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Ultra Weekend Recap — October 6 – Ultra Running Magazine In this week’s Ultra Weekend Recap, we check in on results from Arkansas, Illinois, California and Utah. Let’s get to it. We start at Camp Ouachita, near Williams Junction, Arkansas, for the Arkansas Traveller 100, the eighth-oldest 100-miler in the United States. This year’s race challenged runners with hot temperatures leading to a lower-than-normal finisher rate. One runner who wasn’t affected by the heat was Brendan Connell, who ran the fastest time in the race’s 33-year history. Connell smashed the previous course record by nearly 28 minutes, winning in 15:08:34. Matt Pruitt ran to second…
Callum and Natasha win Great Scottish Run titles in Glasgow after half marathon runs – Scottish Athletics Photo by Bobby Gavin Callum Hawkins posted his third victory in the Great Scottish Run men’s race – en route to a marathon date in America next month, And Natasha Phillips successfully defended the women’s title she won in the same Glasgow event last year with another strong performance on the roads. Jamie Burns was a local hero in the 10k event with the Shettleston Harriers athlete set to race domestic events following a return from America. Scotland international, Kirsty Walker, was close to her PB as the…
‘I want to be like them’- The childhood race that lit Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s Olympic fire Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has revealed how watching Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards-Ross at the 2008 Olympics inspired her Olympic dreams. Being only eight years old at the time Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone now a two-time Olympic 400m hurdles champion remembers the exact moment she realized what her future held. The year was 2008 and she was glued to her television mesmerized by the women’s 4×400-meter relay final at the Beijing Olympics. What she saw that day—a thrilling race featuring American track icons Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards-Ross—lit a fire within…
3 men have run every Chicago Marathon since 1977. Now in their 70s, they won’t break the streak. By Karina Atkins | katkins@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune UPDATED: October 7, 2024 at 12:50 p.m. Randy Burt, 76, begins a run of 4 miles just after sunrise in his Antioch neighborhood on Oct. 4, 2024. He is one of three people who have run the Chicago Marathon every year since its inception. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) Randy Burt ate pepperoni pizza and drank red wine for dinner on Sept. 24, 1977. The next morning, he put on his old high school gym uniform and went to the starting…
Portland Half Marathon starts eight minutes early, leaving runners scrambling – Canadian Running Magazine “We all traveled to Portland to prepare for the 7:15 a.m. start […] to start it eight minutes early is unthinkable” Photo by: Portland Marathon/FacebookThousands of runners experienced a start-line nightmare on Sunday at the Portland Half Marathon in Portland, Ore., when the race began eight minutes ahead of schedule. While the marathon and 10K events started on time at 7:00 a.m., the half-marathon, scheduled to begin at 7:15 a.m., caught many off guard when the gun went off at 7:07 a.m. The early start left…
‘It set my standards’ – How watching Usain Bolt at the 2008 Olympics fueled a burning desire in Kishane Thompson to cement own legacy Kishane Thompson has explained how watching the likes of Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce dominate at the 2008 Olympics helped shape him as a sprinter. Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson, who recently clinched a silver medal in the men’s 100m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has revealed that the 2008 Olympics were a pivotal moment in shaping his aspirations in the sport. Thompson, whose near-miss for the gold saw him finish just 0.005 seconds behind American Noah Lyles,…