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2019 Men's and Women's 50km USATF National Race Walk Championships 1/29/2019 "Santee, CA" Page 4 of 10

In the words of Monty Python and now for something completely different. We hope to have a traditional photo story up soon, but as I have shifted to judging, I couldn't take the photos or video. Instead, I had Tim Seaman's athlete Hanna Running operate the cameras. Here are high speed, 240 fps, video of many of the elite walkers.

if you are unfamiliar with elite race walking. The definition states that you must maintain contact with the ground as seen by the human eye. The threshold for visible loss of contact is at least 40 milliseconds or 10 frames with the camera we shot with.

Check back because we plan to add many more videos shortly.

Ever-smiling Darlene Backlund (#33, U.S.) also checks her time as Erin Taylor-Talcott (#45, U.S.) is close to lapping her.

Robyn Stevens (#42, U.S.) realizes the importance of hydration a little over an hour into event. Drinking early and often is a lesson endurance athletes have learned.

Allen James heeds that lesson too.

Ian Whatley, passing Adian Zamudio (wearing #8, U.S., perhaps prophetically) has some portable shade, wide-brimmed style (nice color!) in a tiny patch of shade that will be nil as the sun rises. Ian has a family affair with daughters Jessica Heiser-Whatley (#207) and Victoria Heiser-Whatley (#208) in 20 km.

Melissa Moeller, in a debut performance, had a recent knee-encounter of the scraping kind, but persisted.

David Velasquez, smartly wearing a hat, is in clear lead an hour into race.

Nick Christie, just seconds behind, does too – but why backwards?

Pablo Gomez (#4, U.S.) is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at DePaul University. Do you think he knows his stuff?

Andreas Gustafsson (#113, Sweden) hopes to be eligible for the U.S. Olympic team later this year. He is now married to a U.S. citizen.

Nathan Vanderwall (#18, U.S.) has a somewhat unique and rather determined style.