Tuesday, June 24, 2014

News: USATF Champs, USA Juniors, Letterkenny Sub4, Pro Track/CRA, Under 8 for 2 Miiles

Amanda Smock and Rose Jackson set to compete at USATF Champs HERE.

Five Team USA Minnesota athletes to compete at USATF Champs HERE.

T&F News form charts for men HERE, women HERE. Smock ranked #1 in women's triple jump.

US Junior lists for boy's HERE, girl's HERE

Team USA Minnesota's Eric Finan and Jon Peterson to run in Letterkenny Sub4 Mile race in Ireland in July HERE.

Gopher grad Beth Alford Sullivan named director of track and field and cross country for the University of Tennessee.  One recuit who will be going there in the Fall is Cretin-Derham Hall graduate  Megan Linder. Announcement is HERE

The  finances of "pro track" is HERE. The efforts of CRA to allow collegiate athletes to earn prize money on the roads is HERE.

FloTrack preview of the men's 5K with Hassan Mead is HERE.
The 1500 preview with Will Leer, Garrett Heath, Rob Finnerty, John Simons is HERE.

Let's Run.com preview of women's 1500 is HERE.

A recycled 2011 article on the achievements of Kenyan Daniel Komen, still the only man to break 8 minutes in the two mile is HERE.

Homage to the "nightowls" is HERE. In Finland they have a relay run where teams of runners complete the distance from the North of Finland, Lapland--home of Santa Claus and all his reindeer--, to the finish at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.  It's run in summer when the sun never really sets, it just sits above the horizon, then comes back up again to announce the next day.  We didn't encounter any all-night diners, however...

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