Kenenisa Bekele sets 10k world record

Kenenisa Bekele has cut about 3 seconds off his previous best to run a world record 10k in 26:17.53. “I had tried to beat the World record (5000m) in London but the pacemakers there were not too good, and in Hengelo (10,000m)I had to compete in bad weather....

Stair climbing world records

I read an article about a Chicago woman who wants to break the world record in stair climbing this past weekend. The article was written on July 26, and she was supposed to do the climbing on July 30. I could not find anything about the results of that stair climb....

The Yarmouth Clam Festival Classic (2005)

The 40th annual Yarmouth Clam Festival is this weekend, and the 24th running of the Clam Festival Classic 5 mile road race was this morning. The temperature was a cool 84 degrees (compared to last year’s 96 fahrenheit) despite starting at 8 o’clock in the...