http://therunning.com/alabama.php State Feed en-us PHP/5.2.6 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8670 For athletes who think of themselves as communing with nature, marathon runners have a tendency to leave a few (thousand) footprints behind. After all, those plastic water bottles and rubber-soles have to be discarded somewhere. Greensboro's marathon is going green. Race organizers said Tuesday the N.C. Marathon, scheduled for May 2, will have the environment in mind from ... 2008-11-19 09:42:57 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8386 The Midway cross-country team participated with the Carolina 1-A Conference in a cross-country competition on Wednesday with the Raiders men’s team finishing first and a Lady Raider topping the leader board in the women’s competition. 2008-09-18 07:27:50 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8372 Twenty-four years ago, Zola Budd and Mary Decker were involved in the most famous collision involving runners during a track and field meet. Decker was America’s sweetheart, a world champion middle-distance runner with a legitimate shot at an Olympic gold medal. Earlier that year, Budd, then 17, burst onto the scene, setting a world record in the 5,000-meter run, which she accomplished while running barefoot. 2008-09-16 08:40:06 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8322 It’s bigger than ever before, but the Asheville Citizen-Times Half Marathon and 5K race is still the hometown sporting event that welcomes all. 2008-09-11 08:17:01 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8317 At the end of the '08 Outdoor season we talked to NC State Head Coach Rollie Geiger about his career and his program. Coach Geiger has won a combined 32 ACC team championships and 19 individual ACC championships (between the men and women). 2008-09-09 11:47:49 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8311 ZAP Fitness plays a dual role as both an elite training center and a mountain retreat. What is unique about ZAP is that their elite runners depend on the recreational runners that attend their adult running camps. The ZAP Foundation, a non-profit, receives about half its funding from sponsorships and donations and the other half from the teams and running camps hosted and run by the organization 2008-09-09 11:41:15 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8202 'Today the world kind of collapsed a bit,' Shalane Flanagan's coach John Cook said by phone Tuesday from Dalian, where the training camp for the U.S. track and field team in located. 'She didn't sleep at all last night. It just came out of nowhere and she spent most of the night in the bathroom. We think it's food poisoning, but we're not sure.' 2008-08-13 09:21:37 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8096 LetsRun.com has a great review of the 2008 Paris Golden League track meet where Shannon Rowbury runs a blistering 4:00.33. 2008-07-19 07:42:11 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8082 Doping cases have claimed some of track and field's most prominent names, a portion of its popularity and, in the eyes of some, its legitimacy. Now, when an athlete does the very thing fans hope for -- runs faster or jumps higher or throws farther than anyone ever has -- the question becomes, is it real? Can we believe what we see? 2008-07-16 09:20:25 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=7969 German Fernandez breaks the National 2 mile record for the HS boys with an amazing 8:34.40 run at the Nike outdoor Nationals at Greensboro, NC 2008-06-22 12:30:59