A sharp and talented fellow, that Kelvin Broad. He preaches the Lydiard gospel.
Amy Hastings left Jack Daniels and Flagstaff for Mammoth. She's doing more drills, weights, form exercises. Blog
Anyone want your advice? Link Check the Comments that follow.
World records on video How cool is that?
Perhaps we really don't have it so tough. Consider former NCAA champ Julius Achon
Though it's all suspect, don't have lab tests after your PR marathon. Story
A Brief Chat with Kara Goucher
Lance for Senator? Q&A
Turn the world into your gym. Link Perhaps turning off the tube/avoiding movies will get you out the door. ...And with the tube off, and still in the self-improvement mode, you might read more like GWB Was struck that Rove and the President both enjoyed, as did I, Team of Rivals Obama liked it too.
Jordan Hasay is the Flotrack and Don's Diary Athlete of the Year. Video No offense to imabeast.
SCV Athletes of the Year: Kaylin Mahoney and Jimmy Kelley
Coach of the Year: Rene Paragas and Chris/Rob Evans (tie)
Upstarts/Shockers of the Year: GV boys and WR girls
Journalist of the Year: Erik Boal
Running Shop of the Year: Running Warehouse (Special sale in progress)
Pizza Shop of the Year: Vincenzo's-Saugus
Stylish running Consider attending Pat Connelly's clinics. He can help you.
Excellence in athletics comes with a cost at UO. Opinion In today's LAT, there is a report that an assistant football coach at USC is making $500,000 per year. The University of Washington is offering him a lateral (same job, same salary). The Preident of the United States makes $400,000 per year.
A friend notes Phil Knight also dropped a ton of buck on UO for a law library. ...But don't we have enough lawyers already? Thanks, Phil! I'll buy Adidas next time..
Consider running and the Matthew effect
Female rats run longer than male rats. Interesting
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~Carl Jung
1. Peter DeLaCerda 14:33
4. Paul DeLaCerda 15:35
9. George Serrano 16:30
12 Chuck Teixeira 16:37
14. Jeff Vannini 16:40
16. Steve Neale 16:52
20 Tracy Rose 17:06, first female
21. Phil DeLaCerda 17:21
22. Carl Fout 17:22
31. Pat Harlan 17:57
34. Don McLean 18:13
60. Tim Lynch 19:11
66. Mike Mench 19:38
74. Joe Hampton 19:55
78. Lisa Sercy 20:00
82. Vince McGrath 20:05
86. Scott Butler 20:10
89. Jerry Cherrington 20:22
93. Scott Dall 20:33
118. Jeff Gilkey 21:43
153. Marilyn Nobile 22:32
And also
Dave Hartman 15:23
Nick Zoetewey (age 11) 21:45
Many of the Run for the Health/Henry "Hold the Mayo" 5Ks were on suspect courses. This edition was accurately measured.
The Signal/Cary Osborne devotes two pages to its All-SCV teams. Kaylin Mahoney and Seth Totten get runner of the year honors. See here. And here.
Others honored:
Boys
Brandon Jauregui
Alexander Nelson
Anthony Pizzo
Thomas McGuan
Konrad Antoniuk
Joey Eledge
Girls
Brianna Jauregui
Anne Randall
Stephanie Bulder
Keri Molt
Amber Murakami
Courtney Wilson
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It's a close call between Seth and Brandon. I'd go with Brando, he having beat Seth in the head-to-head competition, and one of the best in Foothill his entire high school career. And yet Seth, only a junior, developed into a tough performer, and led those GV guys to 11th in state. ...Dongrats to everyone. It was a wonderful year in Foothill. And next year, we should see more Foothill teams make CIF-SS Finals, and at least four going to state.
Fueled by Kit-Kats and Guinness. Story
Ben's back! Brian writes: Saturday, January 17th, is our first Race Series "fun" event of 2009. The event is called the Ben's Ten, named in honor of Ben Franklin's birthday. It is a relatively flat 10 mile out and back course, all on paved bike paths. You MUST complete the 10 mile course in order to earn the 3 available Race Series points. This is an informal event, with no cost, awards or t-shirts.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please bring your own watch, as this event will be self timed. You will self report your time after you finish the event.
