After having to cut short its coverage on April 30 due to the NHL playoffs, NBC is showing the entire one-hour show it planned to air that day on Sunday, May 21 at noon EST.

For 112 years world class and national-class athletes have been going to the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the Penn Relays. This year it started in April and finished the next day in May. Included are scores and scores of events from 100M to 10K, along with 4 by 100M, 4 by 400M relays and tons of field events.

Many local runners go up to live the dream. Terri Rath (42) of Ashburn, VA [right] and Julie Hayden (46) Ashburn, VA [left] have been owning the competition here, racing the Potomac Valley Track Meets held all summer long. This year they decided to take their show on the road. They would compete in the mixed masters 4 by 400M. Below is Julie's report.

"We were the first women's team in the Mixed Masters event, breaking the current American Record. This appears as 4:35.60, although the So Cal team I ran on in Hawaii ran 4:26.55, but for some reason unknown to me it has never appeared in the records. Any way, now we have the faster time of 4:23.48."

We had a fantastic weekend in Philly. We stayed with Lorraine Jasper who lives in the Countryside west of Philly. Everything went smoothly and much as you had told us about, lettering and herding and all. It appeared that a lot of the teams put their fastest runner out first, which was a bit nerve wracking, as poor Miki Smith was toward the back of the field and behind the two other women's teams. Not part of the expected plan! Luckily Miki kept her cool and ran her own race (65.78)! The exchange was not the easiest, a couple of guys muscled in front of Terri Rath when their runners were behind, but before we knew it Terri had passed the other two girls and left them for dust! (66.81) Terri and I had a safe exchange and all Lorraine and I had to do was get round at a decent pace. My legs had taken control a little more than I would have liked in the final meters but I managed to get the baton safely to Lorraine for the final exchange (65.75) and Lorraine cruised around in 64.76. As you can imagine we were very excited when realized that we had broken the record. In fact, it has taken us longer to recover from all the celebrating than the actual race itself!"

#154 - Masters Mixed 4x400 - 50 and older

Pl	Time	ID	Affiliation/Runners

1	3:41.66	A	Houston Elite - Bill Collins, George Haywood, Horace Grant, Charles Allie
2	3:44.24	C	Sprint Force America - Bob Bowen, Archie Glasby, Neil Steinberg, Frank Schirro
3	3:47.44	H	Mass Velocity - Greg McBride, James Morton, Charlie Kelly, Carroll Blake
4	3:52.17	D	Central Park TC - Tom Hartshorne, John Earle, Trevor King, Alston Brown
5	4:04.86	R	Mass Velocity - Tucker Taft, Tom Cunningham, Ralph Souppa, Jeff Elliot
6	4:06.83	I	Shore AC - Rick Lapp, Tony Plaster, Harry Nolan, Bill Clifton
7	4:23.48	K	Athena TC - Michaeli Smith, Terrri Rath, Julie Hayden, Lorraine Jasper
8	4:36.41	O	Garden State AC - Glen Schmehl, Farah Shabazz, Bob Fuhrman, Paul Henry
9	4:39.76	F	Pineland Striders
10	4:49.51	M	Central Park TC - Joe Bolster, Andrea Ostrowski, Susan Pearsall, Sue Hill
11	4:58.00	N	Shore AC - Beth Zebuth, Christine Murphy, Wendy Glassman, Theresa Marciani
12	5:05.87	S	Shore AC

Harvey Sets American Record
Erin Donahue won the high school girls mile at the 2001 Penn Relays. Alisa Harvey (4:46.29) breaks the U.S. Masters record in the 40-44 age group. Laurie Binder set the previous mark of 4:54.0 in 1991. Harvey also set U.S. Masters record for the 1500- meter event, with a 4:26.49 time en route. Joan Nesbit set the previous mark of 4:32.73 in 2002.

#265 - Olympic Development Women Mile Run

Pl	Time	ID	Name	           Affiliation
1	4:35.99	1	Erin Donohue	   Nike
2	4:37.39	2	Jemissa Hess	   North Carolina State
3	4:43.98	3	Maggie Infeld	   unattached
4	4:44.21	13	Megan Kaltenbach   North Carolina
5	4:45.24	7	Calandra Stewart   Texas Christian
6	4:45.62	6	Sascha Scott	   Mizuno Runners High
7	4:45.64	11	Ashley Urick	   United States Army
8	4:46.29	40	Alisa Harvey	   unattached
9	4:48.86	12	Larra Overton	   Indiana
10	5:11.13	10	Jessica Manzer	   Willow Street Racing Club