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Great Cross Country Courses: Lavern Gibson
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 23, 2012 at 7:45am
Other courses are notable for their tradition, or their difficulty, or their scenery. The Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, just outside Terre Haute, Indiana, is notable for something different: here, the spectator is #1.
Fans are #1 a...more
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The Business of Track & Field Contracts
by amyYB
posted October 8, 2012 at 11:08am
The Business of Track & Field Contracts
I have started this journal entry a dozen times with the themes of Doors Open and Close, The Roads Are Open, A Different Path and A New Journey. Not one of those themes seemed to convey the thoughts and feelin...more
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Cost of Training for Elite Distance Runners
by amyYB
posted October 6, 2012 at 12:45pm
The Cost of Competing at the Elite Level in Distance Running
The fall has arrived and the Olympic athletes are starting to come out of the post-Olympic black hole. Some will decide to continue training and others will retire with their dreams achie...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 3, 2012 at 9:25pm
The top news links of the afternoon…
I’ll be on Coffee Talk, the weekly college track and cross country radio show, at WXUT.com from 6 to 8 PM today (Eastern time).
The new House of Run podcast is out. Jason and Kevin recap the race that w...more
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Weekend College Cross Country Wrap
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 2, 2012 at 7:58am
Yesterday I ran down the weekend results for the top 30 men’s teams. Today I look at the top 30 women’s teams.
#1 Washington finished second at the Greater Louisville Classic behind #12 Arizona. The Huskies were without one of their stars, ...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 1, 2012 at 5:29pm
Today’s top news links…
Pro news Berlin marathon fallout. Geoffrey Mutai won the Berlin Marathon yesterday and clinched the World Marathon Majors title and the $500,000 prize that goes with it. But Mutai’s training partner, Dennis Ki...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 28, 2012 at 8:06am
This week’s FloAwards watch list is out, the first of the season. (“FloAwards” makes it sound like it’s hosted by a sassy waitress who tells people to kiss her grits.)
USA Today writes about the new York City Marathon’s ret...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 27, 2012 at 8:04am
First, and most important, is me. I’ll be on Toledo coach Kevin Hadsell’s Coffee Talk radio show, available at WXUT.com from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Today’s guests are Stanford head coach Chris Miltenberg, New Mexico head coach Joe Franklin, ...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 26, 2012 at 9:03am
The top ten links of the later part of the day…
This week’s national college cross country rankings are out. No changes at the top, but the middle changed a lot; many on the women’s side were due to the Inter-Regional Bubble Buster he...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 25, 2012 at 9:18am
The day’s top news stories…
The new college cross country regional rankings are out. Two teams who did well at this weekend’s Bubble Buster right here in Toledo zoomed up their rankings: winner Butler went from #7 to #3 in the Great L...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 24, 2012 at 8:12am
Today’s link package begins with the weekend’s main action.
Matt Centrowitz and Brenda Martinez won today’s Fifth Avenue Mile races in Manhattan. Centro added to his already impressive list of accomplishments, becoming only the second ...more
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Bubble Buster Report (Cross Country)
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 22, 2012 at 10:14pm
The Toledo Inter-Regional Bubble Buster was held yesterday evening at Toledo’s Ottawa Park Golf Course.
Complete results Flotrack coverage page
Men’s race
Team results Individual results The team competition wasn’t really a competitio...more
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Bubble Buster Individual Race Previews
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 21, 2012 at 5:33pm
Yesterday I previewed the Toledo Inter-Regional Bubble Buster in terms of teams—looking at rankings, places earned at last year’s NCAA and conference championship meets, and so forth. Today I’m going to take a look at the runners as ind...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 19, 2012 at 8:21am
Your top ten news links of the day…
The new House of Run podcast is up! Kevin and Jason interview Daniel Gordon, whose new documentary about the 1988 Olympic men’s 100 meter final, 9.79*, just premiered at the Toronto International Film Fes...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 18, 2012 at 7:20am
Your top news links of the day…
Weekend results Britain’s Great North Run half marathon: Tirunesh Dibaba won her half marathon debut, and London Marathon champ Wilson Kipsang won a close, thrilling race. Read the IAAF report.
At the GNR, o...more
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The Weekend Ahead (Traxk)
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:30pm
Track is slowing down, cross country and road racing is speeding up. Here is the slate of the weekend’s competitions and viewing options.
Upcoming competitions
College cross country is ramping up, and the USTFCCCA has all the weekend’s meet...more
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Trackcenter Top Twenty
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:24pm
If you’re a regular reader of this space, you may have noticed that the daily top ten links package has gone silent for the last few days. Truly regular readers of this space know that I’m a high school teacher and I coach cross country in th...more
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College XC Talk Radio
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 13, 2012 at 8:41am
No Trackcenter top ten today, but I’ll be on today’s “Coffee Talk”, the weekly radio show in college track and cross country. It’s at a new day and time: Wednesdays from 6 to 8 pm. You can listen at WXUT.com.
The full rele...more
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Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 2, 2012 at 8:27am
Most daily link packages ignore the weekends. Not this one — the weekends are when all the action happens!
Did you hear the one about the politician who lied about his marathon PR by more than an hour? Not a joke. More about this later.
TFRRS.o...more
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