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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 09:29pm

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:13pm

Though I may not know best about everything (don't tell my husband), being mom has taught me a few things about myself, and my running, in particular. Actually, it’s more about my running and how I... Runner?s World contributor Lisa Jhung blogs about the struggles, the joys, and the?um?bladder issues of staying active while pregnant. Follow her here as she strives to keep both her baby[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:10pm

I have been running for about 5 months and had gotten up to running five days a week for an approximate total of 20. Lately, I have hit a major slump. I can only run about a mile and a... Are you new to running, or just thinking about taking it up? If so, you're in the right place. From technique to shoes to nutrition and more, no topic is too trivial for our expert panel. Send a question of[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:13am

December is a quiet month for relays, but there are a couple on tap for this weekend, one of which I have the good fortune to be running in! Stay tuned for a race report. Civil War Relay High off a fantastic football game last night between the Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers, the folks running this weekend’s Civil War Relay should have plenty of energy to burn.  This 50 mile [...]

Tags: News

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 08:40am

Flew to GA on Tuesday and was greeted with lots of rain on Wednesday. Short run in the afternoon, and Thursday 7.3 miles.  Looking forward to some runs on the Riverwalk!

Tags: easy

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 03:08am

by Brett LarnerKebede vs. Mogusu - click for preview videoUpdate 12/5: 2005 World Championships bronze medalist and 2004 Fukuoka winner Tsuyoshi Ogata (Team Chugoku Denryoku) has withdrawn due to illness.The 63rd Fukuoka International Marathon takes place this Sunday, Dec. 6. With the puzzling and almost total absence of elite Japanese runners this year the focus is rightfully on the foreign field[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 03:08am

by Brett LarnerKebede vs. Mogusu - click for preview videoThe 63rd Fukuoka International Marathon takes place this Sunday, Dec. 6. With the puzzling and almost total absence of elite Japanese runners this year the focus is rightfully on the elite field, and the Japanese media are setting up the race as a two-man show. In the one corner, Beijing Olympics bronze medalist Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia) re[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:43pm

SPIKES magazine, Autumn 2009 cover, Illustration of Philips Idowu, Berlin gold medalist, triple jump In my mind, SPIKES is the future of athletics media. Less than two years old, SPIKES magazine is the work of IAAF and the Haymarket Network in the UK. Haymarket is one of most creative custom publishing houses in the UK, with clients such as top performance auto companies, etc. The IAAF hired Haym[...]

Tags: IAAF, spikes, Interviews, David H, Hall, Haymarket Publishing, Philip Idowu

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 03:16pm

I have long thought that calling a 13.1 mile race a ‘half’ was a great disservice to the distance. This is mostly because I enjoy running half marathons and intend to run many more of them. The same cannot be said for the full marathon. I did not enjoy it, and I do not intend to run many more of them... that’s what I meant when I said that the same cannot be said for the full mar[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:29am

Over the summer I took two knitting classes. One to learn how to make a lacy ishbel scarf thingy and then one to learn how to do fair isle colorwork stuff. For the later my friend Jean and I took a class to make a Christmas stocking. The big plan was to make one for Lucy, Jason and myself but things got put down and so only Lucy will get one this year.Here are some pictures of the Ishbel: And of t[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:32am

Last night as I was sitting on the couch I was again hit with some lower abdomen pain type things. I looked in the pregnancy books I have and these could be a sign of early labor. So that's cool. I don't know why I only get them at one time of the day when sitting in one position but there they are. Jason kept his hand on my belly and said he thought it was getting harder as I would get [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:44am

Day 380 chronicling a joggling streak which will last at least 1001 days in a row. Summary: I’m in “take it easy” mode. The Philadelphia marathon is over and there aren’t any real races coming up for a while. I may do the Frozen Otter 32 miler in January so I’ll soon have to start doing some training for that. Not sure how much of it I&#8217[...]

Tags: Training Log, joggling streak, running streak

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:47pm

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/region/kanto/saitama/091029/stm0910291258004-n1.htmtranslated and edited by Brett LarnerThe new man at the Saitama Prefectural Govenment offices since April wears a different mask when he's away from work: that of a top-level runner. Having already scaled the heights of one of Japanese racing's peaks, the Hakone Ekiden, Yuki Kawauchi, 22, will now take on its Eve[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 09:13pm

Chelsea's Didier Drogba and U2's Bono, at the Lace Up, Save Lives launch for World AIDS Day, photo courtesy of Nike HIV/AIDS kills thousands of 15-24 year old boys and girls, young men and women, in Sub-Saharan Africa each day. That is a fact. Buying Red shoe laces, which were available December 1, are a way of supporting the providing of medication for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria a[...]

