Colby followed that up by placing a strong seventh out of 38 schools at the New England Division III Championships. Junior Mary Phelps (Piedmont, Calif.) qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships by placing 19th at the New England meet. Phelps ended up finishing in 120th at the NCAA meet.

The Mules were led most of the season by sophomore Karina Johnson (Tolland, Conn.). She was named ECAC Performer of the Week after winning a meet hosted by Bates College in September. Her finish helped the Colby women win the meet over three other squads.

Phelps, Johnson and junior Anna Christina Sisson (Oak Brook, Ill.) all earned All-New England status for finishing in the top 35 of the New England meet.

At the State of Maine Meet, Johnson finished in fourth place for the Mules. First-year runner Jess Minty (Concord, Mass.) took 11th place and Sisson (Oak Brook, Ill.) was 12th.

Senior co-captain Megan Hoar (Yarmouthport, Mass.) was named to the NESCAC All-Academic Team.

Workouts and Campbell Trails

Colby's distance training program is divided into four to five phases, with each phase focusing on the improvement of a different energy system. Workouts are designed to improve cellular adaptation, improve running economy, increase maximum oxygen capacity, and elevate lactate threshold. The emphasis is on individual development. Heart rate monitors are used occasionally, to check correct intensity levels, and every effort is made to ensure that each individual is challenged without over- or under-training.

The greater Waterville area is a runner's haven. In addition to the Campbell Trails, a variety of dirt roads within the Belgrade Lakes area, local golf courses, and area trails provide an array of soft surfaces and varying terrain on which to train and endless miles of breathtaking scenery that is hard for the running enthusiast to resist.

Thanks to a gift from Judge and Mrs. Levin Campbell and their daughter, Eleanor '81, Colby has developed five miles of running trails over the 714 acre Mayflower Hill campus. The wood-chipped and grass-covered trails have been the site of state, NESCAC, and ECAC championship races.

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