 アメリカで９月１５日に開催された"Duluth Northshore Marthon"結果はネット速報で流れたように Sportvital Rollerblade の Diego Rosero がブッ千切りの強さで２位のJoey Mantia を 1.5マイル後方に置き去り、タイム1:04:47で優勝、病欠したCali の雪辱を果たし復活を印象付けました。本年度レースの〆に成るのか、フィットネススケーターの参加者も多いようです。オープンクラスは２５６２名が完走で平均タイムは２時間２３分でした。よく耳にするレースの割にほとんどコースなど知らないのですが、ようやく動画が出揃ったようなので遅まきながら編集してみました。
Rosero wins NorthShore Inline MarathonA virus kept Diego Rosero out of the World Inline Championships last month in his hometown of Cali, Colombia. He was deflated, especially having to miss the men’s marathon on Aug. 25, but the problem affecting his heart rate was remedied.
On Saturday, 21 days later, he was in Duluth winning the 12th annual NorthShore Inline Marathon in his fifth 26.2-mile tour from Two Harbors to Harbor Drive. Diego Rosero Calad,the winner of the 2007 Northshore Inline Marathon catches his breath after crossing the finish line. Calad won the race with a time of 1:04:47.
Brigyte Mendez, 22, won the women’s division in an unofficial 1:24:37 — falling short of the Heather Gunnin’s record of 1:10:26. The pack of skaters that follow are from the women's division.
Duluth News Tribune: Rosero wins NorthShore Inline Marathon
The skating marathon follows the Grandma's Marathon route from Two Harbors to Lemon Drop Hill in Duluth. Then skaters take the freeway downtown, exit to Fifth Avenue West, circle the DECC and finish at the Irvin Ship. | Events- Elite
- finishers: 208
- average time: 01:25:37
- Half Marathon
- finishers: 335
- average time: 01:19:34
- Kids Sprint
- Open Class - Marathon
- finishers: 2562
- average time: 02:22:58
- Team Competition
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NorthShore Inline Marathon Results - 2007 | | Elite Male Results | Elite Female Results |
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- Diego Rosero Calad (61) 1:04:47
- Joey Mantia (49) 1:09:42
- Julian Rivera (79) 1:09:43
- David Sarmiento Guerra (7) 1:14:39
- James Springer (28) 1:14:44
- Dane Lewis (46) 1:15:22
- Shane Dobbin (68) 1:15:22
- Wouter Hebbrecht (63) 1:15:22
- Justin Stelly (60) 1:15:22
- Joshua Wood (50) 1:15:22
| - Brigyte Mendez (329) 1:24:38
- Kara Peterson (359) 1:25:50
- Peggy Girgenti (363) 1:27:11
- Jilleanne Rookard (316) 1:27:35
- Sara Sayasane (327) 1:27:37
- Debbie Rice (320) 1:27:38
- Briana Kramer (330) 1:27:38
- Cheryl Kalmus (310) 1:27:38
- Julie Glass (313) 1:27:38
- Chelsea Creveling (306) 1:27:38
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Rosero wins NorthShore Inline MarathonIt was easily the most one-sided victory in race history.
“You have no idea how sad I was when I could not skate in the World Championships. I’ve been working on my recovery, but I’m still not at 100 percent,’’ said Rosero, Sportvital Rollerblade’s No. 1 racer and the world’s 10th-ranked marathoner.
Because NorthShore Inline Marathon sponsors were offering a $10,000 bonus for breaking the men’s and women’s course records, plans were for record attempts. Mantia’s Luigino team hoped to go after the men’s mark of 57:18, set by Chad Hedrick in 1998.
 | | The mens elite racers form a draft line near the start of the 2007 Northshore Inline Marathon on the North Shore Scenic Highway in Two Harbors. |
But the starting field of 2,882 inline skaters for North America’s largest inline marathon faced a temperature of 28 degrees at the 7:30 a.m. start with a southwest headwind of 8-9 mph. It was only 40 degrees at 9 a.m. at the downtown finish.
“For the first four or five miles we did go very hard, probably 30 mph on the downhills,’’ said Mantia, America’s top inline racer, who grew up in Florida. “Then the cold set in and my calves started cramping and my feet started cramping. My knees are killing me.’’
 | | The womens elite racers form a draft line near the start of the 2007 Northshore Inline Marathon on the North Shore Scenic Highway in Two Harbors. Brigyte Mendez (third in line) went on to win the womens race with a time of 1:24:37.7 |
“If we had known about the headwind at the start, we wouldn’t have gone for it. It was incredibly cold. I was having to work way too hard to go fast. My body was just taking a beating.’’
Mantia, Joshua Wood, 25, of Sacramento, Calif., and Michael Cheek, 27, of Greensboro, N.C., set the early pace, but abandoned their attempt. Rosero, who was close behind, then made his break and Mantia and Julian Rivera of Medellin, Colombia, went in pursuit.
Rivera, 21, and Mantia would finish just a second apart. Wood was seventh and Cheek 13th.
 | | Elite men's racer Shaunacy Sutter (47) of Hartland, Wis. charges across the finish line of 2007 Northshore Inline Marathon in Duluth Saturday morning. Sutter placed 15th with a time of 1:17:53. |
“By 10 kilometers, Joey was feeling tired and I said to him, ‘Come on, we can do it. We can go after [Rosero].’ We tried, we kept rolling, but after awhile it wasn’t to get a good time, it was for place,’’ said Rivera, sixth in the World Inline Championships marathon.
The eventual champion quickly built a lead of more than two minutes and was by himself the last third of the race.
Rosero, fifth here in 2003 and 2004, was almost pedestrian as he came to the finish alongside of the William A. Irvin oreboat. He averaged 24.3 mph. Mantia and Rivera averaged 22.6 mph, and nearly another five minutes back was Colombian native David Sarmiento, 25, of Mankato, Minn., fourth in 1:14:38.9.
 | | Paul DiJulio (left) tries to give Diego Rosero Calad a jacket so that he can stay warm at the finish line of the 2007 Northshore Inline Marathon in Duluth Saturday morning. Calad won the marathon with a time of 1:04:47. |
“All of a sudden [Mantia] didn’t want to go anymore. I asked him if he was all right and he said, ‘I’m fine,’ ’’ said Rosero, who is 5-foot-7 and 136 pounds. “I didn’t know what the [Luigino] team tactics were. I thought maybe he was saving himself for the final sprint.’’
“I only accelerated a little bit after that, and I turned around and no one was there. I turned around a couple of times after that to see if they were gaining on me, but no one was there.’’
Rosero earned $1,000 from a prize money purse of $10,400; Mantia made $700 and Rivera $300.
 | | Inline marathon racers create interesting shadows as they enter the chute to the finish line of the 2007 Northshore Inline Marathon as spectators line Harbor Drive in Duluth to cheer them in. |
In the moments after the race, Rosero took off his racing gloves and had some friends warm up his frigid hands. He was cold but feeling so much better than a month ago.
Duluth News Tribune: Rosero wins NorthShore Inline Marathon
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