Kipchoge Gets First Carlsbad 5000 Victory
- April 11, 2010
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Competitor.com’s Matt Fitzgerald spoke to Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge after his dominating victory at the 2010 Carlsbad 5000.
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Defar Wins Third Carlsbad 5000
- April 11, 2010
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Competitor.com’s Matt Fitzgerald caught up with three-time Carlsbad 5000 champion Meseret Defar after her 2010 win.
Read Full Story »Kipchoge, Defar Win Carlsbad 5000
- April 11, 2010
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Wind foils world record attempts, however. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Eliud Kipchoge gave a world record-worthy performance at the Carlsbad 5000 Sunday, but Mother Nature did not cooperate to support his bid to lower the 5K world record of 13:00, set by Sammy Kipketer at the same event in 2000 and matched by the same [...]
Read Full Story »Makau Joins The 2:04 Club
- April 11, 2010
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Kenyan Patrick Makau won Sunday’s Rotterdam Marathon in 2:04:47, the fourth-fastest time ever. A trio of Kenyan runners ran at world-record pace through most of Sunday’s Rotterdam Marathon, but faded just a bit at the end. Second-place finisher Geoffrey Mutai also squeaked under the previous fourth-fastest time ever, at 2:04:54. Not to be overlooked is [...]
Read Full Story »Meseret Defar Discusses World Record Bid
- April 09, 2010
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Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar will attempt to break her own 5K world record of 14:46 at the Carlsbad 5000 Sunday. She tells Competitor.com’s Matt Fitzgerald she’s ready.
Read Full Story »Been There, Done That
- April 09, 2010
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Howard Duncan, 49, is one of 18 runners who will run the Carlsbad 5000 for the 25th time on the event’s 25th anniversary Sunday. Interview by: Matt Fitzgerald You might think that someone who has run the same race every year for a quarter-century is actively trying to keep his streak alive. And since Howard [...]
Read Full Story »How Low Can They Go?
- April 08, 2010
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This year’s Carlsbad 5000 assembles some of the fastest elite fields ever. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Let’s start with the easy prediction: The winners of Sunday’s Carlsbad 5000 men’s and women’s elite races will almost certainly come from Ethiopia and/or Kenya. Representatives of these two countries bring the five fastest personal-best times at the contested [...]
Read Full Story »Why So Fast?
- April 06, 2010
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The Carlsbad 5000 proves there’s more to a fast race than a flat course. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald When you’re looking for a fast road race to run, what exactly do you look for? A fast course, naturally, with smooth pavement, no hills and few sharp turns. But a first-hand experience of the Carlsbad 5000, [...]
Read Full Story »Competitor Writer’s Story In New Chicken Soup Book For Runners
- March 25, 2010
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Chicken Soup Publishing, publishers of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, announced today that Competitor senior writer Matt Fitzgerald has had a story accepted for publication in the forthcoming collection, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners. Fitzgerald’s story, entitled “The Circle Is The Only Geometry,” recounts the author’s journey from falling in [...]
Read Full Story »Train Your Age
- March 24, 2010
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The best way to train depends on your age and how old you are and how long you’ve been in the sport. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald To get the most out of your training, it’s important that you customize it to the needs and capabilities of your unique body. There are several important variables to [...]
Read Full Story »It’s A HIIT. Or Is It?
- March 23, 2010
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The current mania for high-intensity interval training has some runners wondering if they’re wasting their time “jogging”? Written by: Matt Fitzgerald The fields of personal training and strength and conditioning coaching are dominated by men and women with backgrounds in bodybuilding and team sports. The typical personal trainer or strength and conditioning coach has little [...]
Read Full Story »Get Your Training Questions Answered
- March 22, 2010
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Got training questions? Triathlete Magazine has answers. Beginning with the May issue, Triathlete Magazine will publish a new and improved “Dear Coach” column in which a top coach will answer a question from a real Triathlete reader.
Read Full Story »Tadese Does It!
- March 21, 2010
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Eritrean sets new half marathon world record of 58:23 at Lisbon Half Marathon. Zersenay Tadese bested Kenyan Sammy Wanjiru’s half marathon world record by 10 seconds in Lisbon, Portugal Sunday. Along the way he also took down Haile Gebrselassie’s 20 km world record, which he lowered from 55:48 to 55:21. For More: IAAF Web site
Read Full Story »Tadese To Chase Half Marathon Record In Lisbon
- March 19, 2010
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The Eritrean half-marathon genius will have plenty of other fast runners to push him along. The EDP Lisbon Half Marathon, which takes place Sunday in Portugal’s capitol city, is always fast, but this year organizers hope it proves to be the fastest half marathon ever run. Zersenay Tadese has announced that his goal is to [...]
Read Full Story »Sports Science Update: Perception Is Everything
- March 18, 2010
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A fascinating study by exercise physiologist Samuele Marcora has proven that fatigue in endurance is nothing more and nothing less than quitting. Interview by: Matt Fitzgerald The design was simple, but the results were profound. Samuele Marcora, an Italian-born exercise physiologist at England’s Bangor University, and his colleague Walter Staiano brought 10 male athletes into [...]
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