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Gatorade National Cross Country AOY Molly Seidel surprised by Shalane Flanagan with honor
by anngaff
posted January 24, 2012 at 10:48pm

via release Hartland, Wis. (Jan 24, 2012) – In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS today announced Molly Seidel of University Lake School (Hartland, Wis.) a...more

Big Weekend of Track & Field, Road Racing, Cross Country on Tap
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 13, 2012 at 11:25pm

Professional Road Running The U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon takes place in Houston on Saturday, with the men’s race starting at 9:00 AM and the women at 9:15. Coverage: same-day tape on NBC, 3-5 PM RW/RT Olympic Trials site / Flotrack coverage page ...more

7 Winter Running Tips and Gear Recommendations
by smartrunner
posted January 10, 2012 at 9:29pm

Running Outside in the Winter Tips on Running and Gear Well it certainly has not been much of a typical winter here in Chicago……we have been fortunate to have almost no snow (barely an inch) and warm days.  If you run  in the lat...more

Catching Up on a Busy Weekend of Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Road Racing News
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 9, 2012 at 2:19am

Good evening, and what can I tell you? Cross Country The Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meet, was held in Edinburgh on Saturday. The combined score of the four-race challenge (junior and senior for men and women) saw t...more

Busy Weekend Ahead for Track & Field, Cross Country, Road Racing
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 6, 2012 at 3:23pm

Cross Country The 55th Cross Country Internazionale Campaccio, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meet, takes place today in the Italian town of San Giorgio su Lagnano. Meet website Previews: IAAF, Capital FM Kenya The Great Edinburgh International Cross Coun...more

A story of dedication
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 28, 2011 at 8:40pm

This is the time of year when you get all kinds of year-end retrospectives, such as RunnerSpace’s News of the Year compilation and the top ten Olympics stories of the year from SI’s Brian Cazeneuve. My top story of the year is quite personal....more

Superfan Daily: Weekend Update
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 12, 2011 at 10:13pm

Good morning, and what can I tell ya? Cross Country The European Cross Country Championships were run on Sunday in the Slovenian city of Velenje. The big winners were the Brits, who won all three women’s team titles (U20, U23 and senior) plus thre...more

USATF and road racing update
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 5, 2011 at 1:35pm

This past weekend’s USATF Convention was far more interesting than you’d figure a bunch of meetings would be. More about that later today. Road Racing The Fukuoka International Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, was held on Sunday in t...more

Penn State All-American Caitlin Lane Reflects on the NCAA Cross Country Championships
by CaitlinLane
posted November 28, 2011 at 10:34pm

          This has been, with out a doubt, the most memorable season I have ever experienced here at Penn State. There were highs and there were lows but I couldn’t have asked for a better team. I started...more

Running Recap: Busy Weekend of Road Racing and Cross Country
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 28, 2011 at 10:06pm

Photo: LetsRun.com   Lots of competition over the weekend… Road Racing The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label road race, was held on Sunday in the Indian city. The results were close, competitive and fast; eleven men broke 1...more

Cross-Country & the Roads: Silicon Valley Turkey Trot & Manchester Results, News and the Weekend Preview
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 25, 2011 at 5:27pm

Results, the weekend’s event schedule and previews, and all the news headlines… Thanksgiving has turned into a traditional road race day. It appears both the masses and the pros (and semi-pros) use it the same way: as a fun day to get out a...more

College XC Season in Review
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 23, 2011 at 3:22pm

Over at Flotrack.org, I just posted a review of the men’s college cross country season. I thought I’d keep some for my own website, and posted the women’s season in review here. Upset. Out in the post-race mosh pit trying to get interv...more

Exciting Weekend at the NCAA Women's Cross Country Championships
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 23, 2011 at 12:15am

(AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Over the weekend I took my traditional trip out to the NCAA Cross Country Championships. This is the ninth time it’s been at Indiana State’s Laverne Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, and I’ve been t...more

NCAA Cross Country Championships: Watch the final kick & post-race interviews with Reid, Hasay
by anngaff
posted November 22, 2011 at 11:15am

The race video of the full 6K race of the 2011 NCAA Cross Country Championships at Gibson Championship Course in Terre Haute, IN, is below. Fast forward to 19:00 to watch an exciting sprint to the finish between defending champ Sheila Reid of Villanova an...more

NCAA D1 Cross-Country Championships: Reid Defends Individual Title, Georgetown Stuns
by LHiggs
posted November 21, 2011 at 2:47pm

The women’s NCAA D1 XC Championships race was a great follow-up to a pretty boring men’s race, which featured a lot of footage of Arizona’s Lawi Lalang running alone. Silje Fjortoft of SMU tried to replicate Lalang’s domination, except she attempt...more

NCAA D1 XC Championships Preview
by LHiggs
posted November 21, 2011 at 8:34am

When: Monday, November 21st, noon ET. Watch live HERE Let me start by saying that I put very little stock in the official rankings in XC. So much can happen. Teams usually go in with a solid five runners, and someone inevitably has a bad day. It’s reall...more

Why Runners Should Take An "Off Season"
by smartrunner
posted November 20, 2011 at 9:02pm

Do You Give Yourself an Off Season?? Here in the Midwest, race season is typically from April or May through October.  That is the time of year when most runners are in their peak training, running a higher volume of miles and intervals.   If you trai...more

2011 NCAA Cross Country Championships odds and ends
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 19, 2011 at 3:48pm

First off, a reminder of the weekend’s schedule of events (all times Eastern). Sunday at noon: Flotrack live “blue carpet” show Monday at 11 AM: Flotrack live race day show (like ESPN’s GameDay, but better because it’s cross country) Monday a...more

Penn State's Caitlin Lane Recaps Mid-Atlantic Regional Cross Country Meet in a Tumultuous Weekend
by CaitlinLane
posted November 14, 2011 at 4:29pm

We left for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships with heavy hearts, but happy to be escaping the madness. We hopped on the bus after practice and traveled to Princess Anne, Maryland for the second time in two years. The women were on a mission. A missi...more

Great Lakes Regional Report: Michigan wins comfortably, Toledo edged by Michigan State for 2nd
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 13, 2011 at 11:58am

Complete results Flotrack coverage University of Toledo story This afternoon the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Cross Country Championships took place at Toledo’s Ottawa Park. In case you haven’t been following my previews of the meet, Ottawa Park is vir...more

NCAA Div. I South Region XC Championships: link to public photo gallery & results
by Meggan's Running Blog
posted November 13, 2011 at 1:01am

I went to Tuscaloosa today for the NCAA Div I South Region Cross Country Championships. Snapped a good bit of photos from the men's and women's race. The link to the public gallery is below:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.971461656156.2349168.265...more