Slaney has sights on World Championships
EUGENE (AP)—Distance runner Mary Slaney. ex
pecting her first baby in early june, says she’s setting
her sights on the 1987 World Championships.
But Slaney said she is keeping open what
distance, or distances, she’ll be preparing to run.
“At some point, I’d like to concentrate on the
800," Slaney said in an interview with The Orego
nian newspaper of Portland. “I don’t know when,
yet. but 1 think if I was able to train exclusively for it,
! could run a lot faster. It’s always been in prepara
tion for longer races, as a means of tuning up —
never as sericus as it can be.”
Slaney holds the world record in the women’s
mile and American records in eight events ranging
from 800 meters to 10,000 meters.
“In the 1,500,1 feel I can improve a great deal, and
the same way with the 3,000,” Slaney said. “The
800, 1.500 and 3,000 are all good distances for me. I
really don’t know what would be my best event.”
Asked if she is giving a lot of thought to the 1088
Olympics, Slaney said, '“That's important to me. but
right now I'm putting an emphasis on the (1987)
World Championships, The Olympics is a big, big
goal, but the World Championships come first."
For the first five months of her pregnancy. Slaney.
27, said she trained freely, taking part in track
workouts and gymnastics-like drills.
"Then I started having pains — muscle spasms or
contractions.” she said. "The doctor thought they’d
go away, but they didn't. He told me to be careful, to
do what my body tells me."
Slaney. wife of British discus thrower Richard
Slaney, said she knows her running schedule this
summer is contingent on what happens with the
baby.
"Assuming there are no complications, the doctor
said I can start running and doing some things the
second week," she said. "I plan to nurse the baby
the first two weeks, or perhaps for a month. I'll just
go by how I feel anil how the baby is coming along.
“Hopefully, I’ll be able to begin training about Ju
ly 1, and by the end of August I’ll be ready to run.
but we’ll have to see.
“I'm going to stay home in Eugene during the
summer. I’ll probably run some mini-meets here,
and I’d like to run some road runs in the fall, like the
Fifth Avenue Mile. That way. it’s not a completely
wasted year. That’s why we planned it this way.”
Slaney and her husband will name the baby
Ashley Lynn if it’s a girl, she said. They haven’t
chosen a boy’s name.
“We haven't picked a boy’s name out yet because
Richard knows it's not going to be a boy." Slaney
said. “But we're going to pick out a name before the
baby’s born. We’re not going to wait until after it's
born to decide.’’
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MILWAUKEE (AP)—Terry
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