http://therunning.com/alabama.php State Feed en-us PHP/5.2.6 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8775 Edinburgh, UK - Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, the 2007 World and 2008 Olympic 5000m silver medallist, will be under serious pressure when attempting to regain the BUPA Great Edinburgh International Cross Country title at the beginning of the New Year. 2008-12-04 08:43:13 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8774 Maria Mutola of Mozambique and Lamine Diack of Senegal will be inducted into the Africa Sports Hall of Fame on 20 December. 2008-12-04 08:38:06 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8773 World record-holder Paula Radcliffe will return to the London Marathon next year in a bid to win the event for a fourth time. 2008-12-03 08:32:39 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8772 Paula Radcliffe will be up against the top three finishers at the Beijing Games, including gold medallist Constantina Dita, when she chases a fourth Flora London Marathon win. 2008-12-03 08:31:22 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8767 Kenya's elite runners must be consistent if the country is to win back individual titles at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Jordan next March.Athletics Kenya secretary David Okeyo on Tuesday reinforced his call for the seasoned runners to honour local cross country meetings, saying there is still time for them to make up in the build-up to the March 24 global competition in Amman. 2008-12-03 08:21:22 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8762 Paula Radcliffe will line up against five of the first six finishers at the Olympic Games when she chases a fourth win in next year's Flora London Marathon. 2008-12-02 08:29:19 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8761 Paula Radcliffe will have to beat one of the strongest fields ever assembled if she is to claim a fourth London marathon victory in next year's race. 2008-12-02 08:29:09 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8760 World record-holder Paula Radcliffe will return to the London Marathon next year in a bid to win the event for a fourth time. 2008-12-02 08:26:57 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8759 Track and field was dead, make no mistake about that. This was during the first week of the Olympics last summer in Beijing. Michael Phelps was winning a gold medal and setting a world record every morning in China (every night in the U.S.) and transforming the Games into his own personal mini-series. TV ratings raced upward and the rest of the events were dwarfed like some sort of worldwide jayvee game. ( Usain Bolt ) 2008-12-02 08:24:53 http://therunning.com/comments.php?article_id=8758 In the marathon, where Haile Gebrselassie holds the men's record of 2:03:59, Denny's study says that time can be lowered by more than three minutes to 2:00:47. According to the research, the women's record of 2:15:25 set by Paula Radcliffe could be trimmed to 2:14:97."Predicted maximum speeds for women are 9.3 percent to 13.4 percent slower than those for men," Denny writes. "The present gender gap between men and women will never be closed between 100 meters and the marathon." 2008-12-02 08:22:05