al Team Challenge, and the Ethiopian squads will be hard to beat. Teams, which are comprised of three athletes from the same nation plus British Commonwealth and Colorado state squads, are scored using traditional cross country scoring, and the top male and female teams will earn $15,000. There is also individual prize money and time bonuses to further sweeten the pot. Ethiopia scored a scant 11 points in last year's competition, handily defeating their traditional rivals Kenya by nine points. Although only one of their athletes will return this year, Gebo Burka who finished third, the newcomers are top-notch: Tilahun Regassa and Tadese Tola. Regassa won both the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10-K and Cooper River Bridge Run 10-K earlier this year, and was second at last week's ING Bay to Breakers. Tola smashed the Central Park record for 10 km at last Saturday's Healthy Kidney 10-K (27:48) and is clearly in excellent shape.
mzungo.org keeps a close eye on hardcore-jogger Lucho. Keep it coming Tim! ;-)
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