08.25.07
Day 1 Team USA Evening Quotes from Osaka
Women’s 10,000 meters
Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.): The race went exactly how I didn’t want it to go, very tactical and slow, and I didn’t put myself in the position to be up there from the very beginning. I made the mistake t be in the pack where there was a lot of pushing and shoving, and suffered the consequences.
Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.): We’ve been training so hard in the heat. With the pace so slow, I was thinking to myself that this is good for me. With two laps to go, I was thinking that fifth or sixth would be good, but then I thought about running in the sauna suit, and the 90-mile weeks, and the aqua jogging, and I said to myself, “sprint.”
I’ve never been in a race so rough. I was running in lane 2, but I said that I don’t want to fall, so I hung out there. It’s an honor to be here.
Katie McGregor (Saint Louis Park, Minn.): It was really hard t get comfortable and I probably should have been more aggressive. I just think I didn’t put myself in a position t compete. I got spiked, and I think I started thinking about other things besides racing. I was in the back in the beginning, but when it was time to move up, I just didn’t play it right.
