The penultimate day of the 2016 US Olympic Team Trials opened with the heptathlon. The women contested four of the seven events today: 100 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, and 200 meters. The remaining events will be contested Sunday (long jump, javelin, and 800 meters.) In the 100 hurdles, … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 6
The women???s pole vault preliminaries opened the meet up today. ???Around 12??? from the two flights would advance to the final. Heavy rain began to fall midway through qualifying and the event was suspended for some time. Jenn Suhr waited until the bar was at 14-9 before taking a go. She cleared … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 5
After a two day break in track events, things resumed in earnest at the oval office. Events for the women were the shot put (qualifying), javelin (qualifying), 5,000 (2 heats, semi-final), 100 hurdles (5 heats, qualifying), 400 hurdles (5 heats, qualifying), shot put (final), 1500 (3 heats, … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 4
The women???s steeplechase semi-finals kicked off the Independence Day edition of the USATF Track and Field Olympic Team Trials. Three heats of 12 women vied for 14 spots in the final. The top three from each heat automatically advanced along with the next five fastest. There were no surprises from … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 2
The second day of competition boasted three women???s finals: Discus, 10,000 meters, and long jump. Other events included the 800 and 400 semi-finals and the first round of the 100 meter dash. The 10,000 started at 11:04 am and the track was already very hot without any cloud cover. Water … [Read more...]
USATF Indoor National Championships - Day 2
Women???s Masters Mile The female middle distance action got started with the Masters Mile. Eight women qualified for the event, but after three scratches the field was set at five. Sonja Friend-Uhl of the Atlanta Track Club was the fastest qualifier (4:49) and would run the race solo winning in … [Read more...]
Byline to Finish Line: Willow Creek Triathlon Race Report
Somewhere in the lake was an orange buoy. I noticed it when I first arrived at Quaker Lake, but now it was gone, vanished behind a thick fog which had settled into the valley of the Allegheny Mountains. The lake, which+ACY-nbsp+ADs-was calm and peaceful in the early morning, had become something eerie. … [Read more...]
Gum Tree 10K recap at 6 months pregnant via @MegganFranks
15 min w/uGum Tree 10k in: 44:40 (7:12 pace) +ACo-6 months pregnant+ACo, 1st in Age Group(1 short walk break)no cool downIt would break my heart if I didn't run the Gum Tree 10K in 2014. I have ran this race nearly every year since 2007, finishing anywhere from 2nd to 9th, and being that its one of the … [Read more...]
Kenyan Distance Domination
Leading up to last weekend's New York City Marathon there was great coverage of the elite athletes, as always. But this year's attention focused heavily on Kenyans, with good reason, as you will+ACY-nbsp+ADs-read.This NPR piece+ACY-nbsp+ADsAJg-ndash+ADs +ACI-How One Kenyan Tribe Produces The World's Best Runners,+ACI looks … [Read more...]
6-Year-Old Girl Sets Half-Marathon World Record
How does a six-year-old girl go about running a marathon? One mile at a time. Six-year-old Keelan Glass ran the Showdown Half Marathon+ACY-nbsp+ADs-last week in 2:47:30. Not only did she become the youngest to ever run a half marathon+ACY-nbsp+ADsAJg-nbsp+ADs-she now holds a single-age world record+ACY-nbsp+ADs-according to … [Read more...]