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Your Morning Track & Field Headlines Aug 10, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 10, 2011 at 1:05pm

What happened yesterday… The EWE Athletics 2011, an EAA Classic Meet, was held in Cuxhaven, Germany. The highlight was a new European U-23 record in the shot put, 21.05 meters, by Germany’s David Storl. Complete results / EAA recap News headlines�...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines Aug 9, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 9, 2011 at 3:32pm

What’s on today… The EWE Athletics 2011, an EAA Classic Meet, takes place today in Cuxhaven, Germany. The BIGBANK Tallinn 2011, an EAA Area Permit Meet, takes place today in at the Kadriorg Stadium in the Estonian capitol of Tallinn. News headlines...more

Lauren Fleshman : A Dream Turnaround
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted August 8, 2011 at 3:42pm

Contest Winners Announced! (See bottom of page) The Race at Crystal Palace Diamond League Photo: Getty Images It was so awesome I can’t even describe it. It felt…good? Yeah good. Like the way 5k’s used to feel before I broke my navicular in...more

Racing in Europe Part 3: reboot
by LHiggs
posted August 8, 2011 at 11:24am

Part 2 Here After nine blissful hours of sleep, I woke up to sunshine and the anticipation of the next part of my journey. Kim, unfortunately, did not sleep well after her late-night 5000m race and had been subjected to listening to me sleep for most of ...more

Aviva Grand Prix: Don't Call Any of It a Comeback - They've Been Doing This for Years
by anngaff
posted August 7, 2011 at 5:32pm

In Friday and Saturday's Aviva Grand Prix in London, the world's greatest track & field athletes were showcased in almost every event the sport offers. The story in many of those events is quite different than it was back in May or even in July. As Da...more

FIT Project (Seattle Edition)
by Sarah Stanley Inspired
posted August 6, 2011 at 4:59pm

Don’t know about the FIT Project? Here is a 411 of it! The Seattle Half Marathon was June 25, 2011, and the weather could not have been more perfect. Getting to the race expo was a different story. I had a conference in Boulder, Colo., Friday morni...more

Lauren Fleshman: There’s Nothing Friends and Dancing Can’t Fix
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted August 5, 2011 at 11:01pm

Getting upclose and personal with the Brits.Quick update from London: I race the 5k tomorrow and I’m feeling much better and excited to step on the line, but it has taken a major turnaround after last weekend’s race in Stockholm. First off, thanks ...more

Travelin' with Javelins
by Kara Throws Javelin
posted August 5, 2011 at 1:51pm

Since April, I’ve traveled on airplanes with javelins a total of 15 times, and 7 of those times have been internationally. A conservative estimate of what I’ve spent to put them on the plane with me is $600 total. That’s pretty cheap, considering ...more

Racing in Europe Part 2: arriving is winning
by LHiggs
posted August 3, 2011 at 8:44am

Go back to Part One I refer to myself as a fake professional runner. This is because maybe 1-2% of my income comes from running, but it takes up closer to 75% of my time and energy. My real job is as a political consultant. My area of expertise is campai...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines Aug 1, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 2, 2011 at 2:46pm

What happened yesterday… The only competitive action of any note yesterday was at the Karlstad GP in Sweden, where the hammer throw was held a day before the main meet. This was no ordinary hammer throw. Swiss/American Martin Bingisser, the premier a...more

Brianna Glenn: My First Street Meet
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted August 1, 2011 at 7:51pm

Let's get the important details out of the way…I chose Eye of the Tiger.If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to make sure you visit my Facebook fan page once in a while because there are times when I really could use the help of the masses...more

Diamond League Stockholm: An Analysis
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 1, 2011 at 12:37am

An event-by-event rundown of Friday’s action at the DN Galan and what it all means… Usain Bolt wins 200 meters Bolt won by a country mile, but in an unimpressive (for him) time of 20.03 and over a very weak field. Bolt still looks beatable at the W...more

Racing in Europe Part 1: the backstory
by LHiggs
posted July 31, 2011 at 11:23am

I am sitting in a McDonalds (free wifi) watching some sort of festival building in the square in Leuven, Belgium. I am, for the most part, bored out of my mind. I have used 44% of my iPad battery today, mostly checking Facebook, clearing out my inbox, che...more

Stockholm Diamond League gives us a taste of what's to come in Daegu
by anngaff
posted July 29, 2011 at 4:17pm

Women's 800m Kenia Sinclair Kenia Sinclair was ready to go, making the rabbit work to get ahead of her and being the only woman who decided to stay with the rabbit, hitting the half-way mark at 56.86 with the rest of the field a full second behind. Sh...more

Lauren Fleshman is Ready to Race Stockholm! Guess her 5K time and she'll send you a postcard
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted July 29, 2011 at 12:20pm

Volunteers meet you at the airport and escort you to the hotel (thanks Maria!) Five weeks ago I finished 8th at the USA Championships in 15:31, and it was HARD! I’ve spent the last four weeks at 6000 feet in the Pyrennes trying to get myself in bet...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines July 28, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 28, 2011 at 12:45pm

The biggest news of the day is, in the big scheme of things, unimportant. It does not even rise to the level of triviality. It directly affects less than a hundred people in a depressed part of a depressed community in a depressed area of the nation. B...more

Kara Patterson goes to Bottropp and Monaco.
by Kara Throws Javelin
posted July 28, 2011 at 2:31am

Since I started blogging last year, I've really enjoyed reading friends' posts, writing my own as an outlet about track, and finding fun blogs to follow that have nothing to do with my day-to-day life. I've suggested that others both start and refresh bl...more

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