TFS News Briefs: 3/19/08
Posted March 19th, 2008 at 3:23 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics, TFS News Briefs
Blue Collar High School Runner
Eugene, Oregon’s Register-Guard has a profile of high school speedster Luke Puskedra who describes himself as a blue-collar runner. Puskedra, who has signed a letter of intent to run at Oregon, has the fastest indoor mile time of 2008 for a high schooler, having run a 4:08.77.
Read more at: [Register-Guard]
Spotlight On MarathonWeb.com
New York’s Star Gazette features MarathonGuide.com in an article that covers a range of statistics found on the site including the average 
men’s time for a marathon (4:29:52), average women;s time (4:59:28) and the % of runners who broke 3 hours in 2007 (only 1.7%).
Read more at: [Star Gazette]
Carolina Klüft Will Not Defend Her Olympic Heptathlon Title
In an expected move, Carolina Klüft announced that she will not defend her Olympic Heptathlon title from Athens. Instead, she will focus on the jumps in Beijing.
Read more at: [IAAF]
Sanya Richards’ Blog Entry on IAAF
In her new blog entry for IAAF, Sanya Richards discusses her experience as a live blogger at the Valencia indoor championships, her trip to Phoenix to watch fiancé Arron Ross’ victory in the Super Bowl and her training so far in 2008.
Read more at: [IAAF]
Irish Priest Trains the Kenyan World Beaters
Brother Colm O’Connell discusses his experience as the coach for 30 of some of the world’s fastest runners, the Kenyans.
Read more at: [IHT]
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Tags: carolina kluft, colm oconnell, heptathlon, high school mile, high school track, kenyan track coack, long jump, luke puskedra, marathon statistics, marathon web, olympic heptathlon, sanya richards, triple jump
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