Last month, Arien O’Connell ran the fastest time but didn’t win in the Nike Women’s Marathon due to Nike unnecessarily starting a non-elite group of “elite” women 20 minutes early in the race. After a firestorm by runners throughout the country, Nike awarded her an equal prize as “a” winner. In my opinion, this is…
Last night, I explained my reasons why I think that Ariel O’Connell did not win the Nike Women’s Marathon this past weekend. After all, she wasn’t the first to cross the finish line. Thanks to a thoughtful reader, though, it appears as though Nike might be changing their minds. Here’s the reply he received through…
Arien O’Connell undeniably ran the fastest time at the Nike Women’s Marathon this past weekend. She had a tremendous race, she ran a 12 minute PR, and now she has a great story to tell her friends. What Arien did not do, however, was win the race. Just because she ran 11 minutes faster than…
The 2nd annual Maine Coach and Athlete Cross Country Clinic was on August 18th, 2008 at the University of Southern Maine. This is the third part of my reporting on the clinic; the first part was about injury prevention and treatment, the second part was about nutrition basics and fueling, and the third part was…
This week last year saw a lot of information on running and running shoes. Nick had a great suggestion that I wish that I had done. He suggested that you take before and after pictures for new exercise programs. When you are starting a new program, there may be some aches and pains, so remember…
This week last year was a taper week leading up to my Spring Marathon. The biggest news this week last year, though, had to be Braxton Bilbrey‘s swim to shore from Alcatraz. I fully expect that we will be hearing his name quite a bit in a decade or so when he starts getting up…
The Nike+ shoes that integrate with a runner’s iPod are about to become much more widely available. In an article discussing the upcoming future for Nike and it’s financial stability, there was a remark from Nike President and Chief Executive Mark Parker about the future of their running shoes. The company wouldn’t disclose everything that’s…
Looking back at this week last year is a bit late this weekend, due completely to the fact that I have a really bad infection in my right index finger and up until today it was too painful to bother typing anything. I’ve managed to drain a lot of the crud out, though, so I…
Some gangster tried to smuggle $16 million of fake Nike shoes from China into the United States. It was one of the largest counterfeit merchandise smuggling schemes in recent history. I can see somebody on a street corner in New York opening up his jacket. “Hey man, I got your top quality sneaks right here…”
This week last year was actually fairly eventful. One of my most popular articles about Lance Armstrong were published this week last year after he had to deny more doping charges (which also had a follow up article a few days later.) I also wrote a detailed article about what EPO is. Eric Rudolph was…