Olympic Finals: Friday, August 3
Each day I will be listing the medal competitions for the day, along with which athletes from the United States that are competing in that event. Today’s Olympic Finals in Track & Field are:
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Michelle Jenneke Loves the 100m Hurdles
Michelle Jenneke absolutely dominated heat 2 of the IAAF World Junior Championship last weekend in Barcelona with her 13.52. The video of her warmup and race performance was quickly forced to be taken down, but has since been put back up in slow motion and set to the sounds of pretty bad song that shows…
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2012 Olympic Trials and Houston Marathon
This past weekend the Olympic Marathon Trials took place in Houston, Texas. A day later, there followed the Houston Marathon. This also happened to be my birthday weekend, so what better way to celebrate a birthday than to watch some amazing athletes and then run a marathon? It was a great weekend. I knew it…
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GAC Fat Ass 50k – 2012
This evening I went to write today’s journal entry in my copy of the 2012 Runner’s Almanac and realized that today’s quote was quite appropriate. “Pain Is Temporary. Quitting is Forever.” –Lance Armstrong I drove down with some friends the GAC Fat Ass 50k this morning with the intention of running all 5…
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New Year’s Day Boston Marathon
For the second year in a row, I brought in the New Year by heading out to Hopkinton at 6:00 a.m. on New Year’s Day. For 8 years now, Gary Allen has been running the Boston Marathon course first thing in the morning come rain, snow or clear skies. For the past few years now,…
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Stone Cat: Running 50 Miles Through the Woods
Yesterday, I wrote about preparing to run 50 miles and the handicaps and advantages that I had over my first 50 miler 3 years ago. I laid out my race strategy, and today I would like to share how the execution of that strategy went. The morning began with a 4:30 continental breakfast at the…
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Stone Cat: Preparing to Run 50 Miles
My first 50 mile race was almost 3 years ago, right after the new year in 2009. It was the Running from an Angel 50 Miler in Henderson, Nevada. In the year leading up to that race, I ran 2614 miles, averaging about 50 miles per week over that year which included a lot of…
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2011 New York City Marathon Preview
This weekend is the New York City Marathon, the largest marathon in the world. So large, in fact, that they’ve recently decided to make obtaining guaranteed entry much tougher than it has been in recent years by abolishing the 3 strikes and you are in rule and by tightening up the standards for speed based…
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2011 Bradbury Mountain Breaker
Bradbury Mountain hosts 2 trail racing series. The first is the Summer series which consists of 3 trail races, and the second is the Winter series which consists of 3 snowshoe races. The Breaker is the 2nd race of the Summer Series. This was my second year running the Breaker, and I think that it…
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Great Cranberry Island 50k – 2011
This was my second trip to Great Cranberry Island for the ultramarathon, and I had a great time despite the fact that I didn’t finish the race. The only other time that I dropped out of a race was when I was in high school and I fell down the side of a mountain and…