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Shannon Rowbury's Summer of PRsPublished by Running Times on August 6, 2014 Shannon Rowbury has the two highest American women’s Olympic 1500m finishes in history—a seventh in 2008 and a sixth in 2012. She owns a bronze medal from the 1500m at the 2009 world championships. When she failed to make the 2013 world championships team in her specialty, she squeaked onto the U.S. team in the 5000m and was seventh in the final in Moscow, a fraction of a second behind America’s ace in the event, Molly Huddle. But Rowbury wasn’t setting personal bests anymore and wasn’t getting podium places. The Duke graduate and San Francisco native used “stagnant” to describe her feelings about her recent past when she spoke with Running Times last week. Upon the retirement of her long-time coach John Cook, she moved to Portland in October to join Alberto Salazar and the Oregon Project. Now, the woman who for several years was known for narrowly missing out on breaking key time barriers in her events—she had a 4:00.33 best in the 1500m from 2008 and a 15:00.51 in the 5,000 from 2010—has laid that dubious distinction to rest, running 3:59.43 in the 1500 in Paris on July 5 and demolishing her 5,000m best by clocking a 14:48.68 in Monaco on July 18. Rowbury is, in fact, the only American woman to have bettered 4:00 in the 1500m and 14:50 in the 5,000m. She is also, with an 8:31.38, the second fastest American woman ever for 3000m, behind Mary Decker Slaney. Read the full article at: www.runnersworld.com
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