Australia’s Emma Snowsill and Great Britain’s Tim Don will be flying home with the largest prize purses in the sport. Both posted fast 10km runs to earn the $200,000 victories. See photos of the West Des Moines, Iowa race from Paul Phillips.
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The Olympic-distance race on June 6 will feature a unique bike prime.
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The northwest Indiana race has opened registration for the June 6 event.
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Every year we ask you to make some serious choices. In your opinion, what are the best local bike shops and running stores? Which short- and long-distance running, triathlon and cycling events give you the best bang for your buck?
Below is Competitor Magazine’s Best of 2009 for Chicago. Thank you for taking the time and for your feedback!
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We were on the scene in San Diego for the 31st Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships, to see who would be crowned the king and queen of high school cross country for 2009. Check out the highlights of a soggy day in which Megan Goethals and Lukas Verzbicas earned their first national titles.
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Each region has a contender to look out for.
The 2009 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships will take place this Saturday at a wet Balboa Park in San Diego, Cali. As has become custom over the past few years, the usually dry San Diego weather takes a vacation for the weekend of the championships, leaving the top high school runners in the country to deal with what many consider true cross country conditions. Along with the mud and hills of Morley Field, the competitors will have to be prepared for some fierce competition on Saturday. Here is a quick breakdown of who to keep an eye on this Saturday.
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Lukas Verzbicas on his way to a Foot Locker Mid-West title. Photo: PhotoRun.net
Sophomore Lucas Verzbicas has a chance to become a rare underclass boy’s cross country national champion.
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
It is quite common for freshman, sophomore and junior girls to win the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship. In fact, in the 30-year history of the event, fewer than half of the girls’ champions have been seniors. On the boys’ side, things are very different. Only two juniors have ever won the event, and no sophomore or freshman has broken the tape at Foot Locker. It seems that adolescent male and female runners develop on different schedules.
This year, however, we may well see the first sophomore winner of the boys’ high school national cross country championship. Sixteen-year-old Lukas Verzbicas of Sandburg High School in Illinois is among a handful of the 32 qualifiers for Saturday’s championship race is San Diego who is considered a strong contender for the title.
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Our partners at PhotoRun.net caught some great shots from the race in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Midwest regional was won by Megan Goethals of Michigan and Lukas Verzbicas of Illinois.
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Goethals and Verzbicas capture first place titles in Kenosha, Wis.
Source: Kenny Fried/Footlocker Cross Country Championships
Megan Goethals of Rochester, Mich., and Lukas Verzbicas of Orland Hills, Ill., won the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships (FLCCC) Midwest Regional today. The girls’ race began with a pack of ten runners, led by Goethals, Emily Sisson from Chesterfield, Mo., and Sara Kroll from Westland, Mich. After the two-mile mark, Goethals and Sisson separated from the pack, with Goethals securing the title in 17:24. Five of the top ten finishers are repeat qualifiers for the National Finals. Goethals is a two-time Midwest Regional Champion (2008 and 2009) and Sisson is a four-time qualifier.
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After they were awarded as the 2009 running store of the year we caught up with the folks from Naperville Running Co. to ask how the felt and what the award meant to them!
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Owner Kris Hartner was presented with the award Wednesday night.
Naperville (IL) Running Company has been named the 2009 Running Specialty Store of the Year by Formula4Media, hosts of the 2009 Running Event trade show. Store owner Kris Hartner was presented with the award at the “Top 50 Stores” presentation at The Running Event in Austin, Tex. The 2009 awards were presented by The Competitor Group.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Amy Palmiero-Winters (Hicksville, N.Y.) has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after winning the 10th Annual Heartland “Spirit of the Prairie” 100 Mile Endurance Run on October 11, in Cassoday, Ks.
A below-the-knee amputee, Palmiero-Winters won the women’s 100 mile race in 18 hours 54 minutes 13 seconds. It was the second fastest time in race history and she became the first woman amputee to finish a 100-mile run.
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The snafu turned the 26.2 mile race in to a 400m dash!
At this past weekend’s Des Moines Marathon the race had an unplanned diversion for the leaders as the headed in to the homestretch. Race leaders Simon Sawe found himself trapped behind a train that was crossing over the marathon course.
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Some assorted photos from a fantastic day in Chicago. Our friends at PhotoRun.net offer up a great look at the masses that took part in one of the largest marathons in America.
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Liliya Shobukhova won the women’s race. This was her first time racing in Chicago and she won with a time of 2:25:56.
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