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Ben True Reflects on Season and Looks Ahead

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DyeStatPRO.com   Sep 25th 2014, 2:18pm
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True Reveals His Plans Ahead of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Published by IAAF on September 25, 2014

At the moment, Ben True is taking it easy, but that won't last for long.

After finishing off an outstanding season on the track with 5000m outings at the IAAF Diamond League meetings in Stockholm and Brussels, the US distance runner will soon begin looking ahead and preparing for the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang, China, which will be held on 28 March.

A lot of people will be watching to see whether True can emulate his performance from the last edition of the championships, in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz last year, when he finished sixth and was the first non-African across the line, also leading the US men to a surprise team silver medal.

This year, he has shown the prowess on the track which suggests that he potentially can acquit himself well in China.

Earlier in the year ran a 5000m personal best of 13:02.74 in May, which briefly led the world, and he finished the summer as the eighth-fastest man over the distance in 2014.

He couldn’t sustain that level of performance through to the end of the summer. “(Travel) caught up with me. It's something I'll have to change (for next season),” he reflected.

Nevertheless, his only real regret is that he could not fit a race over 10,000m into his schedule at the right time.

“I really enjoy running the 5000m,” said True. “I think I'm still open to running the 1500m and the 10,000m,  the high level 10,000m (races) are few and far between these days.”

Read the full article at: www.iaaf.org

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