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David Roche and Megan Kimmel win USA 10k Trail Running Championships
Aug 27th
Team Press Conferences on YouTube
Aug 17th
Did you get to watch our LIVE Google Hangout on Air press conferences earlier this week? If not, you can watch them on YouTube here:
Senior Team Hangout #1 – Topics: training, race prep, roads vs. trails. Staff +Ellen Miller, +Richard Bolt, +Paul Kirsch – athletes +Joseph Gray,+Tommy Manning, +Stevie Kremer, +Morgan Arritola, +Glenn Randall and from Runner’s World magazine +Jeff Dengate.
Senior Team Hangout Press Conference on YouTube
Junior Team Hangout – Topics: what it means to be on the team, favorite USA uniform piece, training, travel, mountain running vs. XC. Staff +Paul Kirsch,+Richard Bolt – athletes +Billy Fayette, +Kelly Lawson, +Jordan Chavez,+Clare Moretz.
Junior Team Hangout Press Conference on YouTube
Senior Team Hangout #2 – Topics: injuries, shoe selection, nutrition, course More >
Mt. Washington Road Race – play-by-play from the press van
Jun 17th
Yesterday Nancy Hobbs and I (Richard Bolt) road in the press van to cover the action at our one and only selection race for the 2012 men’s US Mountain Running Team. My plan to send live tweets from the race was thwarted by a lack of cell service so we both took photos and documented the mile splits. Here is how the race unfolded at the front from press van #1.
Mile 1:
6:04 – Tim Chichester, Max King, Glen Randall – top 3
Mile 2:
13:40 – Sage Canaday and Joe Gray
Mile 2.5/3000’:
1 – Sage Canaday
2 – Joe Gray
3 – Eric Blake
4 – More >
First Timer Victorious at USA Mountain Running Championships
Jun 16th
Pinkham Notch, NH — The 52nd Mt. Washington Road Race saw a first-time mountain racer Sage Canaday, 26, Boulder, CO, run away from the field to post a time of 58:27, the third fastest time in the history of this 7.6-mile unrelenting climb of New England’s tallest mountain.
Canady’s time was nearly two minutes faster than second-place finisher Joseph Gray, 28, Newcastle, WA, who crossed the line in a person best of 1:00:33. Two-time winner Eric Blake, 33, New Britain, CT, finished in third outsprinting Glen Randall, 25, Mesa, CO, by a mere four seconds. Blake’s time of 1:00:54 was his More >
Qualifying for the 2012 US Mountain Running Team
Jan 1st
Open Athletes qualify for the team by competing at the Team Qualifying Race at the Cranmore Hill Climb on July 21st. The team will then head to Krynica Zdrój, Poland to compete in the 29th Annual World Mountain Running Championships on September 8th.
Team manager Nancy Hobbs, Colorado Springs, CO, team leader Richard Bolt, San Jose, CA, team manager for the juniors Paul Kirsch, Madison, NH, and women’s team manager Ellen Miller, Vail, CO will accompany the team to Poland.
Junior Mountain Team Qualifying InformationJunior team members should see the bottom of this page for complete info on how to qualify. More >
USA Junior Mountain Running Team Announced
Jul 18th
Athletes representing seven states comprise the 2011 U.S. Junior Mountain Running Team (www.usmrt.com). The team will accompany the senior team members as they compete at the 2011 World Mountain Running Championships in Tirana, Albania, on September 11. (http://www.wmrc2011.al)
The athletes include:
JUNIOR MENS TEAM
Oliver Bear Don’t Walk (Age 18, Everson, WA). Oliver currently holds the American Junior 50km record (3:10:07) and has also qualified for the USATF Junior Track and Field Championships in the 10,000 meters in 2010 and 2011. He has a 5K More >
Great Northwest Mountain Run – Mt. Hood
Jul 26th
The second race in the 2010 La Sportiva / USATF-Oregon Mountain Running Series took place this past weekend at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. The 3rd Annual Great Northwest Mountain Run was put on by Kevin Foreman and his excellent XDog Events crew. Yassine Diboun (Portland, OR) won the overall race and collected the $100 cash prize from USATF-Oregon. Complete results will be available soon at: http://www.xdogevents.com/scheduleandresults.html.
The next race in the series will be the 33rd Annual Mt. Ashland Hillclimb on Saturday, August 7. Find race information here: http://www.mtashlandrun.com
Pikes Peak Ascent to host WMRA World Long Distance Challenge: Team USA announced
Jul 23rd
The Pikes Peak Ascent will be held on Saturday, August 21. This year’s race is hosting the 7th WMRA World Long Distance Challenge, an event which brings together athletes from around the globe to compete for team and individual prizes. Last year’s Challenge was held in Austria. Previous hosts included Switzerland, France, and Great Britain. The U.S. also hosted in 2006 with the Pikes Peak Marathon. The event will be hosted in Slovenia in 2011.
Each country participating in the Challenge must designate their team members prior to race day. Teams can include up to five athletes with the top three to score. More >
2010 Team Member Eric Blake wins at Loon Mountain Race,
Jul 9th
Reprinted from the Running Around CT Blog
Mountain runner Eric Blake (recently named the Central CT women’s coach) has a good story now for when people ask him, “What’s the craziest thing that ever happened to you when you were running?”
Last weekend, Blake was running the second to last race in the New England Mountain Running Series, a 5.5-miler at Loon Mountain in New Hampshire. He was in the lead and close to the finish when he came upon a black bear.
Blake wasn’t really paying attention at first; neither was the bear.
But then the two spotted each other. Blake, More >
First Timers Victorious at USA Mountain Running Championships
Jun 25th
Pinkham Notch, NH — The 50th running of the Mt. Washington Road Race saw two newcomers take top honors at the USA Mountain Running Championships. Chris Siemers, 29, Arvada, CO, crossed the finish line after 7.6 miles at an elevation of 6,288-feet above sea level in a time of 1:00:22. Kristen Price, 28, Raleigh, NC, was the top U.S. woman and USA Mountain Running Champion timed in 1:11:13. Price was outdistanced by 23-year old Ethiopian Shewarge Amars who raced to a course record of 1:08:21 breaking the previous mark of 1:10:08 set by Magdalena Thorsell, Sweden, in 1988.
With their wins, Siemers and Price made More >