Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Martin Fagan Interview
© Copyright – 2009 – Athletics Illustrated
Martin Fagan broke the Irish half-marathon record on Saturday, March 14th., finishing in 60:57. He was racing the Fortis City Pier City Half Marathon in The Hague, Netherlands. Martin bettered the 21-year-old national...
Antonio Cabral Interview
© Copyright – 2011 – Athletics Illustrated
Athletics coach, Antonio Cabral of Lisbon, Portugal may best be known for his distance running method that at first glance harkens back to the 1950s and that of legendary coach, Mihaly Igloi however,...
The Constantina Dita interview
© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated
Constantina Dita grew up on a farm surrounded by hills and the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. She would spend much time outside running for fun, chasing livestock, being free during the Nicolae Ceausescu communist...
Jonathan Brown Interview (part 2)
© Copyright - 2009 - Athletics Illustrated
In Leicestershire, England, Loughborough University’s Director of Athletics George Gandy, recently received an honorary doctorate for outstanding services to their athletics program. His long tenure started in the early 1970s.
Recently Gandy’s athlete...
Jonathan Brown interview (part 1)
© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated
Should you be fortunate enough to walk onto the track and witness, up-close, a 27:18 10,000-metre runner put out 10 near-perfect and even 1km repeats off of 60” rest (not sure how fast...
Jonathan Wyatt interview: Fast running, fast cars and not very fast sheep
© Copyright – 2008 – Athletics Illustrated
Some things that exist in this universe we accept and expect just as they are, like the daily ebb and flow of ocean tides, the changing of the seasons and the proverbial pedestals...
Alex Genest Interview
© Copyright - 2009 - Athletics Illustrated
Alex Genest who happens to be the Canadian Junior record holder in the 3000 meter steeplechase will be moving to Guelph, Ontario this spring, to continue his studies in Human Nutrition at the...
Dylan Haight Interview
© Copyright – 2010 - Athletics Illustrated
Dylan Haight is a rising star who is based in Victoria, BC and attending Oak Bay High School. He is helping to keep the successful history of Oak Bay’s athletics program in a...
The Malindi Elmore interview: Youth sports, Kelowna and the Olympics
© Copyright - 2010 - Athletics Illustrated
Stanford University alumna, Malindi Elmore, from Kelowna, British Columbia, grew up active and very involved in many sports. Early on her primary game was soccer, however, she went on to win three provincial...
Kyle Boorsma Interview
© Copyright – 2010 – Athletics Illustrated
Guelph, Ontario’s Kyle Boorsma is the 2011 Canadian Inter-university Sport (CIS) Cross Country Champion. Boorsma led his team, the Guelph Gryphons to their fifth consecutive national cross-country title on Saturday, November 13, 2011...