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StumbleuponOLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD TRIALS
Storage 21st in 10,000-meter run
Sunday, June 29, 2008
A new race strategy served Tara Storage well for the first half of the race.
The usually conservative distance runner from Beavercreek turned aggressive Friday night, June 27, in the women's 10,000-meter final of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore.
She stayed with the lead pack for the first 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) but then began to slowly fall off the pace. In the end she finished 21st in the field of 24 in 34 minutes, 24.84 seconds.
"It's a great experience just being here and running in the Olympic Trials," she said via cell phone. "It's a great accomplishment just to make it. It's different for me to find the nerve to go out with the pack. I hung in there, but once we got past the 5K mark I could tell I couldn't maintain (the pace) and rolled it back."
Storage and her twin sister, Kara, had both qualified for the trials running 33:18 (Tara) and 33:19 (Kara) at the Stanford Invitational in May. But Kara suffered a broken bone in her foot in that race and had to drop out.
A Fountain of talent
Hyleas Fountain set personal bests in three of the four events in Friday's heptathlon, including the shot put, 200 meters and an American heptathlon record in the 100-meter hurdles (12.65 seconds), finishing the first day with 3,989 points and a sizable advantage over Diana Pickler (3,750) and Jacquelyn Johnson (3,717).
Fountain, who lives in Kettering but grew up in Pennsylvania, began Saturday with victories in the long jump (she was the NCAA long jump champ at Georgia) and javelin to overwhelm the field in qualifying for the Beijing Olympics. Fountain finished with 6,667 points. Johnson was second, and Pickler third.
