“Pain is only temporary,
Pride is forever,
Pain passes with time and Time passes,
therefore Pain is just a strain on the Brain without Refrain,
and that’s why Cross Country runners are Insane.”
- a t-shirt
“Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.”
- Tom Fleming’s Boston Marathon sign
“How you respond to the challenge in the second half of the race will determine what you become after the race, whether you are a winner or a loser.”
- Anonymous
“People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.”
- Dr. George Sheehan
“There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run….you are not running for some future reward - the real reward is now!”
- Fred Rohe, author of The Zen of Running
“I have no control over how fast my opposition can run. It’s not like I can tackle them. All I can do is work harder. Smarter. Train when my opposition doesn’t. In blood-chilling temperatures. Rain. Sleet. Wind.”
- Unknown
“All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.”
- Vince Lombardi
Record breaking Olympians Sir Steve Redgrave and Michael Johnson took time out from the 2008 Commercialbank Qatar Masters, Presented by Dolphin Energy, …
The women’s 400 makes for good theatre. The world’s top ranked women in 400-meters, Sanya Richards finished fourth last year, and failed to qualify for the U.S. team to compete in the world championships in Osaka last year.
This year there are question marks and doubts about whether Richards can qualify for the U.S. team […]
All 400 meter roads lead to Waco, Texas, three runners from Baylor University made it to the 400-meter finals Saturday night in Hayward Field.
Jeremy Wariner said, “I came to qualify and get a preferred lane for the finals tomorrow. LaShawn [Merritt] and I were not trying to kill each other. Making the […]
Hazel Clark, Alice Schmidt and Nicole Teter made the U.S. Olympic Team today in the women’s 800-meter final of the trials.
There were 12 women in the race, but Clark navigated her way to the lead immediately. She flew by the 200-meter mark in 26.6 seconds for a 56.89 first lap. Clark finished in 1:59.82, followed […]
Who will get to run in the first-ever Olympic women’s 3000-meter Steeplechase? Eight women are one step closer to achieving that dream today in the preliminary race of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
The first heat involved Nicole Bush and Kathryn Andersen racing side by side the entire time. In the end it was Bush with […]
The women’s javelin competition saw University of Oregon junior throw 185 feet, one inch but it wasn’t far enough. It was good enough for third place but did not reach the Olympic A standard meaning she will not make the U.S. Olympic team.
In a rule change for this Olympics, athletes have to make the […]
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The final events on the fourth day of the US Olympic Trials are the second day of the decathlon, the women’s javelin throw and 800 meters, and the men’s 800 and 5000 meters.
In the decathlon things are generally going according to form, with Bryan […]
The men’s 5000m features several potential Beijing medalists and is one of the most wide-open events of the 2008 US Olympic Trials. Again the A standard will be in play, as seven finalists have run 13:21.50 or better (Tegenkamp, Solinsky, Asmeron, Lagat, Vaughn, Dobson, Riley) in the qualifying window. The US Olympic team […]
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Tyson Gay put together the best race the world has ever witnessed in 9.68. The wind-aided time (+4.1) still makes it the fastest a human has covered 100-meters.
Afterwards Gay said, “I just stayed relaxed and ran through the line because I […]
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Six more athletes made the Olympic team Sunday in the men’s and women’s 400-meter hurdle finals of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials.
In the women’s race, Tiffany Ross-Williams finished first with a time of 54.03 seconds. Virginia Tech star Queen Harrison, was second with 54.60, after she was the […]
Sanya Richards, America’s dominating 400m medal threat, continued on the road to Beijing by running the fastest time (51.08) in today’s women’s 400m quaterfinals. In addition to Richards, who easily won the third heat, Mary Wineberg, Natasha Hastings and Dee Dee Trotter all won their respective heats.
After the race, Richards remarked: “I was so […]
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