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Feb. 23-24, 2008 - Swiss Indoor Championships, St. Gallen

Hilary runs new indoor pb and first place at Swiss Champs

This past weekend Hilary had one last competition before the World Indoors in two weeks. She stepped down in distance to work on speed by racing the 800m at the Swiss Indoor Championships and it proved to be a successful test.

On day one of the championships, Hilary advanced to the final by running a 2:10 to easily win her heat, running the last 400m in 62 seconds. She explained that the heats were good practice for what’s to come in Valencia.

“My goal for this weekend was to get something out of both rounds of the 800m. So for the heat I wanted to run tactically for the first half and then have a quick change of pace for the second half,” said Hilary. “ Looking at past world indoor 1500s, it seems there are a lot of pace changes so I think this was good practice.”

In the Swiss final, Hilary led wire-to-wire in an attempt for a new pb and she was successful by running 2:06.72. Although happy with a pb, she claims she wasn’t quite satisfied with this run.
“Pb’s are always nice, but I didn’t run a very smart race,” said Hilary about the final. “I went out too fast over 400m by about a second more than I wanted and that hurt my overall time because I faded a bit. Nevertheless, it was a good stimulus and prep for Valencia.”

Hilary will meet the Canadian team in Valencia, Spain for the World Indoor Champs from March 7-9th. Find full coverage on www.iaaf.org.

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