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The Silicon Labs Austin Marathon Relay Issues $100,000 Challenge to Runners (Centre Daily Times)
Posted by TheRunning
Premiering this year, the Roger Beasley Porsche Sub 2 Challenge, powered by RunTex, will award $100,000 to the team that can set a record pace at the Silicon Labs Austin Marathon Relay on September 21 and clock a final time of less than two hours on the 26.2 mile course. If the world's best athletes come together to meet this challenge, it will be the fastest time ever recorded in this type of ...

Gay vs Powell in Gateshead IAAF World Athletics Tour
Posted by Matt
Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell are set for a showdown in Gateshead just a fortnight after the Olympic 100m final.

Wariner has vision of perfect finish
Posted by Matt
It is the perfect scenario for Olympic and world champion Jeremy Wariner, a breathtaking image that he has contemplated countless times. The date is August 21 and he is thundering toward the finish line of the men's 400 metres final at the Beijing Games, roared on by a capacity crowd of 91 000 in the Bird's Nest National Stadium.

Marathon to put limits on walkers (Houston Chronicle)
Posted by TheRunning
No one would argue that doing a marathon is a walk in the park. In fact, it shouldn’t be a walk at all, if you’ve entered the 2009 Chevron Houston Marathon or the Aramco Houston Half Marathon.

NexBank renews its sponsorship of White Rock Marathon (BizJournals)
Posted by TheRunning
NexBank has signed on as a presenting sponsor for the 2008 White Rock Marathon, benefiting the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.

Goodwin named Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year (The Rowlett Lakeshore Times)
Posted by TheRunning
The honors just keep rolling in for Rowlett senior Marquise Goodwin. One month after winning five medals, including three gold, in helping the Eagles win the Class 5A state championship, Goodwin’s success has not slowed down on or off the track.

Wariner: 'I wanted to come out here and make a statement today' IAAF Golden League, Paris
Posted by Matt
By every measure, Jeremy Wariner was quite pleased with his dominating 43.86 performance in the 400m, one of the premiere highlights of the 10th edition of the Meeting Gaz de France Paris Saint-Denis - IAAF Golden League.

The ultimate track nut
Posted by Matt
Specifically, a 1965 issue of Sports Illustrated described Jim Dunaway as a track nut. He was featured in an article on that subspecies of nut often seen with at least one stopwatch hanging from the neck and blessed/cursed with the ability to, say, recite from memory Bob Beamon's long jump series at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Local track and field athletes take the next step (The Mesquite News)
Posted by TheRunning
Months of hard work here locally paid off in a trip to Fort Worth for several Mesquite-based track and field athletes last Saturday. A number of members of the West Mesquite Stampede, Elite of Mesquite and the Friendship Baptist Striders were able to finish in the top six of their respective events at the USATF Southwestern Association Junior Olympic Championships at Duncanville High School.

Their U.S. trials showdown behind them, Wariner, Merritt now looking forward - ÅF Golden League, Rome
Posted by Matt
With their dramatic 400m race at the U.S. Olympic Trials now behind them, reigning Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner and LaShawn Merritt, whose victory at the trials was his second straight win over his rival, are now looking ahead towards their biggest showdown of all at next month’s Olympic Games.

Houston marathon, half-marathon set sellout record (Houston Chronicle)
Posted by TheRunning
A record 18,000 participants have registered to race in the 37th running of the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon, selling out the races 6½ months before the Jan. 18 events.

Five from Men's Track and Field headed to U.S. Olympic Trials (Texas Longhorns)
Posted by TheRunning
Over the next week or so, five University of Texas men's track and field athletes will attempt to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team and a chance to represent the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Leo Manzano ready for U.S. Trials
Posted by Matt
Fresh off an NCAA Championship, Texas distance runner Leo Manzano is aiming to qualify for the United States team in the 1500 meters. Manzano has dominated the college ranks, winning four national championships. Now he hopes that success will translate to the US Trials which start Friday in Eugene, Oregon.

Wariner chasing fractions of a second
Posted by Matt
Jeremy Wariner - My intention is to get on the Wheaties box, Wariner said with a smile. And you do that by being fast. And how fast is possible? My goal is to run 42 seconds, he said without a touch of irony, failing to realize how crazy fast that sounds to normal folks.

Texas finishes fourth at NCAA track and field championships (Austin American-Statesman)
Posted by TheRunning
The University of Texas men's track team, paced by victories from junior Jacob Hernandez in the 800 meters and senior Leo Manzano in the 1,500, moved from 15th to fourth place in the team standings as the NCAA track and field championships roared to a conclusion Saturday.

Inspired by early tragedy, Sally Kipyego is running for a cause
Posted by Matt
Texas Tech's record-breaking distance runner (Sally Kipyego) has clocked the fastest college times in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters this season heading into this week's NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. She has claimed six NCAA championships during her career, with hopes of making the Olympic team in her native country of Kenya later next month.

Born in Mexico, Texas runner Leo Manzano goes after dream for U.S.
Posted by Matt
Leo Manzano runs with world-class speed in bursts of just under a mile, listening to the rhythm of his breathing and footfalls on the track. He thinks about winning another NCAA championship, about making the U.S. Olympic team. And he thinks about his father.

Johnson says he'll return medal
Posted by Matt
Olympic great Michael Johnson says he was "shocked" by former teammate Antonio Pettigrew's doping admission and will return the gold medal the two of them helped the United States win in the 1,600-meter relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. "As difficult as it is, I will be returning it to the International Olympic Committee because I don't want it," Johnson wrote in a column in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph. "I feel cheated, betrayed and let down."

WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN - Flotrack
Posted by Matt
Great read from Mark if Flotrack fame. Mark suggest that the USATF gets a spine and let "Boutique sites" such as Flotrack cover our sport as they do about a 10 times better job covering the sport than NBC ever has. We have never really wanted our sport to be on prime time. We only want access to see the races and see them live if possible. Flotrack is making this possible and we will support them in anyway we can.

Longhorn Darren Brown proud of mile milestone, as he runs in his late father Barry's footsteps
Posted by Matt
When Darren Brown lunged across the finish line at the Texas Relays this spring, he wasn't first or even second in the mile. Still, when he saw his third-place time of 3 minutes, 59.99 seconds, he screamed in disbelief and dropped to his knees. "It was the biggest moment of joy and relief I've ever felt in my life," the University of Texas senior said. By the closest of margins, a mere fraction of an eye blink, he had become half of the first American father/son duo to break the four-minute barrier in the mile.

A single star was part of the Long Expedition (1819), Austin Colony (1821) and several flags of the early Republic of Texas. Some say that the star represented the wish of many Texans to achieve statehood in the United States. Others say it originally represented Texas as the lone state of Mexico which was attempting to uphold its rights under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. At least one "lone star" flag was flown during the Battle of Concepcion and the Siege of Bexar (1835). source: http://www.main.org/boyscout/texas.htm