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Gay to run Worlds before surgery
Posted by TheRunning
Double world sprint champion Tyson Gay will delay surgery on his injured groin in order to compete in next month's Berlin world championships against Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt."The doctor says that I will need surgery some time, but I didn't want to take a chance getting surgery now so I have just been getting some pain pills to work on the pain," Gay told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Track & Field, Cross Country Add Two New Assistants
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Josh Langley, a former assistant track and field coach at Clemson, and Peter Watson, a former head cross country coach and assistant track coach at Auburn, have joined the University of North Carolina coaching staff, head coach Dennis Craddock announced today.
Demon Deacons Wrap-Up Day 2 of ACC Track & Field Championships (Wake Forest Sports)
Posted by TheRunning
Seven different Wake Forest track & field athletes advanced through the prelims on Friday to compete in the finals on Saturday of the 2009 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the Cobb Track & Field Facility on the campus of the University of Miami.
Flanagan splits with track coach, chases U.S. indoor record
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When Olympic bronze medalist Shalane Flanagan attempts to add to her U.S. record collection in the 5,000 meters Saturday at the Boston Indoor Games, she'll do so without John Cook.
FLANAGAN TO FACE KIPLAGAT AT WORLD'S BEST 10-K By David Monti [Article]
Posted by TheRunning
By David Monti(c) 2009 Race Results Weekly, all rights reservedThere is sure to be some fast running at the World's Best 10-K in San Juan, P.R., on Sunday, March 1, as organizers have signed both three-time IAAF world road running champion Lornah Kiplagat and Olympic bronze medalist Shalane Flanagan to this year's race. via Flotrack
Greensboro's Marathon Changes Course, Moves to High Point (WGHP Greensboro)
Posted by TheRunning
The Greensboro Marathon, which is a qualifier for the Boston Marathon, will be moved to High Point this year. The city of Greensboro is losing the marathon because the Greensboro Police Department will charge $65,000 for security. High Point Police have offered to patrol the race for free.
N.C. Marathon in Greensboro going green in 2009 (Greensboro News & Record)
Posted by TheRunning
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 ...
Midway wins men's cross country (Sampson Independent)
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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.
Zola Budd Pieterse wins Asheville Citizen-Times Half Marathon
Posted by Matt
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.
Half Marathon: a race for the masses (Asheville Citizen-Times)
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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.
Flotrack: Monday meeting with NC State's Rollie Geiger
Posted by Matt
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).
Running Times feature: Head for the Mountains of ZAP
Posted by Matt
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
Athletics Notes: Flanagan's Flow Interrupted
Posted by Matt
'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 Paris Golden League Recap - Letsrun.com
Posted by Matt
LetsRun.com has a great review of the 2008 Paris Golden League track meet where Shannon Rowbury runs a blistering 4:00.33.
Dark Days: Track and field's legitimacy is under attack (Winston-Salem Journal)
Posted by TheRunning
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 Nike Outdoor Nationals 2 mile National record video
Posted by Matt
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
Anatomy of a Record Assault
Posted by Matt
German Fernandez of Riverbank, California, breaks 29 year old national HS 2 mile record
Flotrack's Nike Outdoor Nationals race videos and interviews
Posted by Matt
Flotrack will be on site at the 2008 Nike Outdoor National Track & Field Championships held in Greensboro, NC at University of North Carolina A&T.
N.C. A&T Hosts State Games in Track & Field (WGHP Greensboro)
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Hundreds of athletes were sweating it out Sunday in the Piedmont. The North Carolina State Games held track and field events at A&T Aggie Stadium. FOX8's Melissa Painter reports.
Chris and Ashley Estwanik under pressure
Posted by Matt
Never before have the Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby men's and women's titles taken up residence in the same household. But that could all change if the talented Estwaniks have any say in the matter. Since relocating to Bermuda last year, the couple have dominated the local running scene and are firmly on course to achieve what will be an unprecedented feat.
In 1629, King Charles I of England "erected into a province," all
the land from Albemarle Sound on the north to the St. John's River
on the south, which he directed should be called Carolina. The word
Carolina is from the word Carolus, the Latin form of Charles.
When Carolina
was divided in 1710, the southern part was called South Carolina
and the northern, or older settlement, North Carolina. From
this came the nickname the “Old North State.” Historians
have recorded that the principle products during the early history
of North Carolina were "tar, pitch, and turpentine." It
was during one of the fiercest battles of the War Between the States,
so
the story goes, that the column supporting the North Carolina troops
was driven from the field. After the battle the North Carolinians,
who had successfully fought it out alone, were greeted from the passing
derelict regiment with the question: "Any more tar down in the
Old North State, boys?" Quick as a flash came the answer: "No,
not a bit, old Jeff's bought it all up." "Is that so; what
is he going to do with it?" was asked. "He's going to put
on you-un's heels to make you stick better in the next fight." Creecy
relates that General Lee, upon hearing of the incident, said: "God
bless the “Tar Heel” boys," and from that they took
the name.
(Adapted from Grandfather Tales of North Carolina by R.B. Creecy
and Histories of North Carolina Regiments, Vol. III, by Walter Clark).
source: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/symbols/symbols.htm
