Team XO Wins Portland Marathon team title

News Release

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Ross Krempley—Team XO Director
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Email: ross@teamxo.com
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Team XO Wins Portland Marathon team title

PORTLAND, OR. —3 October 2004— Three Team XO athletes had a busy and very successful weekend, as they came to the Willamette Invite on Saturday to cheer on thirteen of their teammates and on Sunday competed in their first marathon and walked away with the team title.

Destry Johnson, Patrick Dill and Lance Tompson all displayed very promising marathon potential in their first ever marathons. Each athlete was anxious to get the race underway, but stayed calm at the start and followed the race plan perfectly. Johnson said, “Many people stressed the importance of controlling ourselves at the start of the marathon. We tried very hard to do just that and ran together through 11 miles with ease.” Tompson also commented on this by saying, “Having a pack of teammates running with me really helped”.

As the race progressed, all three gained confidence and started to pick it up at mile 17. Johnson showed an impressive charge catching six runners before finishing in 4th with a time of 2:30:49. Dill and Tompson rounded out the XO trio finishing 10th (2:36.19) and 11th (2:39.14). "Not bad for our first, I think we all can run in the low 20’s," suggested Dill.

Team XO’s 4th, 10th and 11th finish easy placed them in first for the team completion rounding out a great weekend for XO. Johnson commented after the race by saying, “It went better than expected! We sure were happy with our times, and our team performance… I might do another one of these things after all!”