Ft. Meade SoundOff: Calway leads military runners in Olympic marathon trials

Calway leads military runners in Olympic marathon trials

"It turns into all guts out there at mile 18 or 20"

Story and photo by Tim Hipps
IMCOM Public Affairs

Posted 1/19/12

(Enlarge) Capt. Kelly Calway (center) of Fort Carson, Colo., runs to a 25th-place finish in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Marathon Team Trials with a personal-best time of 2 hours, 37 minutes, 10 seconds on Jan. 14 in Houston.

Capt. Kelly Calway carved five minutes off her personal best and led all military runners with a 25th-place finish in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials on Jan. 14 in Houston.

Calway, 27, a U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program runner and Bronze Star Medal recipient stationed at Fort Carson, Colo., completed the 26.2-mile course along the streets of downtown Houston in 2 hours, 37 minutes, 10 seconds.

"It was a perfect, perfect day," said Calway, daughter of Maj. Gen. Robert B. Brown, the commanding general of Fort Benning, Ga. "Everything leading up to it went really well -- the best training I've ever had for a marathon: carb-loading, tapering, everything felt great.

"So I just went out there and executed the plan my coach set. First lap, stay in control. Second lap, pick it up a bit. Third lap, it's race time. I hung in there. It was tough. It turns into all guts out there at mile 18 or 20."

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