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Galen Rupp, Shalane Flanagan enter Portland Track Festival: Oregon track & field rundown

EUGENE -- There is a lot going on, so lets get to it.

-- The NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships begin a four-day run tomorrow at Hayward Field.

While the NCAA women's competition is concluding on Saturday, the two-day Portland Track Festival starts at Lewis & Clark College.

I skimmed through the PTF's preliminary entries, and there are some big names.

On Saturday, Olympic medalists Galen Rupp and Shalane Flanagan are entered in the men's and women's 10,000 meters respectively.

There a number of elites entered on Sunday, among them Kate Grace (800), Charles Jock (800), Harun Abda (800), Andrew Wheating (800), Pat Casey (800), Mac Fleet (800), Shannon Rowbury (1,500/5,000), Brenda Martinez (1,500), Ryan Hill (1,500), Eric Jenkins (1,500) Leo Manzano (1,500), Chris Derrick (1,500), Dan Huling (steeplechase), Suguru Osako (5,000) Trevor Dunbar (5,000) and Clayton Murphy (1,000).