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Conley's Master Plan IntactPublished by pdpreps.com on July 5, 2014 Kim Conley is the 10,000-meter national champion, and her reward is a trip abroad. A trip to train, and to compete, and to continue the incremental progress toward her ultimate goal: winning an Olympic medal. Conley, who was born in England but grew up in Santa Rosa, leaves for Europe today. She is hoping to participate in a couple of Diamond League meets — the highest level of track-and-field competition there — and will be based with a team of athletes in Leuven, Belgium, just outside of Brussels. “It reminds me in lots of ways of Davis, in terms of college-town atmosphere,” Conley said of Leuven. “Just about a thousand years older, maybe. Cobblestone streets everywhere and beautiful old buildings.” Conley’s victory in the 10,000 hasn’t lost its luster over the past week and a half. Local track authority Jim Crowhurst believes it was the first national title by a Redwood Empire athlete in a running event since Ron Whitney, who later coached track at Santa Rosa JC, won the 400 hurdles for the second time in 1967. Conley is appropriately proud of her achievement, but she knows that in track, the start line and the finish line are frequently the same place. She wants to be a force at the 2015 IAAF World Outdoor Championship in Beijing, and at the Brazil Olympics in 2016, and her national title is another step in that direction. “I’ve always kind of had this master plan, if you will, in my head, between 2012 and 2016, and how I’d become a much better athlete on the world stage,” Conley said. Read the full article at: www.pdpreps.com
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