Week 3

Friday, October 5

Planting the Seeds of Success

Teamwork keeps the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project ticking

The Hansons-Brooks Distance Project team meets every morning at 7:30 at either Rochester Hills Duck Pond or Stony Creek Metro Park in Shelby Township, MI. None of the 14-man team is allowed to skip or reschedule. “We don’t have rules,” says Hansons-Brooks co-founder Kevin Hanson. “We have levels of expectations. Everyone meets in the morning at the same time every day whether they are running the same loop or not.” [More]

Thursday, October 4

Meet Brian Sell

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Wednesday, October 3

The Hansons’s Blue-Collar Star

Brian Sell could barely keep his eyes open. With the birth of his and wife Sarah’s first child, Lily Grace, in May, his training load of 160 miles per week, and a 20-hour work week at Home Depot, he was all but sleep-walking.

Chuckling, he slumped on a weight bench in a pair of rumpled blue jeans and red Hanson’s t-shirt and munched on McDonald’s fries. “A lot of people are coming up and saying, not the best timing. But sometimes you can’t plan these things. Besides, if you said you could make the Olympic team, but you couldn’t have your daughter, there is no way I’d trade.” [More]

Tuesday, October 2

The Hansons

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Monday, October 1

The Hansons-Brooks Distance Project

A modern American training camp

On November 3, the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project out of Rochester Hills, MI, will field one out of every 10 men at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon in New York City. That’s 13 qualifiers sponsored by two brothers, Keith and Kevin Hanson, who own four running stores in suburban Detroit.

“Before anything else we were fans,” says Keith, the older Hanson brother, sitting outside one of the four Hansons Running Shops.  “We started when, like many Americans, we were frustrated with where American development of distance running was at the time.”  [More]