Track and Field Blogs - Dot McMahan

With the 20k champs behind me, I’m looking ahead to the rest of my fall training. I’ll be racing two more high profile events. The first is the US 8k national champs in two weeks. In the past, shorter distances like this haven’t been my strength. However the course has some hills so it should help me perform well against some quicker ladies. The second race is the World Half Marathon champs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This will be my second World Half team. Second to the marathon trials, there was one more thing I wanted to accomplish this year….make another world team. I feel extremely honored to have been chosen to represent my country. I have big goals for myself and thus far training is going in the right direction. In addition, I’m confident that our team will perform well. I haven’t seen a press release yet so I can’t name names, but I can say it’s a good team. I think we’re all capable of running under 74 minutes on any given day….and on a good day, we’re all running sub 72. I’ve put together some interesting stats from previous years: Best team finish, 5^th place in 2000; Best individual places, 10^th place Milena Glusac in 2000 followed by 12^th place Sylvia Mosqueda in 2003. This research has me geared up and focused on my goals!!! Check out the additional USA world team stats below:

1997

11 USA 3:43:20
33 PRICE Katrina USA 1:13:07
53 CRAIN Jennifer USA 1:15:05
54 TRUJILLO Maria USA 1:15:08
59 MASUOKA Lorraine USA 1:16:09
66 KRUSE Renee USA 1:17:11

1998

13 UNITED STATES 3:41:45

28 Jody Hawkins 1:12:38

42 STEELY Shelly 1:14:06

51 MCNAMARA Christine 1:15:01

61 PAINTER Trina 1:16:10

62 PAWELEK Kim 1:16:22

1999

10 United States 3:48:27

39 Byrne Michelle 1:15:55

39 Byrne Michelle 1:15:55

40 Fitzsimmons Lynn 1:16:14

41 McNamara Christine 1:16:18

42 Boyd Marie 1:16:37

53 Liljeblad Kelly 1:19:23

2000

5 United States 3:49:03

10 Glusac Milena 1:13:53

23 Beaney Kristin 1:16:20

35 Steely Shelly 1:18:50

42 Keeler Kelly 1:21:51

2001

8 United States 3:40:18

24 Glusac Milena 1:11:34

36 Mosqueda Sylvia 1:14:04

43 Beck Susannah 1:14:40

47 Hostetler Monica 1:15:21

52 Holinka Alison 1:16:36

2002

10 United States 3:50:49

52 Guiterrez Rosa 1:16:28

53 Demko Misti 1:16:51

54 Pawelek Kim 1:17:30

55 Somers Linda 1:17:38

56 Hostetler Monica 1:18:02

2003

10 USA 3:44:22

12 1:11:22 Sylvia Mosqueda

40 1:15:20 Magdalena Lewy-Boulet

48 1:17:29 Christine Clifton

52 1:18:03 Sara Wells

2004

7 USA 3:53:31

33 1:17:09 Emily Nay

35 1:17:40 Kimberly Fitchen-Young

36 1:18:42 Melissa White

38 1:19:48 Heather Tanner

2005

9 USA 3:49:50

38 Laura Turner 1:16:11

43 Jenny Spangler 1:16:41

46 Stephanie Bylander 1:16:58

48 Dorothy McMahan 1:18:44

53 Michelle LaFleur 1:20:36

2007

6 USA 3:34:26

16 Deena Kastor 1:09:38

27 Katie McGregor 1:12:01

32 Tara Storage 1:12:47

34 Desiree Davila 1:12:54