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Usain Bolt Wins 200 Meters in Oslo, Posts Year’s Fastest Time

June 14, 2013 at 03:30pm EST | by NYRR staff

The surprise last night (June 13) at the 2013 ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, wasn’t that Usain Bolt triumphed in his first 200-meter race of the season.
It wasn’t the strongest of fields, and the Jamaican world record-holder’s only real challenger, Churandy Martina of the Netherlands, was disqualified for a false start.
What did raise a few eyebrows, however, was that Bolt finished in a time of 19.79, becoming the first runner this year Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

Kentucky Woman Running Ultramarathon for Uganda

June 12, 2013 at 02:00pm EST | by NYRR staff

Many people run marathons to support their favorite charities—admirable pursuits, without a doubt—but Amy Compston is going the extra mile. Actually, she’s going the extra 23.8 miles.

The 28-year-old ER nurse and athlete from Ashland, KY, is gearing up for November’s nearby Nashville Ultra Marathon 50-Mile, a race she’s using to raise money for mission work in Uganda.

On her newly launched Amy for Africa website, Compston offers several ways to get involved and help her Read More

Categories: Human Interest

"Spirit of the Marathon II" Races to Theaters This Week

June 10, 2013 at 02:30pm EST | by NYRR staff

What compels a person to run 26.2 miles? All sorts of things, and in the new film The Spirit of the Marathon II, due in theaters nationwide on June 12, director Jon Dunham tells the inspirational stories behind seven of the more than 12,000 participants in the 2012 Rome Marathon.

On paper, the selected runners have little in common—they differ in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and reasons for entering the race—but on the Read More

Categories: Human Interest

Nation’s Longest Running Streak Coming to an End

June 07, 2013 at 02:45pm EST | by NYRR staff

Ask Mark Covert what he did on August 9, 1974, the day Richard Nixon resigned, and his answer will likely include the words “I went for a run.”
He’d done likewise on July 21, 1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and in subsequent years, he’s laced up and logged at least one mile on the days Hank Aaron retired, America mourned the Challenger disaster, the Berlin Wall fell, and Barack Obama took the Read More

Categories: Human Interest

Kenyan Bernard Koech Triumphs at San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll Half

June 05, 2013 at 05:00pm EST | by NYRR staff

Bernard Koech has run the fastest half-marathon ever recorded on U.S. soil.

There’s just one problem: He did so on Sunday, June 3, at the San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll Half-Marathon, where the elevation drop from start to finish exceeds record standards set by the IAAF.

That means Koech’s time of 58:41 won’t count as a new U.S. area record, though the Kenyan athlete did set a new area mark for 10 miles, covering that distance in Read More

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