Racing: Americans score top-20 finishes at world cross-country championships

EDINBURGH, GBR - Alex Gits finished 13th in the junior women’s race while Emily Brown was 18th and Jorge Torres finished 19th in the senior men’s race to lead Team USA at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships Sunday at Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park.
Gits, a freshman at Stanford Universityled the Team USA junior women with [...]

Training: Picking the right running socks

Did you know that socks are a key piece of your running equipment? Sometimes an after-thought, a lot of runners throw on just “whatever” socks are in their drawer without even thinking about it. But your socks act as essential protection for the skin on your feet, which turns out to be a pretty important [...]

Races: ING Georgia Marathon year two in the books despite cold weather, storm damage

ATLANTA — The ING Georgia marathon made it through its second running yesterday without major incidents, although there were some fairly wonky things that went on: last year’s winner dropped from the full to the half marathon during the race to take the win in the half; one of the top two women takes the [...]

TV: ING Georgia Marathon Television Broadcast Information

UPDATE: For post-race coverage, click here.
The ING Georgia Marathon will be televised in the Atlanta area on 11Alive (WXIA-TV) television as follows:
Live Coverage Sunday March 30th from 7:00AM to 10:30AM.
To visit the 11Alive’s marathon coverage web-site, click here.
For a related pre-race story on the ING Georgia Marathon, click here.
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Races: ING Georgia Marathon goes on after storm damage; tries to put 2007 behind it

ATLANTA– One year ago, the inaugural ING Georgia Marathon kicked off as one of the largest debut marathons in the United States. However, the great promise for this race was spoiled by aid stations left dry and cupless and a heat wave the left runners wilting.
Running forums on the Internet buzzed with the anger [...]

Racing: Webb to run Carlsbad 5000 in pre-Olympic tune-up

CARLSBAD, Calif., (March 27, 200 — After breaking Steve Scott’s quarter-century old American mile record last summer in Brasschaat, Belgium, 25-year-old Alan Webb will have an opportunity to take down San Diego native Marc Davis’ 1996 American road 5k record of 13:24, also set at the Carlsbad 5000. Webb has chosen to open his [...]

Training: what is the impact of smoking on runners?

Here’s another really interesting question sent in by a reader:
18 months ago at 35 years old I decided to start marathon running for health and so as to cut down wine drinking and quite smoking.
However, I never managed to quit but have made great progress while smoking 20 cigarettes a day. . . and I [...]

Training: five reasons for teen runners to run on a track team

I received a really interesting e-mail the other day that read as follows:
My 14 year old son has been running 10ks, 5 ks, 11 mile trail runs and is training for a half marathon that we will be running together.
I am encouraging him to join the track team at school for the benefits of the [...]