and Championship Race Schedule was voted on awhile back.\u00a0 Here is the schedule: March 22nd St. Patrick\u2019s Day Human Race 8k \u2013 St. Paul USATF Minnesota 8k Championship\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s review I ran a 31:27 which is a post-college PR. April 25th Get in Gear 10k &#8211; Minneapolis USATF Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,106,227,45,309,17,14,10,8],"tags":[404,681,679,335,163,154,63,62,134],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10k","category-15k","category-25k","category-5k","category-8k","category-half-marathon","category-marathon","category-races","category-usatf","tag-athletic","tag-half-marathon","tag-marathon","tag-medtronic","tag-minneapolis-minnesota","tag-minnesota","tag-road-running","tag-running","tag-usa-track-field"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-d4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":741,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-rockys-run-8k\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":0},"title":"Race Review: Rocky&#8217;s Run 8k","author":"crossn81","date":"November 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rocky's Run 5k & 8k brought back a lot of college memories for me.\u00a0 I've done a lot of trail races since college, but this is the first \"cross country\" race.\u00a0 So many things about it were similar to a cross country meet. 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