Sky News, like many news sites today, accepts user-contributed photos who were eye-witnesses to news.
But some people decided to have some fun with this by photoshopping bonus people into photos they submitted from this week’s London Marathon. For example, see anyone in this picture who doesn’t belong?
Answer: That’s Bill Murray’s head on the guy in the upper-left. There are quite a few other gems in teh forum thread worth checking out.
My brother-in-law, Jake, competed in the NCAA Indoor Track champs in Arkansas this past weekend. The race was relatively slow, which generally means everyone is racing for place rather than time and/or nobody wants to lead. Jake was around 5 seconds off his personal best, but that’s the nature of elite running. Congrats on going All-American again, Jake:
Stillwater’s Jake Watson earned All-America honors for the second year in a row after placing sixth in the one-mile race on Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Notre Dame senior posted a time of 4:05.51, which was just more than a second behind national champion Leonel Manzano (4:04.45) of Texas in what turned into a tightly-packed and tactical race. Sam Bair III (4:05.50) of Pittsburgh caught Watson with a lean at the tape to squeeze into fifth place by just .01.
In in local Watson running, Carly ran a personal best at the Human Race on Sunday with a 33:27 8K.
I tried giving credit to her sampling of the Plate of Bacon the night before but she seems to believe her consistent training has more to do with her success. All I know is that I’d track down some bacon before my next big race if I was her.
Funny how Kirk found out about this before I did, being Luke’s brother-in-law and all. No, I’m not bitter.
For all you hardcore running geeks out there, who can’t get enough running talk, check out The Lead Pack blog, including stuff by their latest author, Luke Watson.
For those of you who like to follow just Luke’s writing on that blog, head over here to create a custom RSS feed URL for Luke’s posts.
This isn’t writing on how to run your first 5K. It focuses on how to train to run very very fast.
Back to Kirk, man that guy is seeing red after stumbling upon a bunch of Badger fans - including Bucky - at Sally’s last weekend.
But when a machine breaks, a machine gets fixed. When an athlete’s stomach muscles have partially ripped from her pelvis, when the muscles that run down the insides of her thighs are so tight they, too, are yanking at her pelvis … something’s got to give.
The MRIs were clear. Tollefson’s midsection was a mess. But it wasn’t time to call it quits. Not yet.
It’s great to see MinnPost cover running. Especially now that the Pioneer Press has pulled back on their coverage.
Malcolm Gladwell riffs on comments in Sports Illustrated by Alberto Salazar where Salazar theorizes that Kenya’s dominance in distance running is largely due to the massive numbers of kids running big miles at an early age.
We’ve always known that running is culturally important in Kenya, in a way it isn’t anywhere else in the world. But these are staggering numbers. A million 10 to 17 year olds running 10 to 12 miles a day? I’m guessing the United States doesn’t have more than 5,000 or so boys in that age bracket logging that kind of mileage. 70 miles a week is an enormous amount of running–even for an adult. I ran middle distance at a nationally competitive level as a teenager, and never got close to 70 miles a week.
The numbers game makes sense to me. While there may be some genetic advantages for distance running associated with being Kenyan, it still takes a tremendous amount of training to reach international dominance. That’s where the numbers game comes into play.
I can’t say that I’ve ever tried running barefoot on ice, so I may be entirely of base with this statement: I think this record is pretty soft:
The fastest time to run 100 m (328 ft) barefoot on ice is 17.35 sec set by Nico Surings (Netherlands) at the Ijssportcentrum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on December 8, 2006.
High school boys can go sub-11 seconds wearing spikes on a track. Does taking away the shoes and throwing in some ice justify the 6+ second difference?
I received a text message a few minutes ago from Jim Dalby asking if I had heard about what happened to Ryan Shay. At that point, I had not, and assumed Ryan had just qualified for the 2008 Olympic games. Sadly, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Ryan collapsed early in the race and died.
Ryan Shay, 28, was a college roommate of my brother-in-law Luke Watson at Notre Dame and one of America’s elite marathon runners.
This sort of thing shouldn’t happen. He was obviously in incredible shape and at 5 1/2 miles into a marathon, would have been under only minimal physical stress.
Find out more about Shay’s running career on the USTAF site.
Nathan was right. This is an awesome marathon course. I was still putting my post race bag in the delivery truck when the gun went off.
Running down Constitution Avenue past the Washingtom Memorial was my favorite part.
The wheels came off passing the Pentagon between 23-25. Pride alone made my legs shuffle the last 1.2 miles to the finish.
My legs have never hurt this much post race.
The most emotional part of the race was reading the signs of inspiration on the backs of racers. While climbing at mile 2, I followed a woman who’s sign said she was running for her husband who was killed in Iraq. I saw way too many of those signs on runners.
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