Deena Drossin-Kastor, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts took the Bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. In high school Deena won three California cross country state titles, two track state titles,…
+ See More +Deena Drossin-Kastor, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts took the Bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. In high school Deena won three California cross country state titles, two track state titles,…
+ See More - See Less -Deena Drossin-Kastor, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts took the Bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
In high school Deena won three California cross country state titles, two track state titles, and she made the finals of the Kinney (Foot Locker) national cross country championships four times.
Deena graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1996 as a 4-time SEC Champion and an 8-time All-American. As a post collegiate Deena experienced a great amount of success under distance coach Dr. Joe Vigil. Under Coach Vigil's tutelage Deena captured many American Records including: 30:50.32 for the 10k, 2:21:16 for the marathon, 1:07:53 for the half-marathon, 24:36 for the 8k on the road, 47:15 for the 15k on the road. Currently Deena Kastor lives in Mammoth Lakes, California and is training under Coach Terence Mahon.
i think so!
“I like the bit about women govern their training and racing by stopwatch splits. They try to control the race too much. Deena is basically saying that these women need to let go of that illusion of control to truly race well. I believe that is right on. When in a race if I get too wrapped up in split time I race like a pansy. But when I go out and get aggressive and compete with the people around me I usually do a lot better and it's far more fun.”
“Deena looks sooo much older than she is! It's sad.”
“This guy should be Flo Track's primary interviewer. He's much better than the other guys. Composed, concise and well prepared.”
Good take. And I think you will be right. It’s proved true in the past. Due to greater freedom of opportunities, American women athlete’s will be the first sometimes at something and benefit in initial “world standards”, but once the rest of the world catches on, it dissipates. Pole Vault might be a recent example.
Yep, them African women will follow their male counterparts. Their societal situations will open for the women, and more and more of them will go into the pipeline of running talent. And thoroughly kick our butts with the next generations. We’ll be looking at the Galen Rupp’s of American women and congratulating ourselves on even managing to make the show, lol.
Good thing America “imported” some serious Sprint talent several hundred years ago, or we’d end up totally irrelevant on the world track scene.
We could just go "Qatar" and buy our international distance running talent you know.
“In the right race I think Deena, Shalane, Kara, Shannon, or Jenny B could easily get below the A qualifier in the 5K. A few others like Sarah Hall are probably close.
10k A standard : probably just looking at Amy Yoder Begley, Deena, Shalane, and Kara.”
For the 10k Flanagan, Goucher, Huddle, Rhines and Yoder Begley have the A.
For men in the 5k, Lagat, Solinsky, Vaughn, Fam and Rupp have the A. Teg does not yet have the A, but is close with 13:22, so he has the B.
For the 10k, Abdi, Rupp, Nelson, Fam and J. Torres have the A.
10k A standard : probably just looking at Amy Yoder Begley, Deena, Shalane, and Kara.
She won 2 of her 3 races so far this year, from 8k to 12k and she is always averaging 5:10 to 5:15 in hilly races. She's in great shape.
Deena is truly inspirational, if she can curse a bad running day and lace up the next anyways.... well then so can us other American women :)