Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Let’s Run Previews and Interviews at Wannamaker
7 Pre-Wanamaker Mile Interviews: Shelby Houlihan Is Confident She Can Get the Collegiate Record, Lawi Lalang Wants Sub-3:50 and Much More
February 15, 2015
Manhattan, NY
By LetsRun.com
February 13, 2015
NEW YORK — For years, Millrose and the Wanamaker Mile were nearly synonymous....
Michal Kapral Interview
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Michal Kapral of Toronto, Ontario keeps a healthy grip on his balls. He spends hours holding them and tossing them about; up and down and back and forth. He teaches others to do...
Is Pot an Ethical Performance Enhancer?
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Apparently, there is a new ethics debate taking place in the ultra-marathon community about the use of marijuana (THC) as a performance enhancing drug. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) lists cannabinoids as prohibited...
Pathetic Study: Running Fast is nine times more likely to cause death
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If you strive to be wholly mediocre as a runner, read some of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology propaganda. For example their 2012 published tripe has been propagated by the...
Kenya: National Cross Country in Boycott Threat
Nairobi — Retired and current athletes led by 2008 Beijing Olympics 800m champion Wilfred Bungei have on Monday called for a boycott of the February 14 National Cross Country championships cum World Cross Country Trials if the Government does...
Dissecting Zane Robertson’s Debut Half Marathon Performance: “I was shocked to see a 2:40...
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In Zane Robertson’s dismantling of the New Zealand half-marathon record by two minutes and 25 seconds on Sunday, February 1st in the Marugame International Half Marathon, he ventured into brand new international running...
RUSSIAN DOPING: Russia Sanctions Tatyana Artyomova for Two Years
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Russian Athletics Federation interim President Leonid Khrushchev today announced that international middle-distance runner Tatyana Artyomova has earned a two-year sanction from international competition. She is the 95th Russian athlete so far in 2015...
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon to be one of SA’s first carbon neutral sport events
Press – Cape Town Marathon
The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon is to become one of the first sporting events to be declared carbon neutral in South Africa. This will be achieved through the pilot purchase of carbon credits traded on...
Justyn Knight’s Canadian Junior Indoor Mile Record
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Eighteen-year-old Justyn Knight of Vaughn, Ontario, set out to clear the four-minute mile benchmark on Saturday, January 31st in the Penn State National meet. The Syracuse University freshman accomplished what he had set...
Indoor Track: Five Canadians Perform Well on January 31st
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A quinary of Canadians ran well Saturday January 31st starting with Vaughn, Ontario’s Justyn Knight who ran a (pending) new Canadian junior record and sub-four minute indoor mile performance clocking in at 3:59.51...
