Hopkins XC 7th at nxn. Way to represent Hopkins pic.twitter.com/GxK4fVwppD
— HOPKINS X COUNTRY (@hopkinscc) December 5, 2015Carpenter! pic.twitter.com/73eZag7DWy
— Chad Austin (@MinnesotaRunner) December 5, 2015Saturday, December 05, 2015
Bulletin: Jaret Carpenter 4th. Hopkins team 7th at NXN
Jaret Carpenter 4th in 15:09.7. Hopkins team 7th Edina 13th team. Wayzata 14th. Highland Park's Micah Mather 24th in 15:32.3.
Bulletin: Bethany Hasz 5th; Willmar team 9th at NXN
Bethany Hasz 5th in 17:07.1; Willmar 9th team at NXN. Winona Cotter's Grace Ping 14th in 17:25.7 Edina team 16th. Forest Lake's Emma Benner 28thin 17:47.2.
Bethany Hasz finished 5th @NXN @MSHSLjohn @echo_sports @VoiceofAlexMN pic.twitter.com/OtC0gNvLXW
— Doug Hasz (@Dougskettlekorn) December 5, 2015Looks like Hasz and Ping are in the top-10 or so with about 1/2 mile to go. pic.twitter.com/HISIhorROh— Chad Austin (@MinnesotaRunner) December 5, 2015
Friday, December 04, 2015
A Call for Help
Editor's Note:
The following is a message from Mac Wilkins, a prominent member of the Athletic "family" who is reaching out for a friend, a mentor. Stated simply, it is a call for help. This help is anything but simple. It is the sort of situation where all "normal channels" have been tapped and what is needed is beyond the ordinary. In a way it's the chance to be involved in a happy ending of a story that doesn't seemed to be heading in that direction. It is reaching out to the track and running community for assistance in a time of need.
The value of social media is the ability to reach out to large numbers of people in the hope that there is someone out there who can make this sort of sacrifice. All the info you need is below. Thanks for reading and any help you can provide.
Friends,
This message is a special request for help.
My dear friend of 35 years now has End Stage Kidney Disease
and desperately needs a life-saving donor kidney, blood type “O”.
He is working with Renewal, a remarkable nonprofit organization.
They have found an email campaign to be an effective technique
and it's best to cast as wide a net as possible.
Therefore, I am sending each of you this message in the hope
that you may know of someone who is able and willing to make
the incredible gift of donating a kidney in order to save a life.
To learn how you can save a life or for more information about
kidney donation,
Contact Renewal at 718 431-9831 or email R1013@renewal.org.
Renewal's website is www.renewal.org.
All inquiries to Renewal are strictly confidential and without any obligation.
They can also put you in touch with others who have donated a
kidney and are willing to share their experience.
All medical costs for evaluation and surgery are covered by the
recipient’s insurance.
Ancillary costs such as travel expenses and lodging, may be covered
by Renewal.
Please send this post to people with whom you email.
You never know whether or not there is someone who will
respond to this urgent need.
The following is a message from Mac Wilkins, a prominent member of the Athletic "family" who is reaching out for a friend, a mentor. Stated simply, it is a call for help. This help is anything but simple. It is the sort of situation where all "normal channels" have been tapped and what is needed is beyond the ordinary. In a way it's the chance to be involved in a happy ending of a story that doesn't seemed to be heading in that direction. It is reaching out to the track and running community for assistance in a time of need.
The value of social media is the ability to reach out to large numbers of people in the hope that there is someone out there who can make this sort of sacrifice. All the info you need is below. Thanks for reading and any help you can provide.
Friends,
This message is a special request for help.
My dear friend of 35 years now has End Stage Kidney Disease
and desperately needs a life-saving donor kidney, blood type “O”.
He is working with Renewal, a remarkable nonprofit organization.
They have found an email campaign to be an effective technique
and it's best to cast as wide a net as possible.
Therefore, I am sending each of you this message in the hope
that you may know of someone who is able and willing to make
the incredible gift of donating a kidney in order to save a life.
To learn how you can save a life or for more information about
kidney donation,
Contact Renewal at 718 431-9831 or email R1013@renewal.org.
Renewal's website is www.renewal.org.
All inquiries to Renewal are strictly confidential and without any obligation.
They can also put you in touch with others who have donated a
kidney and are willing to share their experience.
All medical costs for evaluation and surgery are covered by the
recipient’s insurance.
Ancillary costs such as travel expenses and lodging, may be covered
by Renewal.
Please send this post to people with whom you email.
You never know whether or not there is someone who will
respond to this urgent need.
Gideon
is a two time Olympian, a discus thrower.
of
course.
But he is better known as the This is what athletes use to correct flaws and perfect the most efficient movement for their sport.
Gideon's
analysis helped me dramatically improve my discus technique.
Gideon's
software is available to schools at no cost.
This is how coaches can use high speed cameras, computers and Gideon's software to "see" what they can't see with their naked eyes.
This
is also how people with prosthetics naturalize and correct their walking
gates after losing a limb.
Gideon's
story is a
work in progress, literally and literarily.
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Gideon has contributed so much to so many people.
And he has so much work left to do!
