How did your fantasy track team do last week at the first “Pick & Win” for the Visa Championship Series? My team put me into 296th place with 91 points. Hopefully this week I will do a little better, but at least I made the top 500. I was less than 30 points behind first…
The USATF has put together a Fantasy Track & Field game for the Visa Championship Series called Pick & Win. You need to live in the United States and be at least 18 years old to win, but each week you can win a gift bag by picking the athletes who perform the best in…
Interested in watching the USA vs The World track meet on Monday, but don’t live anywhere near Fresno, California? Well you are in luck! Track fans can watch the first world-class domestic track meet of the Olympic year free of charge via live Webcast, when the 2008 Visa Championship Series kicks off Monday, January 21…
I wore my new Garmin ForeRunner 305 to the indoor track today so that I could make use of the heart rate monitor. That aspect of my workout was a failure, but I learned quite a few things about my new GPS watch and running on an indoor track. When I got home, I was…
2007 has been a really busy year here at Run to Win. The website has really grown. I wrote more this year than I did last year, and received about half again as many comments and trackbacks. More than twice as many people visited me this year than did in 2006, and there are about…
In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about training and travel throughout the month of September. This week I would like to talk about finding a local track to run on when you travel. Photo by ProdigalSistaWhen traveling, it can be difficult to keep on top…
Tyson Gay followed up his gold medal in the 100 meters with another gold in the 200 meter race yesterday in Osaka. Usain Bolt of Jamaica came on hard after a bad start, but Tyson Gay was able to keep a lead of about 2-hundredths of a second to win the goal. Jeremy Wariner took…
I was in Texas a couple of weeks ago, and the conversation came around to Fantasy Sports (such as football and baseball) and whether that model could be applied to other sports. What do I then discover, then, but that there is one for Track & Field! Last night I wrote about the media coverage…
This week last year was pretty busy, with the Clam Festival and some site news. I spent a lot of time talking about health, both from the taking care of yourself and the treating injuries perspective. I continued my series on icing with a description of how to ice w/an ice bag. On the topic…
Windy Hagar married her track coach at the beginning of the week after coercing her folks into signing a consent form. She is 16 years old and a Junior in high school; he is 40 years old and just resigned from the staff at her school. It is the fourth case in the past year…