Strategy, training key to success in South American 10K race

– say winners Sheama Tyrell & Winston Missigher

For South American 10K winners Sheama Tyrell and Winston Missigher, excruciating training and a good race strategy was the key to their success at Sunday’s road race.
19-year-old Sheama Tyrell had been anticipating her victorious moment for quite some time, and although she does not consider this as one of her best races, she is satisfied with what she was able to achieve.

“It wasn’t my best, but I tried. It was a little bit fatiguing, but it (the result) was satisfying. I feel super proud of myself, especially since it’s a step (up) for me personally. I feel really proud of myself,” Tyrell declared.
Asked about her training, the young Lindener described the gruelling routine that prepared her to take down one of her biggest rivals.

“Hectic! Long, long fatiguing morning runs; afternoon training, it’s been very, very pressing, but worth it,” she shared.
Asked about the moment she overtook Claudrice McKoy to take the lead in the race, the teenager declared, “I wasn’t worried, because I know my training and how I was training. I know that I was going to win because of how I strategise myself; I know myself.”
The male victor Winston Missigher revealed that he had planned his race strategy according to his opponent’s tendencies. While acknowledging Cleveland Thomas’s talent, he shared just how he managed to pull off a win.
“I didn’t have a strategy, but it was a very fast race. Fish (Cleveland) ran very well, all the athletes ran very well. I know Fish is strong right about now, but I know I had to hold him off and bring him down to the end of the race,” Missigher shared.
“That was my plan in the race,” he disclosed. “I knew it would come down to the end between me and him. All I know, I just had to hold him off and outsprint him to the end, ‘cause I know he don’t have any speed on me right now. But he’s very strong, ‘cause he training all the time, and he’s a very good distance athlete.” (Jemima Holmes)