– 84-year-old Holocaust survivor Sylvia Weiner, who was the only one in her family of ten to survive the Holocaust and went on to become the first official Boston Marathon masters winner. Before she found running, she struggled with depression and nightmares, saying, “I had days when I felt I was going down-down-down,” but running helped lift her spirits.
Kenneth Mungara took down Andres Espinosa's master's WR in the marathon, Ryan Hall lost another high school record to Webb, Kodiak, Alaska pop 6,423 has had 2 sub-8:50 2 milers, Jake Riley ran a tremendous race of an unspecified distance, and two reasons why you should never quit.
Chebet and his management team have written LetsRun.com to say that the quotes which were featured as QOD yesterday were 100% fabricated by the Kenyan press. No interview took place.
LRC Stephen Sambu And Mary Wacera Win Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Sambu finished 8 seconds ahead of runner-up Jacob Riley. Other top Americans included Girma Mecheso (5th), Jared Ward (10th) and Luke Puskedra (12th). For the women, Wacera was given the same time as runner-up Cynthia Limo. Serena Burla was the top American in 6th.
*MB: Cherry Blossom 15K The course was short as it had to be changed at the last minute due to a car accident.
Recommended Read: The Race Of A Lifetime: Blog By One Of The American Super Fans At 2015 World XC The duo were treated as celebrities and had their picture taken roughly 500 times, but their cheering couldn’t stop the African domination. “As the races continued, it became clear that East Africa hadn’t come to compete. They’d come to dominate.”
A Look At The Rise Of St. Kitts And Nevis – Population 46,000 – As A Sprint Power
Good Read: Should Runners Who Have Served Drug Bans Be Welcomed At Races?
MB: Good for him: Christian Hesch says he should never be eligble for prize money again
Good Read: Mike Rowbottom Breaks Down Sergey Bubka Vs. Seb Coe For IAAF Head
Great News:Ugandan Coach Peter Wemali Faces Arrest – After 3 Girls Testify They Were Raped “Wemali is like any other person in this country and if he has committed rape, defilement and assault like these young girls are testifying we are going to have him arrested and charged,” said a police commander. “He (Wemali) lured me to his house one day and raped me. I feared to scream because there was a panga and knife in the house. He also had a pistol,” said a victim.
IOC Sets Up Whistleblowers’ Hotline For Tips On Match Fixing And Corruption In Sports Web-based hotline open to all and offers “100% anonymity.”
Jury In Boston Bombing Case Will Be Back In Court Tuesday But Sentencing Phase Of The Trial Won’t Begin Unitl April 21st Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has already been found guilty of all 30 counts against him.
Paris 2024 Bid Moves A Step Closer As City Hall Gives Backing To Olympic Bid
Tabor Stevens, the NCAA XC champ and fastest American collegiate steepler last year, got a big win, so did German Fernandez, and Michael O'Hara got four of them. More track action, coaching advice, and a chance encounter with Geoffrey Kamworor in the airport which reminded us of Paul Tergat and Moses Tanui meeting President Bush.
LRCQ&A: World Champion Chanelle Price Talks About Maturing, Last Year’s Foot Injury, And Her Plans For The 2015 Season We catch up with Price, the former HS phenom who is finally clicking with JJ Clark, after she ran a world-leading 2:00.62 last weekend at the Florida Relays in her first 800 since June 2014. Up next is a loaded 800 at the Drake Relays on April 24 and hopefully the World Relays, where Price aims to help the U.S. defend its 4 x 800 gold.
*Discuss: MB: A Q&A With Chanelle Price
LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running ShoeThe running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.
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