{"id":543,"date":"2011-02-27T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:55:11","slug":"2011-usa-indoor-track-field-championships-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"2011 USA Indoor Track &#038; Field Championships &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2011_USA_Indoor_Day1\">Click here to view photos from the 2011 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships &#8211; Day 1 (Saturday)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The compact venue and open schedule provided an opportunity for me to capture images from events I don&#8217;t normally cover, on Day 1 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/events\/2011\/USAIndoorTFChampionships\/\">2011 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships<\/a> in Albuquerque, NM. Here is a cool Wonder Woman-themed uniform that Loree Smith wore for the Women&#8217;s Weight Throw:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2011_USA_Indoor_Day1\/20110226_190722c_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Loree Smith, Women's Weight Throw.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similar to last year, both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s 3,000 meter finals were decided during the bell lap, and featured three of last year&#8217;s four protagonists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/athletes\/bios\/Lagat_Bernard.asp\">Bernard Lagat<\/a>, who recently lost his indoor American Record for 5,000 meters to Galen Rupp, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/News\/Lagat-wins-over-Rupp-in-Nike-Men%E2%80%99s-3,000.aspx\">sprinted away from Rupp and Aaron Braun with 1 1\/2 laps to go<\/a>, to repeat as Indoor National Champion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2011_USA_Indoor_Day1\/20110226_184247_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Lagat sprinted away from Galen Rupp and Aaron Braun to repeat as indoor 3,000 meter national champion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Hall, who <a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2010_USA_Indoor_Day1\/20100227_204329c_JDD\">narrowly lost to Renee Metivier Baillie in the women&#8217;s 3,000 meters last year<\/a>, was defeated for the second year in a row by a Colorado alum, as Jenny (Barringer) Simpson held off Hall&#8217;s last lap challenge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2011_USA_Indoor_Day1\/20110226_182221_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny (Barringer) Simpson held off Sara Hall's last lap challenge\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view photos from the 2011 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships &#8211; Day 1 (Saturday) The compact venue and open schedule provided an opportunity for me to capture images from events I don&#8217;t normally cover, on Day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}