Athletics: Felix warms up at Prefontaine

She’ll run the longer race in Eugene and said she plans to run the 200m at the Diamond League in NYC.

EUGENE: Allyson Felix, still pondering the possibility of a 200m-400m double bid at the World Championships, will further hone her 400m skills at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting today. Felix, a three-time world champion at 200m, is the defending 400m champion at the Prefontaine. She’ll run the longer race in Eugene and said she plans to run the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in New York next week as she builds toward the US championships and world trials back in Eugene later in June.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th, 2011.