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Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: July 5, 2009 - What a Difference a Year Makes
by anngaff
posted July 5, 2009 at 6:06pm

What a difference a year makes. On July 4, 2008, I woke up sore and dehydrated from competing the night before in the Final of the 3000m Steeplechase at the US Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon.  I'd finished 10th, well out of the t...more

Help a runner couple out!
by LHiggs
posted June 10, 2009 at 11:41pm

Former Hansons-Brooks runners Nick Cordes and Leigh Daniel, now Brooks athletes, are racing three other couples to the altar on NBC’s “TODAY Throws a Wedding.” Some of you may remember Leigh Daniel from her dominating year at Texas Tech in 1999 (at...more

Petrova takes title at Los Angeles Marathon
by Pretty Tough
posted May 25, 2009 at 4:40pm

It’s Marathon Monday in Los Angeles. I had every intention of getting up early this morning and heading downtown to watch the 24th annual running of the race. It was a cool, overcast morning, 59 degrees at the start of the women’s race, with the temp...more

Watch the 100th Drake Relays and the Flora London Marathon on Sunday
by Pretty Tough
posted April 25, 2009 at 10:07pm

by Ann Gaffigan for Pretty Tough If you watched the live airing of the Penn Relays this afternoon, you might have since come down with a case of Track & Field fever. The USA vs. Jamaica relays took center stage, and the packed stadium (attendance was r...more

Inspiration: Dana's Run
by Women's Sports Nation
posted April 21, 2009 at 10:37pm

High School senior Dana Hughes, who will be attending the University of Connecticut on a full softball scholarship, suffered a life threatening brain injury and was unconscious for 3 weeks after a car accident where her good friend Shannon Quail was kille...more

Kara Goucher post-Boston: "I wanted to be the one that won for everybody"
by anngaff
posted April 21, 2009 at 12:26pm

Kara Goucher was in tears. As soon as she hit the finish line. She had given it everything she had on that day and on the hundreds of days leading up to it: the tough training, the sacrifices, the tweaks in nutrition, the meticulous planning of each and...more

Today’s 2009 Boston Marathon: Tune in to Universal Sports, watch Kara Goucher
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted April 20, 2009 at 11:47am

…And they’re off. Right now, more than 25,000 people are lined up in front of the starting line of one of the world’s oldest races: the Boston Marathon. The woman to watch: Kara Goucher. Why? Because many say she’s on her way to becoming the wor...more

Quote of the Day 4/20/09
by mhueter
posted April 20, 2009 at 9:12am

"Other cities have marathons; we have marathon weekend."- Boston Mayor Tom Menino ...more

Boston, Boston, Boston
by anngaff
posted April 19, 2009 at 2:56pm

If you live in New England, the Monday of the Boston Marathon is practically a holiday.  This year, they've really been building up the hype and for those of us who didn't think we could wait all the way until Monday for the action, the Boston Athlet...more

Boston Mania: Running the Numbers on the Boston Marathon
by Running in the Bike Lane
posted April 17, 2009 at 9:29pm

In honor of the Boston Marathon, here is a funny little video about random facts: ...more

Naked Nike!
by anngaff
posted April 17, 2009 at 2:30am

Check out this "mockumentary" just released by Nike.  They even got some pretty high-profile runners to participate.  That's Lauren Fleshman, sub-15 minute 5000m runner, naked behind a guitar.  And at the end, that's Adam and Kara Goucher, ...more

Compression - results in
by Running in the Bike Lane
posted March 17, 2009 at 8:21pm

Poll of the week = unpopular. Boo.I know there are people out there reading this blog! Few people, but still, I can see y'all on Google Analytics, so don't be shy.I left the last "Question of the week" up quite a bit longer than 1 week. Here are the resul...more

Disney’s Princess Half Marathon
by Pretty Tough
posted March 10, 2009 at 8:55pm

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about Endurance Races for women. In compiling a list of races specifically for those with xx chromosomes I can’t believe we overlooked last weekend’s Princess Half Marathon! C’mon. Who can resist a fairytale weeke...more

Nike/Sports Authority ‘Believe in the Run’ Contest
by Pretty Tough
posted February 23, 2009 at 7:08pm

Do you get up every morning at 5 a.m. for a jog? Do you compete in every marathon you can? Are you already on your third pair of running shoes this season? Then you BELIEVE IN THE RUN....more

Run Like a Girl: Endurance Racing
by Pretty Tough
posted February 23, 2009 at 1:02pm

Endurance racing can be intimidating but once you make the leap, the amount of support and encouragement that comes from the community is infectious. Not surprisingly, many of the races for women benefit a female-targeted charity or cause. Here are some g...more

Movie Review: Running the Sahara
by Running in the Bike Lane
posted February 9, 2009 at 4:56pm

I watched a fascinating documentary this weekend on Showtime, Running the Sahara. The documentary follows 3 men who ran from St. Louis, Senegal across the Sahara dessert to the Red Sea in Egypt....more

Meet Kelly Jaske
by Pretty Tough
posted January 23, 2009 at 1:43pm

Kelly Jaske didn’t run in high school. She didn’t run in college. But the 32-year-old placed 2nd at the U.S. Half Marathon Championships last Sunday anyway. On how she transitioned from a fitness runner to a competitive runner, Jaske, a Harvard Law g...more

Goucher gets two wins at UW Indoor Preview
by Pretty Tough
posted January 19, 2009 at 1:46pm

Kara Goucher was the star of Saturday’s University of Washington Indoor Preview meet, winning the mile and then surprising the spectators by jumping into the 3000 meter run 45 minutes later and stealing the victory away from training partner Amy Begley...more

Kara Goucher and husband Adam pondering parental goals
by Pretty Tough
posted January 17, 2009 at 1:10pm

Goucher is encouraged by other marathoning mothers, including World Record holder Paula Radcliffe, who won New York for the second time in two tries last fall after having her first baby in the spring of 2007....more

Obama’s sister says “He is proud” of Kenyan runners at Honolulu Marathon
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted December 18, 2008 at 12:16pm

Kenyan marathon runner Jimmy Muindi shows Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister of President-elect Barack Obama, pictures of his family in Kenya on his digital camera during a reception for the Honolulu Marathon. RONEN ZILBERMAN | Associated Press President-elect Bara...more

Kara Goucher to run Boston Marathon
by Pretty Tough
posted December 16, 2008 at 3:19pm

December 16, 2008 - Olympian and World Championship 10,000m bronze medallist Kara Goucher has signed on to run the 113th edition of the Boston Marathon on 20 April 2009. Goucher made her marathon debut in New York this autumn, her 2:25:53 third place per...more

My 2008 Season comes to a close
by Running in the Bike Lane
posted December 8, 2008 at 4:52pm

After marathon number 2, my season has finally come to an end. This year included a 199 mile relay, of which I ran 16 miles in 34 hours with no sleep, Wildflower long course, where I learned my first race day f.l.a.t. change could ruin a race, ......more

9 Ounces of limited Edition Fun
by Running in the Bike Lane
posted November 14, 2008 at 12:57pm

Through some luck and good connections at the Ironman World Champs, we were VIPs for the day and got to ride in a spotter van for the women pro athletes. I felt cool sporting my VIP badge but even cooler sporting my new limited edition K-Swiss K-ONAs....more

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