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, [...]

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 [...]

Selected Photos from the 2008 US Women’s Olympic Trials

Deena Kastor

Originally uploaded by Coach Joe English

Here are a selection of images from the US Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials in Boston on April 20th 2008.
For a slide show of the photos, click here to go to Flickr.
For post-race coverage, click here.
All photos copyright Joe English, [...]

Racing: Deena Kastor wins US Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials

BOSTON — Deena Kastor displayed all the poise of her Olympic medalist status today, storming from behind to win the US Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials. Kastor allowed Magdalena Lewy Boulet to run at the front of the race for nearly 24 miles before she blew past her coming into the closing miles of the course.
The [...]

Body in Focus: TJ Ford on the agony of side stiches

Editor’s note: We’ve looked at the issue of side aches or side stitches before, but today Contributing Writer TJ Ford takes a look at side stitches for a different perspective. Although there is much debate about the causes of the problem, one thing’s for sure: a lot of runners get them. If you suffer [...]

Join us for Boston Marathon week!

With the London Marathon behind us, we now move on to the most exciting marathon in the United States — the Boston Marathon. The marathon is coming up on Monday, April 21st.
And this year, we get the added bonus of the US Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials on Sunday as well. We’ll get to see the [...]