Training: Should I run one or two 20 milers before my first marathon?

One of my athletes training for the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon in Anchorage wrote to me today asking the following question:
Our training program has more time than some other programs and I see that we have the opportunity to run 20 miles twice to get ready for the race. Do we really need to run [...]

Question: How old do you have to be to enter an Ironman?

A reader named Jamie from the United Kingdom wrote in asking what you might think would be an easy question: how old do you have to be to enter an Ironman triathlon?
The answer was a little harder to find than I thought. I spent some time digging through Internet sites, but I didn’t immediately [...]

Training: the first-time marathon runner 20-miler mental anguish

It’s always great to see another group of marathon runners graduate from my program by finishing their first marathons. But before getting to graduation day, they have to make it through their first 20 mile run. One of my groups — runners training for the upcoming Rock N Roll Marathon in San Diego — went [...]

Racing: Ryan Hall and Deena Kastor to compete in BolderBOULDER race

BOULDER, Colo. — U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials champions Ryan Hall and Deena Kastor will lead the men’s and women’s American teams in an International Team Challenge at the 30th DICK’S Sporting Goods BolderBOULDER on Monday, May 26, 2008
Over the last six Challenges, the U.S. women have had good success with four team titles (2002, ‘03, [...]

Racing: Wanjiru heads for Japan to prepare for the Olympics

NAIROBI, May 7 (Xinhua) — World half-marathon record holder Sammy Wanjiru is expected to leave Kenya next week for Japan where he will start preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games. Wanjiru trains in Japan with Coach coach Francis Kamau and last year won the presigious Fukuoka Marathon in his debut at the distance.
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BBC video clip from the 2008 Belfast Marathon

This weekend’s Belfast Marathon drew 15,000 runners and was won by Kenya’s John Mutai in 2:16:31.
The women’s race was won Ethopia’s Marashet Jumma - broke the course record with a time of two hours, 39 minutes and 22 seconds.
The BBC has a short video clip of coverage from the event that you might find [...]

Running: Alicia Shay profiled in USA Today

Alicia Shay, widow of late marathon-runner Ryan Shay, is working hard to move forward with her life, according to lengthy article about her in USA Today. Alicia, who finished fifth in the 10,000M run in the 2004 US Olympic Trials is attempting to qualify for the Beijing Olympics in the 10,000M.
Quoted in the article, Alicia [...]

News: Marathon runner catches thief, does us runners proud

Here’s a story from St. Paul, in which one of our marathon running brethren used his running skills to catch a thief. Nice work. The article comes from WCCO TV.
ST. PAUL (WCCO) ― A hospital worker in St. Paul said he wasn’t going to let a bad guy get away with stealing from a [...]