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Your Morning Track & Field Headlines July 27, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 27, 2011 at 1:53pm

What happened yesterday… Marathon world record holder* Geoffrey Mutai (Kenya) won the Giro Podistico Internazionale di Castelbuono in Sicily. It’s the oldest road race in Europe and is for pros only, running loops of a difficult course around the to...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines July 26, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 26, 2011 at 12:45pm

The big news today is that Allyson Felix has made her decision and she’s going to try the 200 meter / 400 meter double at the World Championships. She is also expected to be on both relays as well. Is this an overreach? Maybe. More than anything els...more

Long Jumper Brianna Glenn's Time in Italy
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted July 25, 2011 at 8:41pm

I've been a busy gal. In a period of eight days, I competed four times and three of those were over five days. Is that a recipe for peak performances and stellar conditions? Probably not. But I have been down that road this season, where you carefully...more

Monaco Diamond League: An Analysis
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 24, 2011 at 12:07pm

My event-by-event rundown of Friday’s Diamond League meet, and what it all means… There’s a lot here, so you can jump around if you want. Men’s events: 100 / 800 / 1500 / Steeple / 5k / 400H / PV / TJ / SP Women’s events: 200 / 400 / 1500 / 100...more

Alice Coachman: First Black Woman To Win Gold
by Black Women in Sports
posted July 22, 2011 at 4:48pm

In 1948, Alice Coachman became the first African American to win a gold medal in the Olympics. It had been a long and difficult road to success. Alice was born in 1923 in Albany, Georgia. She was one of ten children and had a difficult childhood. She stru...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines July 22, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 22, 2011 at 3:22pm

What’s on today… The Herculis, the next stop on the IAAF Diamond League circuit, takes place today at Monaco’s Stade Louis II. Meet website Schedule and start lists Web coverage: UniversalSports.com (USA, $2,99) and CBC.ca/Sports (Canada, free) fro...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines July 20, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 20, 2011 at 2:35pm

< p>The big news yesterday was that Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee Paralympic star known as the “Blade Runner”, ran 45.07 to get under the IAAF ‘A’ qualifying mark for the World Championships as well as next year’s Olympics, and is expe...more

“Welcome to the F___ing 5k, Love”
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted July 18, 2011 at 6:46am

Oh (rapid breath) my (rapid breath) uhhhh (rapid breath) aaaayyyyeee… Ouch. Two sets done out of three and I’m hunched over, moaning like Meg Ryan in “When Harry Met Sally.” Good thing there are only other professionals on the track; civilians...more

Not Your Average Track Fan: The Journey
by shonnese
posted July 16, 2011 at 5:05pm

I’m a track addict, and it's a good thing!...more

Joanna Hayes on achieving the dream and what her daughter's world will be like
by anngaff
posted July 16, 2011 at 2:31pm

Joanna Hayes shocked everyone but herself when she won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens in the 100m hurdles, setting an Olympic record of 12.37. At the 2011 Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year banquet in Hollywood, California, she talked about bel...more

Ask Lauren Fleshman: Opposite Day: I ask the question and you answer (please)
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted July 16, 2011 at 12:31pm

Q: Dear Readers of ALF, I’ve been having a problem, on and off, throughout the past 12 years of my running career, and its pissing me off so I want to submit to the running community for some insight. Since I was 17, I’ve been getting stomach cra...more

Statistical Dominance in Track & Field: the Women
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 16, 2011 at 12:02pm

The other day I posted an analysis of Asafa Powell’s statistical dominance in terms of quantity of high-level performance. He is the most prolific sprinter in terms of sub-10.00 clockings, now sitting at 71. In order to make some kind of comparison,...more

Let's Hear it for the Girls: 2011 Gatorade High School Female Athletes of the Year
by anngaff
posted July 15, 2011 at 3:52pm

LOS ANGELES (July 12, 2011) - Some of the biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles Tuesday night as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the ninth annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year a...more

Your Morning Track & Field Headlines July 15, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 15, 2011 at 2:50pm

What’s on this weekend… The Kenyan Championships and World Championships Trials continue today and tomorrow at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi. IAAF Day 1 report The European Athletics U23 Championships continue today through Sunday at Ostrava’s Městsk�...more

Kara Patterson's Paris Areva Meeting Report: Mixed Feelings
by Kara Throws Javelin
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:33am

I'm embarrassed, discouraged and in awe all at the same time. I guess the emotion of being "in awe" during a competition isn't the most productive, but witnessing (and being a small part of) last Friday's Paris Areva Meeting was cool (World Lead by Chris...more

Brianna Glenn: Coincidences...
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:23am

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. I believe that. Sometimes things happen that are just a little to uncanny to be mere chance. I reckon that God is up there setting things in motion and hoping that we are smart enough to see His hand in ...more

Ask Lauren Fleshman: How to Avoid Jetlag as an Athlete (more like minimize it).
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted July 15, 2011 at 9:29am

Q: Hi Lauren, Do you have any tips on handling running with jet lag – both heading out and returning home? How do you manage training when you are traveling – either domestically or internationally? On top of that, what country have you not yet g...more

Lauren Fleshman: Time Change Adaptations, and an Inspired Track Session
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted July 14, 2011 at 1:03pm

There is an overly simplistic model for how long it takes to fully adapt to a time change: one day for every one hour of time difference. I have a general distrust for anything that prescriptive, especially when it tells me something I don’t want to h...more

Birmingham Diamond League: My Analysis
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 13, 2011 at 4:37pm

Here’s my event-by-event rundown of what happened at Sunday’s Diamond League meet in Birmingham, and what it all means. This time I’m going in reverse order of the meet schedule. (Video courtesy of Universal Sports.) Men’s 100 meters – Asafa ...more

Paris Diamond League: My Analysis
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 10, 2011 at 12:18am

There’s always a lot of post-meet analysis any time you have a Diamond League meet or other similar high-level competition. I’ll throw my two cents into the ring as well, as the Monday Morning Decathlete is going into hiatus. The absolute best break...more

Brianna Glenn: Unintentional Planking
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted July 8, 2011 at 11:03pm

It's all over social media as the newest and latest fad. I haven't tried it yet because at this age, keeping up with fads can be tiresome work. If you aren't even up to my coolness level, and don't have any idea about what I'm taking about, here is the ...more

Mid-Season Track & Field Athlete of the Year Report: Women
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 8, 2011 at 9:03am

Last week I took a look at how my spreadsheets ranked the top ten athletes in men’s track and field. Today I’ll look at the women. My points system rewards competing often and at a high level against the best competition. Going undefeated isn’t a...more

Today's Track and Field Headlines
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 6, 2011 at 10:52pm

The big news of the day is the announcement of the USA’s relay pools for the World Championships. Notable by his self-imposed absence is Tyson Gay. Also notable is Allyson Felix’s presence in both the 4×100 and 4×400 pools. What happened yesterda...more

Turmoil in the Tennessee track and field program
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted July 6, 2011 at 9:44pm

The Tennessee track and field program is one of the most storied in all of college track. In fact, through the 90s and a good part of the 80s, Knoxville was arguably a more important place in the scheme of things than Eugene. Besides the Volunteers’...more

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