MRC PERFOMANCE OF THE WEEK: Anna Cowan & Alex Nichols

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Defending indoor 400m champion Alex Nichols of Brunswick opened his season with a blistering 51.24 effort over the 2 lap distance. Nichols who ran 51.05 to win the state meet a year ago is in late season form to open the season. Alex who has his sites set on breaking the Maine indoor all-time best of 49.93 this year. Currently Nichols is ranked #9 in the country for 400m distance. In the same meet Alex added the #1 time in the 200m, 23.27.

On the girls side Anna Cowan of Brunswick receieved 13 votes to edge Thornton Academy's Charlotte Pierce. Cowan ran 2:29.08 in the 800m, the #2 time in the state this winter so far. She also ran a leg on a strong 4x800 effort (10:22.74).  Anna finished 7th in the Class A indoor 800m race last winter running her personal best of 2:24.42.

Congratulations to both Anna & Alex on being selected as the Maine Running Company Performance of the Week

 

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