Thanks
for your help,
Mac
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Bruce Leasure USATF MN Volunteer of the Year
Congratulations to Bruce Leasure who was the USATF Minnesota Volunteer of the Year. #USATF15 pic.twitter.com/jD6ejutCXF
— USATF Minnesota (@USATFMN) December 4, 2015Thursday, December 03, 2015
Jeremy Karger-Gatzow is the New Track Coach at St. John's
A bit dated but relevant now as indoor track season begins. Former University of Minnesota Morris track and XC coach Jeremy Karger-Gatzow is the new track coach at St. John's. Details HERE
Qualifying Standards for 2016 World Mountain Running Championships
Qualifying Standards for US team for 2016 World Mountain Running Championships HERE
Exciting MUT meetings in Houston @usatf @USAultrarunning @usmrt pic.twitter.com/5jLBXcTHuQ
— Nancy Hobbs (@NanoOnTrails) December 3, 2015
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Critics Contend that USATF Whistleblower Policy Discourages Reporting of Abuses
Critics say that USATF Whistleblower policy discourages members from filing complaints. Policy is HERE
USSkyrunning Series Proposal to Ban All Runners Convicted of Doping
USSkyrunning Series proposal to ban all runners Convicted of Doping HERE.
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
More Controversy About USATF Personnel Decisions
More controversy about USATF personnel decisions HERE
Pole Vaulting: How a Vaulting Pole is Made
Every seen a pole vault pole born?
https://t.co/e82xEevR2E
— Gill Athletics (@GillAthletics) November 25, 2015Petition to the USATF Board of Directors to Reserve Sports Honors for "Clean" Athletes
A Look Back at the Gopher Women's XC Season
Take a look back at the highlights of the #Gophers' 2015 cross country season! https://t.co/XitWWzVYTb pic.twitter.com/0s17WDawLU
— Minnesota W TrackCC (@GopherWCCTF) December 1, 2015Sunday, November 29, 2015
Training Advice from Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan
Relax your way to success: Training Advice from Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan HERE.
Spear Chucking: How Mac Wilkins Became a Discus Thrower
Last week the European Javelin Symposium was held in Finland. If you've ever been to a big meet in Scandinavia you know how much the fans and the athletes appreciate the event. While it was a big surprise that this year a Kenyan won the gold and an Egyptian the silver in the men's javelin, it was no surprise that their coach is a Finn.
The takeaway theme from the Symposium was that concentrating on technique is currently believed to be the way to achieve the best results in the event. That brings up a story 1976 Olympic champion in the discus, Mac Wilkins told last year at the Minnesota track coaches clinic. We had been talking about his early career and Mac noted that he started as a javelin thrower.
More accurately, the javelin appeared to be his best event. When he got to Oregon, it looked like his future would be in the javelin. The javelin was his "natural" event, said Wilkins, and is the toughest field event in terms of what it requires from your body. Javelin throwers put their entire body to work in launching the spear. It was Wilkins' technique, or should I say, defects in that technique, that ended his "spear chucking" career.
His sophomore year, he was out throwing with his coach, Bill Bowerman, observing when his elbow "blew." There was no "Tommy John surgery"/repair back then in the early '70s, said Wilkins, so, instead of being Olympic champion in the javelin, Mac continued his career as a discus thrower and shot putter. He won national championships in both events, but the discus was where he had the most success. He began beating the top discus throwers in the world.
One of them, Sweden's Ricky Bruch, invited Mac to come to Europe and throw on the circuit. Bruch figured that an American competing with the Europeans would increase the visibility of the event and that both he and Wilkins could get more money from the meet promoters.
On May 1, 1976, Mac broke the world record for the event three times. He went on to defeat his friend and rival, the GDR's Wolfgang Schmidt, in Montreal for the Olympic gold medal. Not bad for spear chucker.
The takeaway theme from the Symposium was that concentrating on technique is currently believed to be the way to achieve the best results in the event. That brings up a story 1976 Olympic champion in the discus, Mac Wilkins told last year at the Minnesota track coaches clinic. We had been talking about his early career and Mac noted that he started as a javelin thrower.
More accurately, the javelin appeared to be his best event. When he got to Oregon, it looked like his future would be in the javelin. The javelin was his "natural" event, said Wilkins, and is the toughest field event in terms of what it requires from your body. Javelin throwers put their entire body to work in launching the spear. It was Wilkins' technique, or should I say, defects in that technique, that ended his "spear chucking" career.
His sophomore year, he was out throwing with his coach, Bill Bowerman, observing when his elbow "blew." There was no "Tommy John surgery"/repair back then in the early '70s, said Wilkins, so, instead of being Olympic champion in the javelin, Mac continued his career as a discus thrower and shot putter. He won national championships in both events, but the discus was where he had the most success. He began beating the top discus throwers in the world.
One of them, Sweden's Ricky Bruch, invited Mac to come to Europe and throw on the circuit. Bruch figured that an American competing with the Europeans would increase the visibility of the event and that both he and Wilkins could get more money from the meet promoters.
On May 1, 1976, Mac broke the world record for the event three times. He went on to defeat his friend and rival, the GDR's Wolfgang Schmidt, in Montreal for the Olympic gold medal. Not bad for spear chucker.
Shot Put Olympic Champ Adam Nelson Writes about Athlete Rights and How to Grow the Sport
Shot Put Olympic Champ Adam Nelson Writes about Athlete Rights and How to Grow the Sport HERE.
Wayzata Earns at Large Bid to NXN
Wayzata Boys XC club receive at-large #NXN Team invite - 7th team appearance in 9 years at XC national Championship pic.twitter.com/3NyBGjIMPH
— Wayzata Track&Field (@WayzataTrack) November 29, 2015
List of At Large teams HERE.
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