Race results and breakdowns from cross country, track & field, or road racing events.
Meb Keflezighi chose a good race for his first half marathon win as he managed to beat Dathan Ritzenhein by 10 seconds this morning in Houston at the USATF half marathon championship race. He won the race in 1:01:25. “I just wanted to make a statement that I’m back and that I’m healthy and that…
Rain thwarted Haile Gebrselassie in his attempt to break his own world record in the marathon this morning in Dubai. He set the world record at 2:03:59 last year in Berlin, but went out a bit too fast in the first 10k in his attempt to break the record at Dubai in 2008. This year,…
Having never directed more than 1 race at a time, I have no idea how Joyce manages to keep track of 5 races at the same time on the same course. The Running From An Angel races included a 50 mile, marathon, half marathon, 10k and 5k option. I opted for the 50 Mile race…
Now that I’ve covered my training schedule for my first 50 miler, here’s what I did in the week or so leading up to the race. I tapered very aggressively. I basically just did not worry about how much I was going to run from Christmas through the New Year (the race was on January…
This Autumn I concentrated on running a fast 5k, a goal that I was only moderately successful at (given the times that I wanted to run versus the times that I did run.) At the beginning of October, I switched my training over to get ready for my first 50 mile race which was at…
Yesterday, I ran 50 miles. At once. Yeah, strange thing to do, but it seemed like a good way to finish off a vacation. At a very rough estimate, I probably burned around 5500 calories or so in the 8 hours that that took. Here is everything that I consumed before and during the race:…
Here is another video from the Blackstrap Hell Trail Challenge, this time from gIANt Parlin. As in yesterday’s video, the transcription is after the break:
A video is now available from the Blackstrap Hell Trail Challenge last month, put together by Jeff Walker using my footage and Ian Parlin’s photographs. He did a great job, and it’s too bad it took me so long to get him the video footage in the first place. I’ve also transcribed the spoken words…
This letter was written by Todd Coffin, whose son will be running with other Southern Maine kids at the National Junior Cross Country Championships next week in Mechanicsville, Virginia at Pole Green Park. Competition takes place in five two-year age divisions, from ages 10 & under to age 18. Their combined time was 68:13.12 (average…
Congratulations to Erik Barr for starting with a 1 mile run at the beginning of November and adding 1 more mile each day through the beginning of December, when he ran 31 miles. Erik ran a total of 496 miles (although he snuck a few extra in there so that he could have 500 miles…