Last Chance to Ask an Elite Runner Your Questions!

Now is the last chance that you will have to get your questions answered in the interview with Emily LeVan on Wednesday night! If you have a question, you can ask it here: http://www.marathoning.org/ask/Emily-LeVan.html If you just want to dial in and listen to the...

Irish Road Rover (2008)

The 2008 running of the Irish Road Rover 5k was this morning in relatively warm but very windy conditions. The team competition was broken into 3 separate types of teams, club teams, open teams and corporate teams. The usual suspects in the top of the USATF-ME circuit...

How to Make Screw Shoes

In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about do-it-yourself home exercise implements throughout February and March. This week, I’d like to teach you how to make screw shoes. Stabilicers are a good product and...

Your Opportunity to Interview an Elite Athlete

If you had an opportunity to ask an elite athlete any question, what would it be? Would you ask about training? About racing? About diet? How about asking how difficult it is for your 4 year old child to be diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)? On...

Susan Chepkemei has been suspended for 1 year

Susan Chepkemei of Kenya has been suspended for 1 year from international competition after salbutamol was found in an off-season drug test. She was given the asthma medication during her pregnancy after contracting pneumonia, which is why the normal 2 year ban for a...