Kastor Dominates Edinburgh 10K
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Edinburgh, Scotland (May 3, 2009) - In her first international race since breaking her foot at the Beijing Olympic Games, Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, CA) showed she will be a force to reckon with during the summer road racing circuit after she crushed a world class field in this morning's Bupa Great Edinburgh Run.
Running in Scotland for the time, Kastor found the course to her liking as it resembled much of the same uphills and downhills she trains in everyday in Mammoth Lakes. Her winning time of 32:38 over 10K was 36 seconds better than the 2nd place finisher as she ran unchallenged from the 2K mark all the way to the finish line.
Kastor said that she still doesn't feel 100% fit after taking almost an eight month layoff from racing. She did not worry as much about the tough course as she focused more on the competition she ran against. "Fortunately it is what I'm used to back home and I always run stongly on hills.". Kastor added that her foot felt great in practices so she did not anticipate any problems with it during the race. "The only thing I was questioning before coming over to race here was being mentally tough because I'd been away so many months."
