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• Back On The Bus: Respect

  • By TJ Murphy
  • Published Sep. 10, 2009
  • Updated Feb. 22, 2013 at 11:06 AM UTC

  “If I had my competitive career to run over again, I would change some of my attitudes to injuries. I would show them more respect.

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  Next Up For Ritz: World Half Marathon Championships

  • By Matt Fitzgerald
  • Published Sep. 2, 2009

  The new Big Man in American distance running hopes to hold his recent record-setting form into October. Dathan Ritzenhein is on a roll. The

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  Ritzenhein Named USATF Athlete Of The Week

  • By Sean McKeon
  • Published Sep. 2, 2009
  • Updated Sep. 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM UTC

  Not a big surprise here, but Dathan Ritzenhein, a competitor.com blogger, was named USATF Athlete Of The Week for his amazing American

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  Dathan Ritzenhein Smashes 5000m American Record!

  • By Matt Fitzgerald
  • Published Aug. 28, 2009
  • Updated Sep. 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM UTC

  Competitor Running blogger takes down Bob Kennedy’s 13-year-old standard with a 12:56.27 clocking. We’re not going to even

• Back On The Bus: Treadmill Survival 101

  • By TJ Murphy
  • Published Aug. 24, 2009
  • Updated Aug. 24, 2009 at 5:26 PM UTC

  Yesterday morning , Sunday, I woke up at 5:30am in a mild state of panic. I made coffee, apparently so that I could ratchet up the panic a

• Back On The Bus: Sort Of…

  • By TJ Murphy
  • Published Aug. 20, 2009

  OK, so I want to get back on the bus, but the bus is turning out to be a 30-year-old VW van in need of an overhaul. The illotibial band

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  Smack From The Back: Pre-Race Thoughts

  • By Race Coverage
  • Published Aug. 17, 2009
  • Updated Aug. 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM UTC

  Heads up, Buena Vista, Colorado, here we come! In just over a week 300 of us mad, crazy trail runners will toe the starting line of the

• Back On The Bus: IT Band Woes

  • By TJ Murphy
  • Published Aug. 8, 2009
  • Updated Sep. 12, 2012 at 12:56 PM UTC

  Illiotibial band syndrome is one of the more annoying running injuries you can get. It’s like having a pit bull clenched into the side of

• Back On The Bus: On Patience

  • By TJ Murphy
  • Published Jul. 22, 2009
  • Updated Sep. 12, 2012 at 12:56 PM UTC

  “You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!”-King Lear Be a distance runner long enough and you’ll rack up