Northwest Ultrarunning

USA Track & Field has announced its national 100K team for 2009.   The team will compete in Belgium, at the World Cup race on June 19th.  The men’s roster is as follows:

Greg Crowther has announced on his blog that he will not be participating this year.   This means that the altnernate, Todd Braje will get a chance to participate.   

While I’d love to see two Seattlites run the race, it’s cool that Todd will get a chance to participate.  His February finish at the Jed Smith 50 miler, where he ran 5:30:50…makes him the #45 American 50-miler of all time.  His time is also the fastest 50 miler in nearly a decade (Brian Teason and Mark Godale ran faster at the GNC 50 Miler in North Park, Pittsburgh  in March of 1999).   He’ll be a great addition to the team.    Should be fun to watch this team…I’m expecting they’ll finish much better than last year, where many of them struggled with the heat in Italy.