Sam Prakel & Kieran Lumb off to Hawaii for Saturday's Kalakaua Merrie Mile...
The course is an out and back stretch along Kalakaua Avenue adjacent to Waikiki Beach.
In all, 19 men and women will compete in the Merrie Mile’s professional division which features a sex-based gender challenge. Athletes running in the female division will head off first, and 27 seconds later the male athletes will give chase. Prize money is based on the overall order of finish for all athletes.
FAY, ROWE & MARKOVC TO RUN IN EUROPEAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY...
Current Washington Husky Brian Fay (Karen Mitchell photo), along with alums Jack Rowe and Amy-Eloise Markovc are among the entries for Sunday's SPAR European Cross Country Championships outside of Turin, Italy at La Mandria Park in Venaria Reale.
Fay, who just last week set a University of Washington and Irish national record in the indoor 5000 meters in Boston, looks to improve upon his tenth place finish at last year's meet outside of Dublin.
Rowe, who was a graduate student at the University of Washington in the COVID shortened 2020 season, also looks to improve his placing from last year's race, where he finished 18th after going with the leaders early.
In contrast, Markovc is running in her first European cross country championships at the senior level, after moving back to Great Britain from the United States, where she was based in Virginia after graduating from the University of Washington.
The women's senior race gets underway at 3:33 am Pacific/12:33 pm local time, with the men's senior race going at 4:10 am Pacific/1:10 pm local time.
European Athletics will stream the SPAR European Cross Country Championships via its website. The link to their site and the live results are available here.
SAINTS GET SWEEP IN MEN'S 400 AT SEASON OPENING WYOMING POWER MEET...
In Laramie, Wyoming, the Saint Martin's Saints earned a sweep of the podium in the men's 400 meters at the University of Wyoming's Hager-LeBar Indoor Track & Field Venue Friday afternoon, where they competed in the Wyoming Power Meet.
In the men's 400, the Saints were led by John Farrell's winning time of 54.37.
Alisha Saucedo won the women's 400 in 62.40.
Ryan Doidge won the men's pole vault with a clearance of 13-11.25/4.25m.
Saint Martin's runners won both the men's and women's 200, with Zachary Franco taking the men's race in 24.04, and Cree Bell winning the women's race in 26.85.
GNAC hurdles scorer Andrew Boyd had the fastest time in the 55 hurdles in the prelims, running 7.75, but hit several hurdles in the finals, crossing the line in 13.56.
The Saints continue their two days of competition Saturday in Colorado Springs at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Pre Holiday meet.
NOTE: The Honolulu Marathon, European Athletics, and the University of Wyoming contributed to this report.
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