Athletics Illustrated

© Copyright – 2011 - Athletics Illustrated Three-time Canadian national champion Mark Bomba joined Trinity Western University as the team’s endurance director in April of 2011. He was a national champion in both the 10,000 metre and half-marathon distances (in 2005)...

© Copyright – 2009 – Athletics Illustrated I remember watching Ryan Hall race the 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon and thinking that he seemed to be putting in a great effort and really just hanging on to the pace. Hall was...

© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated Phidippides, the Athenian foot-messenger left a legacy that grows greater each year and is propagated by the millions of people who now participate in marathon races all over the world. In 490 BC, Phidippides...

© Copyright - 2009 - Athletics Illustrated Keith Livingstone from New Zealand recently published a new book about an old training method, written in today’s language. He has taken the famous training method of the late and incomparable Arthur Lydiard...

© Copyright – 2010 - Athletics Illustrated Greg McMillan who operates adidas-McMillanElite in Flagstaff, Arizona — a post-collegiate training group for runners — is seeing significant returns from his athlete’s training efforts. He started the adidas-McMillanElite program nearly three years...

© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated The legend and the legacy of Arthur Lydiard is alive and well. Perhaps the method he developed over a 50 year period is more popular today than when he coached Olympians directly or...

The Rod Dixon interview by Christopher Kelsall of Athletics Illustrated

© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur, adventurer and founder of the Virgin Group of companies, is delighted to be a part of the London Marathon, so-much-so that he signed one of his business ventures, Virgin...