Athletics Illustrated

© Copyright - 2010 - Athletics Illustrated Christopher Kelsall: Megan, your email address has ‘2012’ in it, which can only mean one thing: Olympic aspirations. What event are you looking to focus on for London qualification? Megan Brown: If you had...

 © Copyright – 2009 – Athletics Illustrated(editor's note: Updated in August 2025) The Arthur Lydiard phenomenon — A method of any other way could only be of a lesser standard. A standard of practical research yet to be matched No other endurance...

John L. Parker: Comeback Author John L. Parker Jr. took 30 years to write the sequel to his classic novel Once a Runner. Then he almost died, spending 16 days in a near-coma. He along with his fictional hero, Quenton...

© Copyright - 2010 - Athletics Illustrated Perhaps you have read John L. Parker Junior’s contribution to running culture, the quasi-fictional parable, Once a Runner – if you are a runner, inevitably you will read it. As far as running...

© Copyright - 2011 - Athletics Illustrated On the Wings of Mercury is a self–penned autobiography by Lorraine Moller. From the days when she was a world-class middle and long-distance runner, it is one of the most riveting and highly...

© Copyright – 2009 – Athletics Illustrated Paperback, 278 pages Published April 28th 2000 by Cedarwinds (first published April 2000) ISBN 0915297280 (ISBN13: 9780915297283) Anne Audain’s book, Uncommon Heart, co-written with John L. Parker Jr. (Once a Runner) is an ardent, tell-all, roller-coaster...

© Copyright – 2010 – Athletics Illustrated Chris Solinsky, a University of Wisconsin Badger alumnus and current Nike Oregon Track Club athlete (also with Kimbia Athletics), who pulled off one of the most stunning track races in US history. Becoming...

© Copyright – 2009 – Athletics Illustrated In 1968 at the age of 21, Amby Burfoot won the historic B.A.A Boston Marathon. John J. Kelley, who at that time was the most recent American to win Boston 11 years prior,...

© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated I first met Diane Cummins at the track, what are the odds? My son (then 9) and I were enjoying the Victoria International Track Classic at the University of Victoria, Centennial Stadium, May...

(C) Copyright - 2009 - Athletics Illustrated I read the book “My Life on the Run” by Bart Yasso, the Mayor of Running, for clues to its relevance to his public image as defacto race ambassador at Runner’s World Magazine....