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DeVar and Watson Win Spinx RunFest 5Ks

10/29/2016

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Frank DeVar
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Carolyn Watson
ASICS Greenville Track Club ELITE's Frank DeVar and Carolyn Watson ran to victories in the Spinx RunFest 5K in downtown Greenville, SC on a beautiful late October morning. It was the first competition as a GTC-ELITE athlete for DeVar, who joined the program in August. The former Washington, DC resident led from the start and covered the winding route in 15:32. 

Watson ran 17:07, a personal best by eleven seconds, in the women's division and won by a minute and 43 seconds. 

Their ASICS GTC-ELITE teammates spent the morning working as course monitors for the Greenville Track Club, after working the race packet-pickup on Friday. "It is good to volunteer and also fun to see all the runners in our running community," stated Austin Steagall. 

GTC-ELITE produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and is sponsored by ASICS, the 44-year-old Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery, FinalSurge, Joy Real Estate, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors. ​​​​​​ ​  ​​
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ASICS GTC-ELITE athletes working at the Spinx RunFest packet-pickup.
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Leininger Wins Florida's Lake Nona 10K

10/22/2016

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ASICS Greenville Track Club ELITE's Mark Leininger ran to victory in the Run Nona 10K in Lake Nona, FL on a warm (73 degrees) Saturday afternoon. Following the 4:45 pm start the lead pack of five passed 5K in 14:56. Superior, Colorado's Stephen Piper then broke away and held a four second lead over Leininger (24:19) at five miles. With less than a kilometer remaining Leininger caught the pre-race favorite Pifer and won by a margin of seven seconds with a time of  30:18. He averaged 4:52.4 per mile.

Pifer, a three-time All American at the University of Colorado, has excellent range including a 3:56 mile and a 1:04:13 half marathon and  is also a three-time USA Olympic Trials Qualifier (2008, '12 & '16). His Nona 10K runner-up time was 30:25 

Orlando's Ty McCormack was third in 30:30. Like Pifer, Leininger and McCormack were also qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials marathon. They earned $4,000, $2,500 and $1,000, respectively,  for their Nona 10K placings. 

ASICS GTC-ELITE's Dylan Hassett ran within a trio of women's leaders for the first four miles, passing the first mile in a brisk 5:08 and 5K in 17:02. After passing 5 miles in 27:43, she finished second with a time of 34:29 to earn $2,500 for the second consecutive year at this venue. Last year she placed second in the event over a 15K course. This year's time  averaged 5:32.9 per mile and was a personal best on the roads, besting her 34:33 in the Newport 10K in May. 

Boulder, Colorado's Mara Olsen won this year's Nona 10K with a time of 34:05 and Portland, Oregon's Tara Welling was third in 35:01. Olsen, who runs for the Roots Running Project in Boulder, was a three-time All American at Butler University and has a 10K best of 33:03. Welling  was a six-time All American at Loyola Marymount University before joining the Oregon Project following graduation. She now competes for Sketchers Elite. 

Leininger's teammate, Austin Steagall ran a personal road best for 10K in finishing seventh with a time of 30:55 (4:58.5 per mile). He was only one second behind former University of Oregon standout Jeramy Elkaim's 30:54 in sixth. 

ASICS GTC-ELITE's Kimberly Ruck placed 6th among the women with a time of 35:59. The former Clemson All American passed 5K in 17:25 and averaged 5:47 per mile for 10K. 

GTC-ELITE produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and is sponsored by ASICS, the 44-year-old Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery, FinalSurge, Joy Real Estate, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors. ​​​​​​ ​  ​​
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ASICS GTC-ELITE Place 4th at USA Women's 10K Championships

10/10/2016

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PictureDylan Hassett, Kate Dodds & Kimberly Ruck at team awards.

ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's women placed 4th among USATF teams in the 2016 USATF Women's 10K Championships conducted with the 40th Annual Tufts Health Plan Women's 10K on Columbus Day in Boston, MA. With a high-noon start, over 4,000 women ran the event under sunny skies, but windy conditions. The ladies from South Carolina finished behind the Boston Athletic Association's High Performance team, the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project (based in Michigan) and California's Strava Track Club.


Dylan Hassett led the team with a 19th place overall finish (15th American), running 34:37. She was followed by Kate Dodds, who ran a personal best of 34:49 for 22nd (Overall) and 18th US citizen. Kimberly Ruck had an off day and finished 33rd OA/28th US with a time of 36:17 and Alison Parris, coming off a foot injury,  was 37th/32nd.

GTC-ELITE produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and is sponsored by ASICS, the 44-year-old Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery, FinalSurge, Joy Real Estate, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors. ​​​​​​ ​  ​ 

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Leininger Places 16th in USA 10-Mile Championships

10/9/2016

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Mark Leininger continues to improve his status among the USA's top road racers as he ran 48:56 to place 16th in the 2016 USA 10-Mile Championships in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. The ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE athlete returned to the Twin Cities and improved from his 21st place, 49:24 performance last year. 

On a crisp and cold Sunday morning, Leininger ran near the lead pack for the first half of the race, passing 5 miles in 24:23 (4:52.6 per mile pace). He then covered the second half, which has more hills, in 24:33. His final time resulted in an average mile pace of 4:53.6. Mark previously placed 26th at the USA 20K Championships in New Haven, CT in early September and then 6th at the Great Cow Harbor 10K in Northport, NY three weeks ago. 

GTC-ELITE produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and is sponsored by ASICS, the 44-year-old Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery, FinalSurge, Joy Real Estate, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors. ​​​​​​ ​  ​

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Steagall Wins 44th Annual Gene Mullin InvitationalĀ 

10/8/2016

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ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Austin Steagall ran to victory in the 44th annual Gene Mullin Invitational conducted on the Furman University cross country course. While many of his teammates were traveling to USA road championships (10-Mile in Minneapolis & Women's 10K in Boston), Steagall ran the 5K cross country event instead of doing a Saturday morning workout solo. He ran with the lead pack, which included Furman standout Aaron Templeton who is redshirting this XC season. Both runners had broken away and established a sizable lead after the second loop of three. The two ran side-by-side for much of the final 600 meters before Steagall opened up a slight gap by the top of the final hill. Steagall finished with a time of 15:24 to Templeton's 15:28 over the historic terrain that has hosted two NCAA National Championships and over 25 NCAA Regional Championships. 

GTC-ELITE produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and is sponsored by ASICS, the 44-year-old Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery, FinalSurge, Joy Real Estate, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors. ​​​​​​ ​  ​

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Leininger and Hassett Lead South Carolina Road Race Rankings

10/5/2016

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ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE athletes Mark Leininger and Dylan Hassett lead the 2016 South Carolina Road Race Rankings released on October 2.

Hassett is in her second year with ASICS GTC-ELITE and previously qualified for and competed in the 2016 USA Olympic Team Marathon Trials in Los Angeles. She won Greenville's TD Bank Reedy River Run 10K in April, which is one of the state's most competitive road races. She is a 2015 graduate of the College of William & Mary, where she was a standout in both cross country and track. 

Dylan's teammates, Kate Dodds and Kimberly Ruck, are ranked second and fourth, respectively. 

PictureMark Leininger
Leininger is a graduate of American University in Washington, DC and is in his second year with the post-collegiate, Olympic development program. Earlier this year, similar to Hassett, he also qualified for and competed in the 2016 USA Olympic Team Marathon Trials in Los Angeles. He has a personal best of 29:28 for 10,000 meters on the track and half-marathon personal best of 1:04:26
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GTC-ELITE produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and is sponsored by ASICS, the Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery, FinalSurge, Joy Real Estate, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors. ​​​​​​ ​  
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