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American Olympians will contest the first major road race of 2010 in New York City’s Central Park 2008 Olympians Ian Dobson and Erin Donohue headline the elite fields of the 2010 Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, a four-mile road race that will start at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Dobson competed in the [...]
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Running USA names the top distance running accomplishments by Americans in 2009. Ryan Lamppa of Running USA took the time to break down the top US distance running moments of 2009. A diverse group of athletes from ultra distance runners to steeplechasers made the fifth annual list. See if your favorite runners made the list, [...]
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David Jankowski and Serena Burla take individual titles. LEXINGTON – The women of Boulder Running Company/adidas successfully defended their title and the Zap Fitness men won their third team championship in four years Saturday at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships at Masterson Station Park in Lexington, Ky. The 12th annual USATF National Club [...]
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PhotoRun.net was on the scene on a wet day in San Diego for the high school national championship. Megan Goethals edged out Chelsey Sveinsson for the title, check out all the photos of a truly amazing race in historic Balboa Park.
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Our partners at PhotoRun.net caught all the action on a wet and wild day in San Diego. Lukas Verzbicas became the first sophomore boy to ever win a Foot Locker title.
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Cox offers insight on how he set his first marathon PR in nine years. Written By: Josh Cox Two weeks prior to the race I came down with a nasty cold. I woke up, my body ached, my head was congested, and swallowing felt like I was downing shards of glass. I was still running [...]
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The 2009 XTERRA Trail Running World Championships took place this past weekend in Hawaii. Max King of Oregon and Kiwi Fiona Docherty took home the titles. Nils Nilsen of XETRRA captured some amazing moments in this photo gallery featuring some of the top trail runners in the world!
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Max King and Fiona Docherty Win XTERRA Trail Running World Championships Written By: Bryon Powell Monday night’s temperature of nearly 20 degrees below zero in Bend, Oregon must have shocked Max King, as only a few hours earlier he had been enjoying Hawaii’s tropical warmth. The fact that King returned to Bend as the XTERRA [...]
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Caitlin Smith and Uli Steidl Crowned The North Face Endurance Challenge Champions Written by: Bryon Powell For the third consecutive year, The North Face Endurance Challenge championship presented by GORE-TEX was one of the most competitive 50-mile races in the United States. The promise of great competition and $30,000 to be split among the top [...]
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Despite injury, heat Kibet still shines. Luke Kibet hobbled away from the finish of the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon this morning. But the former world champion had staved off a troublesome achilles’ tendon long enough to shatter his own course record, and win in 2.11.25, an achievement made even more extraordinary by the 31C heat [...]
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Are 2:05 marathons now commonplace? Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede’s winning time at Sunday’s Fukuoka Japan was a personal best by two seconds, but as fast as it was, it did not move him any higher in the all-time list of marathon performances. Four other runners broke the 2:10 mark behind the defending race champion, who should [...]
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The oft-disappointed former wunderkind gets a monkey off his back. Josh Cox, 34, of Mammoth Lakes, California was hoping for more than the second-place finish and the 2:13:51 clocking he achieved in Sunday’s California International Marathon in Sacramento. But all things considered, he cannot be disappointed. The placing is his best ever in such a [...]
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Luke Kibet and Lyubov Morgonova hedline Singapore field. Luke Kibet rescued a relatively dismal 2008, by winning the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon in a course record 2.13.01 a year ago. This year hasn’t been much better for him so far, and he recognises that it’s going to be a lot harder to repeat his rescue [...]
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2009 individual and team champions to be decided in Portland. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Only one high school sport determines a national champion through actual competition instead of polls: cross country. But high school cross country has not only one national championship competition, but two: the venerable Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, to be held [...]
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Our partners at PhotoRun.net caught some great shots from the race in Charlotte, N.C. The South regional was won by Chelsey Sveinsson of Texas and Craig Lutz of Texas.
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