Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Alexandre Ricard and Samantha Jory win BC 10K Championships at the Cobble Hill 10K
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Alexandre Ricard and Samantha Jory won the 2025 BC 10K Championships. They also won the second race of the 2025 Vancouver Island Race Series, the Cobble Hill 10K that is run in...
Grand Slam Track announces middle-distance athletes: Hiltz, Hull, Welteji and Moraa
Grand Slam Track has focused on announcing the big names in sprint distances. And they have signed many. Now for the middle-distances and the 5000m, the shortest of the so-called distance runs.
Runners will contest the 800m and 1500m, and...
Great Britain’s Laura Muir hires coaches Steve Cram and Laura Weightman
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Great Britain's Laura Muir has hired Steve Cram and Laura Weightman has her new coaches. Muir left her long-time coach Andy Young in 2023. She was with him for 11 years, and...
Canada’s next prime minister may be, Mark Carney, a good age group marathon runner
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Canada’s Mark Carney, the favourite to win the leadership of the Federal Liberal Party of Canada, is the fastest runner in this political race. The 59-year-old is an admired economist and is highly...
BC 10K Championships: Brandon Vail and Leslie Sexton lead elite fields
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The 2025 Cobble Hill 10K and BC 10K Championships taking place Sunday, January 26 features a strong local field of Vancouver and Vancouver Island-based runners.
The top-seeded male is Brandon Vail with Speedfarm....
Ejgayehu Taye and Isaia Lasoi target record times at Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon
Ejgayehu Taye and Isaia Lasoi are lead contenders in the 2025 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon. The race happens on Saturday, February 1. Taye of Ethiopia and Lasoi of Kenya reckon that they are very fit — at world...
Shelby Houlihan to start 2025 season at Arkansas Razorback Invitational February 1
According to LetsRun.com Shelby Houlihan will return from her four-year doping suspension on February 1 at the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark.
Houlihan is scheduled to race in the 3000-metre event. The American record holder in the 1500m tested...
Competitive field set to compete at Napoli City Half Marathon 2025: Race weekend promises...
On Sunday, February 23, 2025, elite runners from across the globe will gather at the starting line of the Napoli City Half Marathon. Among them are Italian marathon national record holders Yohanes Chiappinelli and Sofiia Yaremchuk. Spectators can look...
Keely Klassic to feature record attempts by Keely Hodgkinson, Jake Wightman and Georgia Bell
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Typically when athletic events are named after a person, it is to honour their passing and the life they lived. But, you know you have made it when they name an event...
Olympic gold medallist, Selemon Barega, to make marathon debut at the Zurich Maraton de...
Ethiopian great Selemon Barega will be on the start line of the 40th Zurich Maraton de Sevilla (Spain) on February 23. The expectation for Barega's debut is high, as debuts have gone as of late.
The Olympic gold medallist...
