Magdalena Lewy-Boulet proved that she is more than just a marathoner on Thursday evening, running a massive personal best in the 10,000 meters at the USA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Her fifth place effort in a time of 31:48.58 shaved nearly 32 seconds off her previous best time run at USA’s in 2009. The mark was just short of the ‘A’ standard of 31:45.00.
The Saucony-sponsored pro and member of the Bay Area Track Club will focus on the track this summer and run several 1500 and 5000 meter races in Europe.
Watch Lewy-Boulet speak to Flotrack’s Ryan Fenton about Thursday’s race and the difficult emotional recovery from the London Marathon.
Kevin Liao is your typical running nerd, following the sport for years before starting Spiked Up, Psyched Up. Kevin was previously the cross country and track & field correspondent for Capital One Cup. When not writing, watching Flotrack videos and reading Letsrun.com, Kevin also finds time to run fairly competitively with PR's of 4:12 (1500) and 15:23 (5k) and more famously winner of the 2009 Marshall Clark 4 Mile road race. He is a graduate of UC San Diego (explaining the site color scheme) and current resident of Sacramento, Calif. Among his other sporting interests are rooting for his hometown teams, the San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors.
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