Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Sami Jibril Interview
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Toronto, Ontario’s Sami Jibril is one of Canada’s, up-and-coming distance runners. He started out competing in modest fashion during high school and was a relatively unknown entity on the Canadian racing scene until...
Guelph, Ontario Athletes Eyeing Big Goals This Spring
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Guelph, Ontario based athletes, as members of the Speed River Track and Field Club as well as the University of Guelph Gryphons will be busy this spring season looking to race well at...
Patrick Makau Video – Preparing for Boston
Patrick Makau, one of the fastest men in the world over the marathon distance shares his insights about training for the Boston Marathon. He should know, having run as fast as 2:03:38! See his Athletics Illustrated interview here.
Thomas Riva Interview
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Thomas Riva, a top-level athlete on the national level in the CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) is entering his final season of outdoor track with the University of Victoria Vikes. He had a strong...
Rachel Francois Interview
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Rachel Francois, originally from Edmonton, Alberta, is one of the University of Victoria Vikes' top performers in many years. She specializes primarily in the 800m distance run, however, started more as a sprinter...
Daniel Wanjiru Wins as Three Run Sub One Hour in Prague
Daniel Wanjiru stormed to a first major career win, when he took the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon. The 22 year-old Kenyan clocked a personal best of 59:51 with two other runners achieving times inside the hour mark. Wilfred Murgor...
Video: Peter Kirui – Sportismo Prague Half Marathon
Petre Kirui interview Prague halfmarathon from 4Elements on Vimeo.
Leonard Komon targets world leading time in Prague
Leonard Komon is ready to produce something special at the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon. The Kenyan, who is the world record holder at 10 and 15 k, will run only his second race at the distance on Saturday. Featuring...
Prize money of US$280,000 – IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015
See below, the women's and men's preview links of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships taking place this weekend in Guiyang, China - on March 28th. The course is at approximately 4500 feet of elevation or around 1400 metres....
Refined Sugar: A Performance Killer
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As I understand it and because I may have made this up, for us long-distance runners, each pound that we are over our optimum weight, we are penalised two seconds per-mile per-pound when...