Beth Potter had run the Night of 10,000m PBs twice before. Her position in both races was second. After 2016, Beth Potter had focused on the triathlon in 2016-17, lowered her mileage, and guess what happens? She wins the HighGate10k elite race! Running a negative split, and racing with her training partner, Stephanie Twell, the duo hit the 5000m split in 16:10, and battled on. “I felt good over the last 800 meters, ” noted an ebullent Potter, after her race, to the media.
What is different with Beth Potter in 2017? She was relaxed, and obvious that her alternative training, some call cross training, has helped her in her racing ability. Beth Potter had not raced on the track since the Olympic 10,000m final.
Here is our interview, post race, with Beth Potter, who ran 32:04.63 for her win!
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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