The group will be meeting in the Lowe's parking lot (facing Starbucks and near In 'N' Out), on the corner of Newhall Ranch Road and Bouquet Canyon Road. There will be a sign-up table near the starting line, which is at the opening of the bike path on Bouquet Canyon. Please sign in between 6:30-6:45am. There will be three sign-in sheets. The one you use will depend on the time you expect to be able to run. The start will be staggered. Those expecting to run 80 minutes or slower will start at approximately 7:00am. Those expecting to run between 70-80 minutes will start 5 minutes later, while those expecting to run under 70 minutes will start another 5 minutes after that. You'll be given a colored sticker to wear, depending on which group you start with. This will help with the timing as you finish.
Steve Watanabe and Kevin McSweeney have been working hard once again to put this event together for you, so we all owe them a big thank you. Thanks to them, there will be Starbucks coffee and other refreshments available for you after your run. They will also be out there early Saturday morning marking the course and putting up signs you should look for while you're running.
As in the past, this should prove to be a very fun event, plus it will be a good introduction to the weekly Saturday course and regular Saturday runners for those of you who don't normally come out on Saturdays.
Lastly, if there is anyone who will not be running and can help with the sign in sheets and timing, please come by, as your help would be greatly appreciated.
Best? Consider
Q&A with Bernard Lagat
Good viewing. Bill Bowerman video
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. ~Blaise Pascal
On warming up and such stuff. Link
Deena's Christmas card
Fastest High School Miles. List And the girls? Click here.
The Beast shirts will be available soon. In case you missed it, Canyon's Shainia Katz is on our list of one of best in town. Story
Have you run today? I mean, we talkin' about practice
Yes, matter of fact, Don did practice. Very early and with nine hamsters. A Tinman workout! (Do I have to splain 'bout Tinman?) So there we are, mostly successful adults, at the bottom of Garzota, watching this Japanese fellow splain with his hands (is he Italian?) how to do ten hill repeats. What you do is run up half way (next to the T-Bird with the caved-in roof). Turn around and jog back 10 yards. Then turn around and bound up to the second fancy white mail box. Unfortunately, some of us were not listening, and we thought he said bonding. Jeez, did that cause some awkward moments! ...We actually did ten of those. And I'm sorry to report, there were some doubters. After all, has the Tinman been to Garzota? Or more importantly, has anyone seen Paragas and the Saugus gang on Garzota? Hey, how many state champions has Tinman produced? ...I rest my case. And my quads. ...Practice?
Inspiration. Rod Dixon's win in 1983. Video
Dongrats to the Evans brothers and the Golden Valley boys, recognized on DyestatCal for its 11th place achievement at state after last year being unable to move on after the Foothill finals.
Alan Bringham, Storm honcho, writes: Last year, in our Students Off And Running (SOAR) program we had 4 student athletes from Golden Valley High School training to run the Los Angeles Marathon. A 26.2 mile run through the heart of Los Angeles. This year Los Angeles Marathon has been moved from early March, and is now slated for Memorial Day in Late May. Our current SOAR athletes had to bump their training up and will now run the Surf City Marathon held in February. We have grown to 8 athletes, who come from Golden Valley High School, and Academy of the Canyons High School, and we now have our first male athletes in the program.
Sara and Ryan Hall's blog
Practice?
Best novel about distance running? Review No doubt about it.
Camarillo has a good one in Heyden Wooff
"The problem is there are many athletes graduating from schools who are semiliterate.” Story
Q&A with Khadevis Robinson
A new anaerobic workout for self-control? Story
Was Sammy Wanjiru's victory in the Olympic marathon more stunning than the performances of Phelps and Bolt? Consider Maybe, but there are other considerations. Maybe Sammy was prepared to go 2:04 in ideal conditions, and so his excellent time is appropriate for him in the conditions. ...Some athletes are mentally tougher than others, and to them conditions are what you deal with, and not an excuse. ...Some guys are lizards.
A writer for Runner's World, Coach Pat Connelly shares with us some recent Q&A with the RW readers. See Read More.
