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have in her abilities into good —
and consistently improving —
times on the track.
At last weekend’s invitational,
Larkin ran her second-fastest
wind-legal time of the season
(14.46). That one week after she
(( The physical part of
running is probably 30
percent, and mentally,
the other 70 you need to
be confident.
Katie Crab
track and field
ran a season best and two person
al bests in one day, beating her
first mark with a wind-aided time
of 14.29 at the Oregon Invitation
al.
“It was frustrating to not be run
ning the times I’ve been capable
of,” Larkin said last week. “But
then PR-ing, it means everything
to me. And I was more happy for
my coach, Mark Stream, than I
was for me.
“Because he believed in me,
you know? He knew I could do it.
So when I was done, he wasn’t re
ally surprised, just happy. Like ‘I
knew you could do it.’”
And now, so does Larkin.
“I’ve kind of shown all the oth
er schools who I am,” she said.
“That I can run with them. I hon
estly feel like a different person.”
Senior Katie Crabb, one of the
few veteran athletes on the young
Oregon women’s squad, knows
what one great performance can
do for an athlete. The Pacific-lO’s
leading 1,500-meter runner
(4:19.88) also knows what one
poor race can do.
And she completely compre
hends the that the best thing to do
is sometimes just forget about it.
Although that doesn’t make doing
so easy.
“Confidence is definitely one of
the hardest things,” Crabb said.
“After you’re let down in a race
and you run considerably slower
than you had in the weekend be
fore, it can clearly put the brakes
on how you feel about vour run
ning.
“The physical part of running is
probably 30 percent, and mental
ly, the other 70 you need to be
confident. So sometimes you just
have to put a race in the bag, you
just have to put it away.
“But understanding that and
being able to do it are two differ
ent things. It’s easy to doubt your
self— but personally, I’m feeling
pretty good about myself.”
As are Larkin and Elstrom these
days, having seemingly shed a
good deal of doubt.
Elstrom, for one, said she’s
ready to turn an impressive week
end into an impressive streak this
Saturday.
“I felt really good at the meet
this weekend, and I feel like I can
do even better at the Twilight,” El
strom said.
Like, NCAA-automatic qualify
ing time better?
“Yeah,” said Elstrom, without
even the slightest hesitation.
“Yeah.”
Additional Smith Invite stars
Sophomore sprinter Endia
Abrante won her section of the
200 with a season best of 25.13.
Her teammates Heather Mur
taugh, Jenny Kenyon and Janette
Martin, who finished third
(25.41), fifth (25.70) and sixth
(25.85), respectively, in the same
section.
Kenyon also continue'd to pre
pare for this weekend’s Pac-10
heptathalon competition, claim
ing PRs in the long jump (18-9
3/4) and the 100 hurdles (14.82).
Also in the hurdle competition,
sophomore Shannae McNairy
rank a wind-legal season best of
25.76.
Back on track?
Saturday’s marquee event,
without question, is the men’s
mile, a.k.a. the Twilight Mile. It of
fers top finishers incentive be
yond respect and bragging rights.
The winner takes home $1,000,
"the runner-up gets $500, and $300
is offered for third — if the times
are less than four minutes.
The field includes the No. 2
and 3-ranked milers in the nation
Seneca Lassiter and David Krum
menacker.
And it could also include a cer
tain Duck who has been sidelined
because of illness for almost the
entire season.
“There’s a rumor,” Crabb said.
“That [All-American] Steve Fein
is going to be in the race.
“Because that’s kind of what
the meet is set up for, to get an
Oregon guy a race where he can
run a sub-4 minute mile.”
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