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Mammoth Is Interesting

Everyone in Mammoth got so used to seeing Meb Keflezighi running around town this season that it's something of a surprise to not see him.

The reason is easy. Mammoth's silver medal Olympian has been in New York, training for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials, to be run Saturday, Nov. 3 in Central Park. He was joined by Running USA teammates and Mammothists Dan Brown, Josh Cox, Ryan Hall and Mike McKeeman.

On the line is a spot on the 2008 Beijing Olympics team.

Although here will be no live telecast of the event, NBC Sports announced coverage between 11-11:30 a.m.

A live Webcast will be available at nbcolympics.com/marathon. This is a live webcast only, with no on-demand replay available.

In an interview in the New York Times on Friday, Nov. 2, Keflezighi said he was a bit nervous about the course, which is run in a criterium style through the park.

“I was hoping it would be the same course as the New York City Marathon, which I’ve done so many times, and done so well in,” said Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist who also has placed second and third in the event. (This week, he trained in Central Park for four days.) “That would have been a big advantage for me. But the criterium course levels everybody out.”

About 120 American men will race over the five-loop course, with the top three finishers earning a spot on the United States team at the .

After starting at Rockefeller Plaza, the competitors will enter the park at Seventh Avenue and head west, running one 4-mile loop, then four 5.1-mile loops before finishing near Tavern on the Green.

Keflezighi has been working hard in Mammoth all summer and fall, running 130 miles a week, with hilly tempo runs and interval work.