Sophomore Lucas Verzbicas has a chance to become a rare underclass boy’s cross country national champion.
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
It is quite common for freshman, sophomore and junior girls to win the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship. In fact, in the 30-year history of the event, fewer than half of the girls’ champions have been seniors. [...]
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Huge surprises occurred in the men’s women’s team races and in the women’s individual race.
Written by: Sean McKeon
It was a picture-perfect day Monday in Terre Haute, Ind. for the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Championships. What was not so perfect was the picture painted by race previews, my own included, as to how the races would [...]
After they were awarded as the 2009 running store of the year we caught up with the folks from Naperville Running Co. to ask how the felt and what the award meant to them!
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Some assorted photos from a fantastic day in Chicago. Our friends at PhotoRun.net offer up a great look at the masses that took part in one of the largest marathons in America.
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Liliya Shobukhova won the women’s race. This was her first time racing in Chicago and she won with a time of 2:25:56.
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What Liliya Shobukhova lacked in marathon experience she made up for with track speed. And on a day when the women were content to play a cat-and-mouse game relying on slow pace and strategy, Shobukhova was able take advantage of her strengths. In only her second race at the distance, Shobukhova won the Bank of [...]
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Sammy Wanjiru accomplished most of what he set out to do on his first trip to America. The 23-year-old reigning Olympic marathon champion, after flirting with world record pace, won the Bank of America Chicago Marathon in 2:05:41, beating the course record by one second. It was also the fastest time ever run in the [...]
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Elites predict fast times despite cold weather.
At the Bank of America Chicago Marathon elite press conference, the three favorites in both the men’s and women’s fields all talked about being fit and ready for fast times. But they also said that they’d have to see what the weather was like.
The latest forecasts today predict temperatures [...]
A new Chicago Marathon tradition keeps the city buzzing.
Take a drum line, a couple Olympic medalists, a marathon legend, the city’s newest football hero and enough cowbells to satisfy Christopher Walken—and you get a sense of the scene at Niketown Thursday as the marathon sponsor kicked off marathon weekend with a pep rally and fun [...]
Kastor will look for her second title in Chicago.
Unlike the youth found in the men’s race, the women’s race is headlined by two of the top women’s marathoners of the past decade, both beginning to near the end of their career. Reigning world marathon majors champion Irina Mikitenko of Germany and American record holder Deena [...]