Tags: News, (RED)tm, Bono, Inc, Lace Up, Save Lives

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 05:15pm

Hi Coach Jenny. I got a cold this week and I'm not sure whether I should run or not. I'm new to the exercising world and don't want to lose my fitness. I've been able to work up to running... ASK COACH JENNY! Coach Jenny Hadfield is the co-author of the best selling Marathoning for Mortals and the newly released Running for Mortals. She is a nationally recognized speaker, writ[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 04:08pm

K-SWISS continues on a roll, picking up the LA marathon, with their major victories on the triathlon circuit, and now their first running store in U.S.:

Tags: News, Road Racing

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 03:13pm

As The North Face continues to build into a launch in running, they are picking up key assets for branding TNF in ultrarunning heritage...

Tags: Road Racing, Hal Koerner, The North Face, The North Face Athlete Team, Ultrarunning

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 02:43pm

Thanks to the hard work of Runnerspace.com, you will be able to watch the NXN Live, on Saturday, December 5, 2009. Make sure you use the link: http://runningnetwork.com/RNW/index.php/news/youth/nxn Also note that RBR will be twittering the events LIVE, from Portland, Oregon on Saturday. (You can also watch our twittering on twitter.com/americantf, twitter.com/atfathletesonly, twitter.com/morunand[...]

Tags: Cross Country, Nike Cross Nationals 2009, NXN

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 02:05pm

This is my final week before the Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, the time that would typically be a taper week.  While tapering does have the power to make people go a little mad with the reduced mileage and extra time lounging around, my taper isn’t going how I had planned. I ran on Sunday, my final longish run before the race.  I felt a little niggl[...]

Tags: Training

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 09:07am

Last night I was sitting on the couch and Lucy was doing her usual night time dance routine and all of a sudden I was all, "WHOA, ouch."I was thinking this is it. This is labor. It's going to happen tonight. Yeah. No. Not so much labor I guess as her just moving around and hitting me in some bad places that caused a lot of pain. What the hell, how am I supposed to know what a contra[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 12:44am

While I’ve seen some studies that suggest running marathons can damage your heart (temporarily), there is lots of support that regular exercise has significant, positive health benefits. But according to this study published in the journal Circulation, physical exercise like marathon training can actually keep you younger. In the study, they analyzed the blood of endurance athletes. Sc[...]

Tags: Running, Marathon, Health, Science, longevity

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 10:57pm

http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=spo_30&k=2009120100951translated by Brett LarnerOn Dec. 1 the Meiji Seiyaku corporation announced that on Nov. 30 it had terminated its sponsorship of Bejing Olympics men's marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru (23). In November last year Wanjiru signed a lucrative one-year contract with Meiji Seiyaku to endorse the Savas sports supplement, but this year the co[...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 08:21pm

It's amazing the plans one can concoct with old girlfriends over a drinky-poo or two! Being home in Columbus not only gave me a chance to connect with family, but it also gave me a chance to be a steward of Austin and convince a couple of my high-school girlfriends to sign up for the Austin Half Marathon and run it with me!A couple of them are signed up for Spring Marathons and the Austin Ha[...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 07:22pm

Looking to connect with runners? Jenn Tran helps navigate the options and breaks it down for you John Hughes-style. Read More » Tags: training, social media, websites, reviews Related Articles Music and Athletic Performance Nike+: The Best Running Gadget. Ever. I Heard it Through (the) Racevine

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 07:11pm

Jim Elias spent the last eleven years at USA Track & Field. His roles have been CFO, Chief Operating officer, and recently, Managing Director of Business Affairs. Eleven years ago, USA Track & Field was in a world of hurt. Some had made the argument, at the time, that the easier route might have been bankruptcy. Former CEO Craig Masback's weapon to fix USATF was Jim Elias. What did[...]

Tags: News, Field, USATF, Track &amp, Doug Logan, Jim Elias

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 06:15pm

http://www.47news.jp/CN/200911/CN2009112901000236.htmltranslated by Brett LarnerAt the 2009 Shanghai Marathon on Nov. 29, invited athlete Mai Ito (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) won the women's half-marathon division in a time of 1:12:00. General division runner Hiroko Shoi (Team Nihon ChemiCon) was 2nd. Yamanashi Gakuin University graduate Kota Araki (Self-Defense Forces) was 3rd in the men's r[...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 02:11pm

2009 Berlin gold medalist, heptathlon, Jessica Ennis, and 2009 Berlin bronze medalist, 800 meters, Jenny Meadows, shopping at Jaeger Clothing, new four year sponsor of UK Athletics, photo courtesy of www.insidethegames.biz For athletics to grow, deals like UK Athletics and the iconic style of Jaeger Clothing make tremendous sense! Brilliant move by Jaeger and UK Athletics on a four year deal! Ap[...]

Tags: News, Jessica Ennis, Belinda Earl, Jenny Meadows, UK Athletics, Niels de Vos

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 01:45pm

Well. I'm not surprised but I'm no farther along than I was 2 weeks ago. Still only 1cm dilated and nothing else is happening down there. No softening, no head moving down anywhere, no effacing. I have literally had 0 contractions. I mean nothing. No braxton hicks, nothing.So. Yeah.But we have a plan now and it helps to have that at least in my head. We go back to the doctor on Friday fo[...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 12:45pm

Diagonal, originally uploaded by LeahC.