Kirsten Kasper was on the 2011 Georgetown team that won an NCAA cross-country title. Now, at 32, she is going to the Games for the first time.
Kirsten Kasper’s track workout in Boulder, Colorado, on July 12 would look recognizable to any top runner: 2 x 2K, 2 x 1 mile, 2 x 800, with her paces getting faster as the intervals got shorter. In all, it was about 5.5 miles of hard running.Her aim? Running a fast 10K at the Olympics in Paris on July 31.Kasper won’t be running on a track, however. She’ll be on the streets. And she’ll go into that 10K race having already completed a 1500-meter swim and a 40K bike ride.
But when they recruited me to do triathlon, they saw right away from my stroke I had the potential to do well.”She knew how to ride a bike. But racing one was a different matter. “Riding in a pack, drafting, bike skills—I got thrown into that very quickly and had a steep learning curve, for sure,” she said. “If you’re athletic it comes naturally, just competing like that. But definitely there are skills in riding I had to learn.
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