Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
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...
Comox Valley RV Half Marathon – Results
The sixth race in the Frontrunners Island Race Series – Comox Valley RV Half Marathon – took place yesterday. Hosted by the Comox Valley Road Runners, the Half Marathon was part of the Timex BC Road Running Series. There...
Wiebe and Marchant Prevail at Modo 8K today
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The Canada-wide, Scotiabank Canada Run Series kicked off today with the Modo 8K Spring Run Off in Vancouver’s Stanley Park under cloudy skies with mild temperatures.
Winners were Vancouver’s Kelly Wiebe who crossed the...
Wodak Looking Fit Before Her Busy Spring Racing Season
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Vancouver’s Natasha Wodak, who is one of Canada’s top distance runners, can be excused if her running goals these days are stripped down to sound bites like, “I just want to stay healthy,”...
2015 BMO St. Patrick’s Day 5K – Finisher’s Video: ALL
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High Quality Dozen challenge Honours in Prague
The Czech capital will stage one of the highest calibre half marathon races anywhere in the world on March 28: a dozen runners with personal bests under 61 minutes will be on the start list for the Sportisimo Prague...
Merritt and James to meet at Shanghai Diamond League
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IAAF Diamond League Shanghai
The world’s two greatest one-lap runners will go head-to-head for Diamond League points for the first time in 2015 at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 17 May.
World 400m champion LaShawn Merritt and Olympic champion...
Race Video: 2015 BMO St. Patrick’s Day 5K
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Full finisher's stream coming soon, check back often.
USATF Board and Steven Miller embarrass themselves by overruling popular vote – 392 –...
This past weekend in Santa Monica, the USA Track and Field board of directors reaffirmed its prior decision to nominate former USATF president Stephanie Hightower for a position on the IAAF Council, as reported by Ken Stone of this publication.
The...
